Asthma - Does anyone have asthma & have a UV light in central air??

6 years ago

Do any of you have asthma and have a UV light installed above your evaporator coils in your central air unit? Does or did it bother you?

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maifleur01
6 years ago
The UV light is to kill bacteria in the air as it passes through not to remove particles from the air.
peabody1
Original Author
6 years ago
maifleur01, Yes, that is what that say. Also, adding a good media filter to catch those particles was to be part of it. I have heard that UV lights put off ozone and ozone is not supposed to be good for people with asthma. I just wondered if anyone with asthma had one of these installed and how they do with it.
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Peabody, ozone can cause problems but most are caused by the conversion of things like gasoline fumes and other pollutants by the sun. The sun is the greatest generator of UV light in this universe. Which is why there are ozone alerts in big cities. There are so many triggers to asthma that for me to say if the UV light would not effect you would be wrong but if your house has good ventilation so that the air is refreshed there is less likelihood of a problem.

Depending on what triggers your asthma and the knowledge that the amount of ozone generated in your cleaner is probably less that what is generated when the sun comes through the windows and hits other pollutants cleaning of the air passing through your cleaner is probably a good thing. If you are wondering about "other pollutants"? Most things in your house as they fade or are cleaned and the cleaner dries release some type of particles, dry or moist into the atmosphere of your house.

https://www3.epa.gov/region1/airquality/oz_prob.html

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