Recommendations for the use of residential air-cleaning devices in the treatment of allergic respiratory diseases.
In an attempt to recommend standards for room air-cleaning devices, a committee reviewed (1) the types and performance characteristics of available domestic air-cleaning devices, (2) the available data on concentrations of allergens in the indoor air, and (3) the studies that have examined the health effects of the use of indoor air-cleaning devices. Absense of adequate data on the clinical relevance of indoor ambient allergen levels, as well as the effect of air-cleaning devices on these levels, plus a general lack of health effects by these devices in published double-blind studies precluded any firm recommendations for their use. It was clear, however, that use of room air-cleaning devices in the absence of other forms of environmental control was not reasonable.
Nelson
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HS
National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, Denver, Colo. 80206.
Hirsch
S R
SR
Ohman
J L
JL
Platts-Mills
T A
TA
Reed
C E
CE
Solomon
W R
WR
D000388:Air; D000389:Air Conditioning / Q000592:standards*; D000393:Air Pollutants; D000485:Allergens / Q000032:analysis; D004581:Electronics; D004784:Environmental Monitoring; D005374:Filtration; D006801:Humans; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000628:therapy*
D000393:Air Pollutants; D000485:Allergens