Study Finds Purifier Can Help Asthmatics
Baku, November 26 (AZERTAC). A new air purification machine that cleans the air while asthma sufferers sleep reportedly can drastically reduce the symptoms they experience during the course of a day.
According to Andrew Hough of the Telegraph, the $6,000-plus device is a “temperature controlled laminar airflow treatment” system known as Protexo, which “filters out airborne triggers such as dust particles and mites, pet hairs and powders that cause irritation and inflammation of the lungs.”
Hough says that researchers who have tested the device say that it “significantly” decreases symptoms such as wheezing and tightness in the chest. Furthermore, Jenny Hope of the Daily Mail adds that asthmatics participating in a study of the purifier`s effectiveness reported “huge” improvements in their quality of life and were “less likely to be admitted to hospital.”
The year-long study, which was led by Imperial College London Pediatrics Professor and St. Mary`s Hospital Consultant Pediatrician John Warner, discovered that European patients who were between the ages of seven and 70 and representing six countries, reported a
15% increase in quality of life scores versus subjects who were given a fake machine.
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