Indoor air cleaners ease asthma symptoms in children living with smokers, study suggests
Monday, August 1, 2011 - 16:31
in Health & Medicine
Children who have asthma and live with smokers shows that indoor air cleaners can greatly reduce household air pollution and lower the rates of daytime asthma symptoms to those achieved with certain anti-inflammatory asthma drugs. Although the air cleaners improved the overall air quality in homes, they did not reduce air nicotine levels and did not counter all ill effects of secondhand smoke, the researchers warn.