What Are Some Symptoms of Poor Indoor Air Quality?
Poor indoor air quality symptoms depend on the particular contaminant and are sometimes mistaken for allergies, stress, colds, or flu. These associated symptoms include coughing, sneezing, fatigue, dizziness, headaches, nose bleeds, sore throat, and upper respiratory congestion. Your air quality can also contribute to the development or the exacerbation of some more serious conditions including infections, lung diseases, asthma, and heart disease.
On average, people spend 90 percent of their time indoors but don’t know that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outside air. The EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has indoor air quality ranked among the top five environmental dangers to public health. It is linked to severe asthma and allergy development in children and heart problems and lung cancer in children and adults.
