I’ve read that Ozone-producing air purifiers can sanitize a home, kill mold and bacteria, and nutralize odors, but I have also read that ozone itself can be a health hazard. I was wondering, which would be a greater risk to health? Having dust mites, mold, bacteria and other allergens in your home, or a buld up of Ozone?

My family has been having allergy issues, chronic sore throats and sinus infections and I am seriously considering an Ozone air purifier with UV light to keep upstairs in the bedrooms to help us all sleep better (we all get worse during the night and also we live in a 1 1/2 story so it’s just 2 bedrooms upstairs and no cold air return to circulate the air)

But I have also read that Ozone can be dangerous and can cause the same problems we are already currently facing! So what’s the deal?

This is all brought about because my in-laws just purchased an EdenPure Air Purifier with UV and Ozone and my MIL says her house already smells and feels so different! I want to try it and while looking it up online, I found a lot of bad Reviews based on excessive Ozone output… I don’t know much about this stuff, so can anyone help me? Thanks so much!
Also, would it be best to have one of these run upstairs during the day, then put downstairs at night? We really need help in cleaning the air of our home! No smokers, but we have a cat and a dog.

I’ll assume you are north of the equator, and you are experiencing seasonal allergies.

Ozone is always in the everyday world around us. Ozone is produced naturally by your body when fighting infections. Ozone is also known to:
- destroy lung tissues
- kill red blood cells
- cause plaque formation that leads to heart attack and stroke
- possibly cause the misfolding of proteins that lead to some forms of Alzheimer’s
- it suppresses your immune system for a time, since it thinks the infection is elsewhere / handled-by-others (really bad for HIV positive…)

If you get the ozone feature, make sure it can be turned on and off separately, and make sure it can be run on a timer. Ozone also ages fabrics, dyes, and the padding in mattresses and under Carpets.

No one has yet died of ozone inhalation. I have breathed very high concentrations of ozone gas (raging headaches, fatigue), and I am still alive. My hair loss occurred before exposure. ;>)

Keep your doors and windows closed. Keep rugs at each entrance (even pets), and clean them daily. Use a HEPA filter on each floor, maybe more than one per floor. Use ionizers as needed, preferably when no one is home. Pets are smart enough to go elsewhere, assuming you gave them pet doors they know how to use. Use good air conditioner filters.

In yoga, you are (sometimes) trained to be able to snort water (warm, lightly saline) up your nose, to flush out the sinuses. You might want to practice this too.

The best solution is to move to a completely different climate with different plants, one your immune system does not over-react to catching pollen from. And if you do this, you can never come back to this place in the spring, or the symptoms will quickly recur, and be as bad or worse.