Do you recommend air purifier in bedrooms and office/workplaces of patients with chronic lung disease?
Do you recommend this in asthmatics only or others (e.g., ILD)?
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Pulmonology · Mayo Clinic
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As with many answers within medicine, the answer is "it depends." Asthmatics or individuals with airway-related environmental triggers such as COPD overlap syndrome may benefit from air purification systems -- either as part of a central HVAC system or utilized as a portable unit used within sleepin...
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Pulmonology · Tufts Medical Center
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Dr. @Dr. First Last makes a number of good points that deserve emphasis such as that air purifiers do not make up for other sins such as cigarette smoking in the home or retaining animals that are demonstrably allergenic. A lot of these points are relevant to COPD too, especially if biomarkers such ...
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