<h1>HEPA Filters: Why They’re Better For Allergies & Asthma Than Electrostatic Air Filtration</h1>

A lot of attention has been drawn to electrostatic type air cleaners such as Oreck and others that use electrified metal plates to attract pollutants, thus removing them from the indoor air. While they do remove a good percentage of particles, the efficiency of such ‘ionic filters’ averages around 85%, leaving about 15% of dust, mold spores, and bacteria to float in the air. Also, this number goes down once the plates become saturated or coated with particles, which leaves more pollutants in the air

 

HEPA filters on the other hand, use a woven fiber matrix to consistently trap over 99% of all of these particles, and the number never goes down. Now, how fast the unit can clean the air in the room can go down some when the filter is full, due to decreased airflow, but the amount of particles removed is a consistent 99.97%—and that can be really important for those with allergies, asthma, or respiratory problems, infections, COPD, etc. One gram of dust contains about 200 living dust mites (one of the strongest allergens known to man) and literally millions of bacteria—no one needs to be breathing 15% of that!

 

Air purifiers with HEPA filters are typically quieter and don’t have any electrical ‘popping’ noise as some electrostatic air cleaners. Don’t be fooled—if you want the cleanest air possible and don’t want to breathe that 15% or more of bacteria, mold, dust mites, or other particles, stick with HEPA air purifier filters, air purifiers with HEPA filters, and be sure to replace the HEPA filters in your air cleaner and vacuums on time or a little before to ensure that dust and other pollutants aren’t blowing out around the filter, making indoor air pollution worse.

 

At Air Purifiers and Cleaners.com, we offer only the best manufacturer-made replacement HEPA filters for Aller Air, Austin Air, Blueair, Winix, Tiger, Vapor Eze, Stadler Form portable air purifiers, as well as HEPA filters for Electrocorp industrial air cleaners. And since we’re an online store with low overhead, that means cheap discount prices and free shipping for you every day. If you have a question or don’t see the replacement HEPA filter you need for your air purifier, give us a call toll-free at 1-800-701-2513 and one of our experts will be happy to assist you!

 

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