If you have a dirty filter it may be actually making your air quality worse (in some ways) than just not running the filter at all. It seems like bacteria caught in the filter are dying and releasing endotoxins, which are small enough to escape the filter and then are sent throughout the environment.
> If you have a dirty filter it may be actually making your air quality worse (in some ways) than just not running the filter at all.
I might have to check the air filter. I’ve been having the worst sinus issues I’ve ever had outside a sinus infection. My eyes constantly tear up, my nose will on occasionally completely shuts, and I’ve been having back to back sneezing attacks.
I originally chalked it up to seasonal allergies, as pollen count is quite high, but I’ve been suspicious of indoor air quality as well. To add to the confusion I got COVID around the same time it started.
The older I get, the more doctors I see, the less each doctor individually does, the more evident that the rapacious copay of my job-provided health insurance will drive me to less health care, perhaps obviating the need for any health care at all, though my executor will be left holding the bag of paying off outstanding bills.
From what I understood of the article, disinfectant might not do much, because it's dead bacteria which are releasing these toxins as their cell walls rupture. Unless it's a disinfectant which turns these toxins into something less dangerous, lysol won't do much.
