Suffering from headache, eye and throat irritation, fatigue, nausea, respiratory effects or allergic reactions?
All these symptoms can be caused by poor air quality and the related pollutants!
Measurement and analysis are very important to prevent health problems in buildings and their surroundings. Indoor air quality monitoring the best way to gain necessary information.
Understanding and controlling common indoor pollutants (PM – Particulate Matter, CO2, VOC – Volatile Organic Compounds, HCHO – Formaldehyde, NO2, O3, …) can help to reduce your risk of indoor health concerns.
Health effects from indoor air pollutants may be experienced immediately during exposure or shortly after. In few cases, effects of air pollution show symptoms years later, e.g. COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) monitoring is a popular service with Aristoteles Consulting clients who recognize the importance of staff well-being to business success.
Read more about Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) and how we can help to improve it.
Effects of poor indoor air quality
Experts stress the importance of comfortable working and living environments, but air quality is often ignored. Indoor pollutants affect customers and employees at work, as well as adults and children in their homes. Poor air quality is linked to higher sick day rates and reduced productivity.
Some health effects may occur shortly after a single exposure or repeated exposure to a pollutant.
These include irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, headache, dizziness and fatigue. Such immediate effects are usually short-lived and treatable. These symptoms appear to be linked to time spent in a building, though no specific illness or cause can be identified. They are often summarised as sick building syndrome (SBS).
Sometimes the treatment simply eliminates the exposure of the individual to the source of the pollution, if it can be identified. Soon after exposure to some indoor air pollutants, symptoms of certain diseases such as asthma may appear.
Poor indoor air quality has effects on: