Are ionic air cleaners effective for allergy to tree & plant pollen?

I'm in Florida and the air is full of pollens including lots of live oak. Is the ionic air cleaner effective in reducing allergic reaction? Are the filter types more effective?

Are ionic air cleaners effective for allergy to tree %26amp; plant pollen?
I am sure this will tick off the ionic breeze owners but here you go any way; as one other person suggested, do a google on it and see what you find. Consider this, these contraptions, in principle, generate positive ions that are released into the air, right, okay, but how are they distributed around the house? My point is that they aren't. Yes, these ions can be attracted to and will attach to a number of things floating in the air but only upon contact and only if these particles find their way into the room with the machine and within a few feet of the machine. Those things can't produce enough ions to cover your whole house, much less an entire room, and if they did it would be dangerous and unhealthy.


In order to cover the whole house you would have to have those contraptions in every room, running all the time, and that would create too much of a good thing and would be expensive.


If you want to really help the situation you should consider something like a hepa filter air cleaner. There are a number of them on the market. You buy them based on the cubic feet per minute of air that they can cycle thru them. I haven't looked at them in a while but lets just say you have a 1500sq foot ranch house and you want to clear as much of the air as possible. Well, you would need a filter unit that was able to filter 12000 cubic feet of air every few hours or so. In other words, you want a machine or combination of machines that are able to circulate and filter all the air in the house within a certain amount of time. If you have one small machine and it will only filter about 2000 cubic feet in a day, well, that is fine for a small room, but if you want to do the whole house it will take days just to clear the air one time and that will not be effective. Do a google for air purifiers and hepa filters, you will see lots of stuff and lots of prices.


Enough said, just my opinion but ionic cleaners are a big waste of money. They will help clear the air directly around them of some allergens, but if you really want clean air you are going to have to move the air around then filter it. And to do that with the Ionic machine you will have to run around the room with it over your head.





Best of luck.
Reply:There's much controversary over the Ionic Air Cleaners. They can sometimes do more harm than good.


Do a google search on them.
Reply:I have one and after first week i was amazed at all the crap it cleaned out of the air.......i have the tower model Ionic Brezze cost $250 but man i can breathe so good in my house its worth every penny