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In 1906 a Viennese doctor by the name of Baron Clemens Von Pirquet coined the term "allergy" from the Greek "allos" meaning changed or altered state, and "ergon" meaning reaction or reactivity. 

Von Pirquet used the term to describe an altered reaction he had observed in patients, which he associated to the influence of external factors, know as an allergen, on the immune system. 

Of course allergies can also be caused by foods, drugs, bee stings, and a whole host of other stimuli, but here we are only going to address airborne allergies.

First; Kill the bacteria, mold, and dust mites in the air and on surfaces in a room.

Second; Filter the air and physically remove allergens such as dust, dust mites, pollen, and pet dander from your home.
 

How to kill bacteria, mold, and dust mites.

To kill the mold and bacteria in a room an ozone generator may be used. 
There are two ways to use ozone. The first is a low level of air purification level of ozone. 
This will kill some of the airborne bacteria and mold, and a small amount of surface bacteria and mold.
A low, safe amount of air purification ozone can greatly help in the killing of airborne mold and bacteria.  But that is not the complete, or even the best use of ozone.

The second use of ozone is to blast High Ozone Shock Treatments into unoccupied rooms.

This is the ONLY way that you can be assured of killing most of the mold and bacteria in a room.

Low air purification levels of ozone, no matter how long they are maintained, can NEVER totally sanitize a room of bacteria and mold.

That can ONLY be done if the ozone reaches a high, toxic level of ozone in an UNOCCUPIED room.

You MUST to achieve a high, toxic level of ozone in order to kill mold and bacteria.  If the ozone does not reach a toxic level, then by that very definition of the word toxic, it will never be able to kill all the mold and bacteria in a room. 

These High Ozone Shock Treatments are to be done in rooms unoccupied of living beings. 
The user turns the ozone generator up to its maximum level, sets the timer for an hour, or two, and only returns to that room an hour or two after the machine has shut itself off.
In that way the user is never exposed to the high levels of ozone, but the bacteria and mold may be killed by the ozone.

Since ozone is made up entirely of oxygen, and breaks back down to only oxygen in a short time the user is not exposed to any leftover pesticides which may further trigger other types of allergies. 
In that sense ozone is one of the most safest toxic compounds know to man.

It is very important that whatever air purifier is used that it have the ability to kill the mold and bacteria by means of a High Ozone Shock Treatment.

Small ionizers, and low "safe ozone level" ozone generators will NEVER be able to sanitize a room of mold and bacteria because they do not have the power to perform these unoccupied room High Ozone Shock Treatments. 

There are many devices out there that draw air into a special "killing chamber" meant to kill mold and bacteria. 
While these machines may be able to accomplish that feat, think about this: 
They will ONLY be able to sanitize the air that they draw into them, and they will have NOability to sanitize the ENTIRE ROOM or kill surface bacteria and mold because they have no ability to fill the ENTIRE ROOM with a high toxic level of ozone blasted into an UNOCCUPIED ROOM.

Since some of these small air purifiers have very small fans in them it would take a very long time to draw all the air that exists in a room into them.

Such devices may not only just be useless, they may actually be counter productive.
That is because they give the user a false sense of security in thinking they have actually killed the mold and bacteria when in reality they may have only killed a minute percentage of the fungi.

While our units have small fans as well, they are emanating ozone into the room to kill it everywhere in the room, NOT just in a special "killing chamber" like other types of air purifiers.

Also note that UV Ultraviolet air purifiers will NOT kill mold.

UV Ultraviolet lamps are ineffective in killing mold and bacteria.
This is a direct quote from General Electric, the manufacturer of such lamps states:
"Once mold has already formed, ultraviolet energy will NOT eliminate it."

Click Here to read more about the problems with ultraviolet air purifiers.

While ionizer collector plates may catch  5-10% of the dust passing by them, the majority of the dust is being electronically glued to your walls floor and ceiling.  While the dust might be removed from the air, it's NOT being removed from the room.

Ionizers simply move these pollutants around your home and make the allergy problem worse.

Our XT-400, and XT-800 ozone generators can be used for air purification with low ozone levels meant to kill airborne bacteria and mold.  But these units are much more than simple air purifiers.  They can also be used to give powerful High Ozone Shock Treatments to unoccupied areas to help sanitize ENTIRE ROOMS, not just what passes through them as most air purifiers do. These units have built in "Burst Timers" for air purification, plus the high output, and a "Countdown Timer" needed to perform bacteria killing in unoccupied rooms. These machines can be used in bedrooms, living rooms, and offices for both air purification and High Ozone Shock Treatments. They are capable of high ozone treatments into rooms that are about 400-500 sq. ft. CLICK HERE to learn more about these amazing air purifiers.

Air-Zone® XT-400 Ozone Air Purifier WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL!!! Fully variable ozone output from 13 mg.hr. to 400 mg.hr. US Patented Ozone Elements  Fan Speed Control, Built in Timer Click Here to read more XT-400 Price; $329.99

Air-Zone® XT-800 WIRELESS REMOTE CONTROL!!! DOUBLE POWER AIR PURIFIER Fully variable ozone output from 13 mg.hr. to 800 mg.hr. US Patented Ozone Elements  Fan Speed Control, Built in Timer The XT-800 also features a Half Power Switch.  This enables the user to switch off one transformer of the unit essentially turning it into an XT-400. This is especially useful for lowering the total output in smaller areas. Click Here to read more XT-800 Price; $439.99

If a bacterial or mold contamination is very high a larger ozone generator may be required to give very strong High Ozone Shock Treatments to unoccupied rooms. Our XT-2000, XT-4000, and XT-6000 ozone generators can output very high levels of ozone for total sterilization of both small and large rooms. They have built in countdown timers so that the user can set the machine to a very high level, leave the room, and only return hours after the machine has shut itself off when the ozone has returned to a non toxic level. While these units can perform a better high ozone shock than our small XT-400 and XT-800 models they can never be used as air purifiers because their ozone outputs cannot be lowered to a safe air purification of ozone.  These machines are ONLY unoccupied room blasters. Our XT-14000 and XT-28000 machines can provide extremely high levels of ozone meant to remediate very severe mold problems. CLICK HERE to learn more about these amazing ozone blasters.

The last thing you would EVER want to use to combat an allergy would be an Ionizer. Ionizers will only make allergy symptoms worse. Ionizers DO NOT remove dust from your home. They may sometimes remove it from the air, but all they really do is MOVE dust and allergens around the room, NOT REMOVE it from the room.

Moving the dust, pollen and other allergens around to different areas of your home is not going to help your allergies.

Ionizers simply negatively charge the air's ions so that floating dust particles will cling to a surface in the room, much in the way static electricity does. 

Ionizers are very popular for a couple of reasons.  First they are a quick sell.  The customer smells the nice fresh air coming out of them.  That can only be a good thing right? Not really. 

Although ionization can give a temporary clean odor, and can get the dust out of the air, the dust HAS to accumulate SOMEWHERE.  Maybe on those little collector plates they have on them? 
That's certainly what the sellers of these devices would like you to believe. 

Anyone who has ever had an ionizer knows about the "Black Wall Syndrome" where the wall will develop a black halo of dust around the machine.  Simply moving the dust and bacteria to the walls is not a very good solution.

Some ionizers claim to use special dust collector plates that catch all the dust.
While ionizer collector plates may catch  5-10% of the dust passing by them, the majority of the dust is being electronically glued to your walls floor and ceiling.  While the dust might be removed from the air, it's NOT being removed from the room or the home.

If this is true, and ionizers really don't work all that well, why are ionizers being sold everywhere, including expensive TV and radio ads?

This leads us to the second reason they are so popular. Ionizers are very easy and cheap to make. 
We know this because we are manufacturers, and we know how much it costs to make these types of goods. 
They can be made with just a few dollars in parts.  In fact they easily can be made for just  $5.00-$15.00 worth of parts. 
Some companies sell their ionizers for $400.00 and more. Any way you slice it, that's a TREMENDOUS profit ratio.

So combine the fact that an ionizer is an easy sell to the customer, and the fact that there are obscene profits in selling them, it's no wonder they are so popular.

While ionizers seller will swear to you up and down that each one has a better technology and their ionizers really work, an ionizer is an ionizer, no matter what they say.
All they really do is move dust around your home.  None of them actually remove any dust from your home.

The real motivating factor in ionizer sales is GREED.  Plain and simple.  If we wanted to sell ionizers for huge profits we could easily do that.
It would be a lot less hassle than for us having to write all these web pages and explain why what we sell really works, and back that up with actual proof.
We choose to take the high road. We make less money than ionizer sellers.  It's a lot harder for us to educate and convince people what we have truly does work better.
In the long run we feel it is the right thing to do.
If you would like to read more about ionizers, and all the problems that go with them please read our page: Why Ionization Doesn't Work

The ONLY way to truly remove dust and other airborne allergens from the room is to filter them out of the air.  Preferably with a high quality HEPA Filter.

Many of you have had experiences with cheap, store bought, HEPA filters and feel they do not work very well.  You're completely right, they don't work very well. 
Many have low CFM (Cubic Feet per Minute) air flows.  An air filter can only filter as much air as it can draw into it.
If an air filter has a low CFM rating it is simply not going to move, and therefore not filter and clean much air.

A good HEPA filter also needs a substantial amount of filter material such as cloth, carbon, and
odor removing zeolite in it to also work well. The further the air has to travel through the filter material, the better it will be filtered.
Many store bought HEPA filters have only 10 square feet of HEPA filter material and a pound or less of carbon in them.  These filters cannot filter as well as a HEPA filter with 30 or 60 sq.ft. of filter material and 15 pounds of carbon in them like the kind we sell.

Store bought HEPA filters bought just don't work as well as a larger HEPA filters, and they require filter changes more often than one with a properly sized filter.

Although the initial expense of one of these store bought filters is cheaper, after a year the user will find that the constant cost of replacement filters will end up costing the user more than if they simply bought a properly sized unit to begin with. 
That combined with the fact that these smaller air filters will never do as good a job as a real hospital grade filter, the "bargain" of the cheap store price turns out to be a bad investment.
 

Austin Air makes some of the finest HEPA air filters made. Austin Air True HEPA filtration units effectively filter dust and pet dander out of the air.  They do much better job than those sold in department, or home improvement stores because of their higher air exchange ratio.  They use up to 15 pounds of activated charcoal and 80 feet of true HEPA medical filter medium. They meet HEPA standards, trapping 99.97% of all particulates larger than 0.3 microns  Please Click Here to learn more about our Austin Air True HEPA Air Filters.

Austin Air True HEPA Filters

Will the devices we sell cure your allergies?  No, allergies cannot be cured. But our air purifiers can help kill and remove the triggers of airborne allergies.
The different types of air purifiers we sell can help kill mold and bacteria, and remove the dust, pollen, and pet hair that may be floating in the air of your home.  The killing and removal of these allergy triggers can only help to make the allergy sufferer feel better.  It can only have a positive effect on the home environment to kill mold and bacteria, and remove airborne allergens.

What's NOT going to help your allergies are cheap gimmick air purifiers.  Units that have ionizers in them that can't kill any bacteria, or actually remove any dust from your home are essentially useless.

Ionizers may temporarily make the air smell better when they are on, but simply creating fresh smelling air is not going to alleviate allergy symptoms.

Ionizers can't kill mold, and they can't remove dust from your home.  To the contrary they will electronically glue any airborne dust, mold, and bacteria to every surface in your home, and therefore make any allergy situation WORSE in the long run.

Once again we recommend you to read our web page about ionizers and strongly urge that you never use one of these gimmick devices in your home. 
They are NOT the same as a true ozone generator.

If ionizers worked we would be the first in line to sell them, and reap the high profits they sew.
Not only do they NOT work, they make the dust and bacteria problem worse in the long run.

Low output ozone generators are not going to do much for allergies either.  An ozone generator that only has a low ozone output has NO ability to perform High Ozone Shock Treatments that are a MUST for killing mold an bacteria.

No matter how long you run a low level ozone generator in a room, it will NEVER be able to kill a substantial amount of the bacteria and mold in that room.

To truly sterilize rooms of mold and bacteria you MUST have an ozone generator that can perform High Ozone Shock Treatments.   An ozone generator that cannot produce at least 400 mg/hr of ozone cannot truly shock a normal sized room.  That's the minimum amount of ozone you'll need to perform a proper shock.  Larger rooms, or more severe bacterial contamination's will require higher ozone outputs to perform proper shock treatments.

UV Ultraviolet lamps are ineffective air purifiers and are not going to do much good for helping to control allergies. 
It takes a much higher dosage of UV light to kill bacteria than what 99% of UV air purifiers output, and UV light cannot kill mold once it has already formed.

This is a direct quote from General Electric, the manufacturer of such lamps:
"Once mold has already formed, ultraviolet energy will NOT eliminate it."

Most smaller store bought HEPA filters are too small, and don't have a high enough fan speed, or contain enough filter material in them to do a decent job of filtering dust and particulate matter out of the air.  Not only do they not do a great job of filtering the air, they usually require often and expensive filter changes.  You may save a few dollars on them when you initially buy them, but shortly it will become apparent they are not the bargain you though they were.

Quality filters for your HVAC air conditioning system are a good idea, but they are not going to solve a dust problem.  While they can do a decent job of filtering the air, realize they will only work when the ventilation system is on. They can only filter the air if there is a return air vent in the room you want the air filtration in.  If the filter isn't sucking in dust in the room you are in, it's not going to remove any dust in that room.

Also beware of those combination all in one units that have ozone, ionization, and a small HEPA filters.
They just don't do a very good job.
These machines simply play into the customers desire to have one machine that will "do it all".
In reality these types of "air purifiers" do none of the jobs they claim to do very well.

There is no single air purifier that can kill all the mold and bacteria, and filter all the dust in a room.

They do NOT exist.  If they could be built we would be the first company in line to build them.
We know that's what people want, unfortunately combining a machine to perform all these different types of air purification functions just doesn't work that well.

Don't let a nice sales pitch of a company claiming "new technology" influence your sense of reason.

The physics of air purification are simple.  Low levels for killing airborne bacteria, high levels for sterilizing entire rooms, and high quality HEPA air filters for clearing dust and particulate matter from the air.

No "new" technology can break the laws of physics that govern these basics of air purification.

Whole House In Duct Ozone Air Purifier If you are looking for a WHOLE HOUSE air purifier realize that there is NO tabletop unit, of ANY BRAND that can accomplish this task. ONLY a unit that fires ozone into the air ducts,  like the Air-Zone® Air-Duct 2000 can evenly distribute ozone throughout the ENTIRE home. Ozone or ions cannot pass through walls. Purifies Air and Removes Odors In entire Homes, Offices, Restaurants, etc. U.S Patented Gold Plated Ozone Element Produces Pure 03 Ozone with Zero Nitrogen Oxides Features a variable ozone output from 80 - 2000 mg/hr Built in "Burst Timer" for air purification in small or large areas. Totally Automatic Operation! Extra Heavy Duty Stainless Steel Housing CLICK HERE for complete product description and pricing. Air-Zone® Air-Duct 2000 Whole House In Duct Air Purifier Ozone Generator

Ozone is all around us.  It is made by nature.  We are breathing it in all the time.  Low levels of ozone are perfectly fine to breathe. The ONLY warnings that have ever been issued against the use of ozone are the OVERLY HIGH us of ozone in OCCUPIED areas.
Air-Zone ozone air purifiers are the safest on the market because they incorporate a special "burst timer" to limit ozone levels to safe levels.
Many of our machines also have a sanitizing mode to blast out unoccupied rooms with High Ozone
Shock Treatments that can sanitize entire rooms of mold, bacteria, and viruses.

One last point, despite what you may have heard from other sources, air purifiers cannot work through walls.  We thought it important to mention that because these types of claims are commonly made. 

What works for allergy relief are proven technologies:  Low, safe, levels of ozone for air purification, high levels of ozone blasted into unoccupied rooms for killing mold and bacteria, 
and true HEPA air filters to remove particulate allergens from the air.