Microbes in Smoke

Smoke carries viruses and bacteria and fungus in it. So this is really important. The average state in the United States right Now it's about 16 smoke days every year which means the average person right now listening to this at least 16 days a year you're getting exposed to some kind of smoke from somewhere burning in the United States that exposure can increase exposure to certain infections, particularly certain yeast and certain fungi. Typically in emergency rooms people see an uptake in these during these wildfires. Point is air quality is a big big deal. So how can you actually help minimize environmental smoke exposure caused illnesses? The other thing that's important is about this is that exposure can actually increase your risk for inflammatory diseases, lung inflammatory disease and even chronic inflammatory response syndrome. So getting your house squared away. We have a resource on our website, the Healthy Home Guide that actually walks through cleaning your air, how you hook up HEPA filters in your house, huge help to minimize smoke exposure.