Allergy season: Best air purifiers for pollen, dust in your home
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For people who suffer from pollen allergies, mid-Spring can be one of the worst times of the whole year as they are plagued with watery eyes, runny noses and itchy throats for weeks (or months).
Millions of people suffer from tree and flower pollen allergies every year, and different techniques and treatments, from nasal sprays to neti pots, can help reduce the impact of the season, and relieve your symptoms.
One important preventative measure you can take is making sure your air indoors is clean using a portable high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) purifier, according to the Mayo Clinic.
Updated: 12:06 PM PST Dec 21, 2020 Selina Tedesco, Good Housekeeping Institute Product Testing Analyst, Media & Tech Lab Amina Lake Abdelrahman, Good Housekeeping Institute Editorial Assistant
You already know it’s important to regularly clean your home, but there’s one part beyond the surface that’s often looked over: the air. Using an air purifier can help make sure the air you breathe in is clean, but not all air purifiers are created equal. That’s why the lab experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute dug deep into the research in order to find the best air purifiers on the market.
One important thing to note: “The effectiveness of air purifiers in real-world situations likely won’t mimic those of controlled conditions in a lab,” says Rachel Rothman, chief technologist at the Good Housekeeping Institute. That means it can be difficult to measure how effective an air purifier actually is. We vetted most of these air p