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While some healthy individuals are not as affected by the coldest air of the season, those who are vulnerable or have pre-existing respiratory conditions should take precautions to ensure their personal health safety.

As winter carries on, most of us in colder climates try to avoid the bad weather at all costs, which means spending most of our time indoors. And to ensure we stay as warm as possible, we work to keep our homes well insulated and free from drafts and leaky windows. In recent years, as it’s become a very popular form of home improvement to keep heating bills down but as it turns out, this may not be so good for our respiratory health.

Since our primary business is cleaning and purifying the air we breathe, we at Austin Air attempt to be a source of all-things-healthy, and as such we try to bring you engaging and important content to enrich your life and to share with your friends. We tend to focus on scientific studies and stories in the news regarding air pollution, which clearly has broad consequences on the health of our community. However, we know you’re constantly bombarded with negative news so for today’s post we thought we’d interject some positivity into your day and take a look at some local clean air advocates and initiatives trying to make a difference in the Buffalo area.

Lead author of the study Dr. Ronit Confino-Cohen believes that people with uncontrolled asthma should have their vitamin D levels checked. A change in diet or a simple daily supplement may be all they need to reduce symptoms and get their asthma under control.

Winter often increases respiratory issues for asthmatics, but a new study shows a molecule known as IL-25 may be the key to new treatments. Air purifiers can also help!

Scientists from Japan believe that by moisturizing a baby’s skin in the first few weeks of life, parents could help to prevent conditions such as eczema and possibly even asthma and allergies. The team from the Tokyo-based National Center for...

It seems a new trend in alternative therapy is growing in popularity. Remarkably, the treatment requires people to sit in a cave, built almost entirely from salt. Therapeutic Salt Caves are starting to pop up in different parts of the...

If you feel like your allergies are more intense and hanging around for longer this year, they probably are. According to the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology, fall allergies that would normally disappear by the end of September,...

According to the experts, asthma rates for children reach their peak 17 days after Labor Day. A number of factors are at play. Children are exposed to new viruses when they return to school, which can aggravate asthma symptoms. Ragweed,...