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Americans with asthma
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Best Air Purifier for Asthma — Clinically Proven to Reduce Asthma Symptoms
HealthMate
Struggling with asthma triggers at home? The Austin Air HealthMate is the #1 air purifier for asthma sufferers. The HealthMate is our asthma air purifier — clinically proven to reduce asthma symptoms and improve breathing. Its medical-grade HEPA filter removes up tp 99.97% of asthma triggers such as dust mites, pollen, pet dander, and mold spores while the activated carbon and mineral blend eliminates the chemical and VOC triggers. And it's not just patients who agree — tested against more than 100 other air purifiers at Battelle Laboratories for the U.S. Army, the HealthMate came out on top! Trusted by doctors, the U.S. military, and asthma patients worldwide.
Whole-Home Air Purification for Asthma — Because Asthma Triggers Don't Stay in One Room
Indoor asthma triggers—dust mites, mold spores, pet dander, VOCs, gas stove NO₂, and wildfire smoke—move freely through every room of your home, not just the bedroom. For asthma patients and families managing childhood asthma or adult asthma, a single air purifier is a meaningful start. But whole-home medical-grade air purification is what the clinical research and environmental medicine physicians consistently recommend—coverage in the bedroom where asthma attacks are most dangerous at night, in the living room where children spend their days, and in the kitchen where cooking emissions silently spike indoor air pollution levels. That is what the Austin Air whole-home asthma bundle delivers.
The Austin Air Asthma, Allergies & COPD Bundle
Whole-Home Medical-Grade Air Purification for Asthma Families
For families managing childhood asthma, adult asthma, asthma with allergies, or asthma with COPD, the Austin Air Asthma Bundle delivers whole-home medical-grade air purification, the solution environmental medicine physicians and clinical researchers consistently recommend over single-room air purifiers.
The Austin Air Bedroom Machine provides overnight asthma relief in the room where symptoms are most dangerous, while additional units protect your living spaces from the indoor asthma triggers that accumulate throughout the day: dust mites, mold spores, pet dander, VOCs, and nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves. The best air purifier for asthma is not one unit in one room, it is medical-grade HEPA and activated carbon filtration in every space your family breathes.
Why Austin Air Is the Best Medical-Grade Air Purifier for Asthma
Six Reasons No Other Brand Can Match.
Medical-Grade HEPA
True Medical-Grade HEPA Filtration for Asthma:
Captures 99.97% of airborne asthma triggers to 0.3 microns and 99% to 0.1 microns — including mold spores, dust mite debris, and pet dander that standard consumer air purifiers cannot adequately remove.
15 lbs. Activated Carbon
Because Asthma Is Also a Gas Problem:
Most air purifiers only capture particles. Using a unique blend of activated carbon and additional minerals, Austin Air adsorbs the gases and chemical asthma triggers HEPA cannot touch — VOCs, formaldehyde, NO₂, pesticide residue, and chemical off-gassing from furniture, flooring, and building materials.
Solid Steel, No Plastic
Safe for Asthma and Chemical Sensitivity:
Plastic air purifier housings off-gas directly into the air you are trying to clean. Austin Air's solid steel body with non-toxic powder coat paint is safe for asthma patients, COPD patients, and those with multiple chemical sensitivity.
No WiFi Connection
No Computerized Components. Just Continuous Asthma Protection.
Electronic and WiFi-enabled air purifiers introduce components that may be problematic for sensitive asthma patients. Austin Air delivers powerful, quiet, continuous medical-grade asthma air filtration—three feet from your head, all night long, with nothing added to your environment.
Handcrafted in Buffalo, NY
Built to Last Five Years Between Asthma Filter Changes:
Every Austin Air asthma air purifier is handcrafted in Buffalo, New York. No outsourcing, no overseas assembly — just American-made medical-grade filtration built to perform for five full years before a filter change is needed.
Trusted by Physicians
Recommended by Allergists, Pulmonologists & Asthma Specialists:
Austin Air is the air purifier of choice for allergists, pulmonologists, integrative physicians, environmental medicine specialists, and respiratory therapists who treat asthma patients — recommended because the clinical evidence supports it and the engineering earns it.
Air Purifier for Asthma: Reviews
For asthma sufferers searching for relief beyond medication, improving indoor air quality has been a life-changing discovery — and these Austin Air reviews are proof. Watch a man who reduced his dependence on asthma medication after improving his indoor air quality, a family managing pet dander and asthma in a child, and a young woman navigating both Lyme disease and asthma who finally sleeps through the night without symptoms. These are real asthma patients who found real, lasting asthma relief with Austin Air — in their own words.
What Is Triggering Your Asthma at Home — And Why Most Treatment Plans Miss It
Why do so many asthma patients continue to experience asthma symptoms — nighttime attacks, rescue inhaler dependence, missed school days and lost workdays — despite following their asthma treatment plan? The answer, according to the EPA, is frequently found indoors. Indoor air quality can be significantly more polluted than outdoor air, and the most common indoor asthma triggers are ones most asthma management plans never screen for or address.
Nighttime attacks
Asthma symptoms are clinically documented to worsen between 2am and 4am — the hours when dust mites in bedding, airborne mold spores, and pet dander reach their highest bedroom concentrations and inflame already-sensitive airways.
Chemical triggers
VOCs from furniture, flooring, and building materials off-gas continuously — and conventional cleaning products, plug-in air fresheners, and scented candles release benzene, formaldehyde, and phthalates that directly aggravate asthmatic airways around the clock.
Mold & dampness
Mold is one of the most significant and underdiagnosed asthma triggers in the home. According to the WHO, occupants of damp or moldy homes have up to a 75% greater risk of respiratory symptoms and asthma—and mold spores circulate in the air long before any visible growth appears.
Outdoor pollutants indoors
Pollen, wildfire smoke, and agricultural pesticides don't stay outside — they infiltrate through windows, doors, and HVAC systems, often reaching higher concentrations indoors than out. For asthma patients, there is no safe season and no safe room without filtration.
Gas stove NO₂
Research from Johns Hopkins University directly links nitrogen dioxide from gas stoves to worsened asthma control in children—each hour of cooking was associated with significantly higher indoor NO₂, which in turn was associated with increased nighttime rescue inhaler use.
Children at highest risk
Children with asthma face disproportionate risk from indoor air pollutants — breathing more air per pound of body weight than adults, with lungs still developing and less physiological capacity to filter toxins. The bedroom and classroom air quality are critical factors in childhood asthma control.
Childhood Asthma: A 3-Part Documentary Series
Childhood asthma is rising — and indoor air quality is a leading trigger most families don't know about. This three-part documentary series, developed with environmental medicine physicians and pediatric asthma researchers, uncovers why so many children with asthma struggle to breathe at home and at school, what environmental asthma triggers are hiding in plain sight, and what the clinical evidence shows about air purifiers for asthma relief in kids. Watch all three episodes free below.
EPISODE 1 | PART ONE
The Silent Epidemic — Causes, Geography, and Who Is Most at Risk
Why is childhood asthma highest in the rural Midwest — not inner cities? Dr. Lyn Patrick reveals the pesticide-asthma connection and explains what is really happening inside children's lungs. Featuring Leslie Vasquez of South Bronx Unite and Barbara Kaplan of the American Lung Association.
EPISODE 2 | PART TWO
Inside the School — Aging Buildings, Indoor Air, and Wildfire Smoke
How old school buildings, wildfire smoke, and indoor pollutants create a perfect storm for asthmatic children. Dr. Anne Marie Fine explains why indoor air is often more toxic than outdoor air — even in the most polluted cities.
EPISODE 3 | PART THREE
Solutions — Education Programs & Air Purifiers in Schools
Real solutions for asthmatic kids — in their schools, their classrooms, and their homes. How communities are taking action to clean the air where children learn and sleep, and what the clinical evidence shows about what actually works. Featuring the American Lung Association.
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fewer unplanned asthma-related ER or doctor visits per year in children using Austin Air purifiers in their bedroom and living area.
View published study → Lanphear et al., Pediatrics 2011 (PMC3010094)
Health Professionals: Offer Your Asthma Patients a Clinically Proven Air Purifier Solution
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Join a network of asthma-focused health professionals and retailers who are already making a measurable difference in their patients' respiratory health — with the wholesale pricing, product training, marketing support, and partnership of a company that has been manufacturing medical-grade air purifiers in the United States for over 30 years.
Dealer benefits:
- Wholesale pricing on medical-grade air purifiers
- Clinically proven asthma and COPD products
- Marketing and patient education support
- Listed on the Austin Air asthma dealer locator
- Product and asthma education training
- 30+ years of U.S. manufacturing behind you