Re: air ionisers kill some bacteria

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 8:54:24 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> Does anyone have info on UV units that install on home furnaces?

>

I got a pamphlet from my brother in law that works for a plumbing supply

place. He wants us to try it out to see how it works. He said they would sell

it to us cheap just so they can see how much it helps. What do you know about

it? And how did you hear about it? I think it is fairly new. Deb A

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 8:54:24 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> Does anyone have info on UV units that install on home furnaces?

>

I got a pamphlet from my brother in law that works for a plumbing supply

place. He wants us to try it out to see how it works. He said they would sell

it to us cheap just so they can see how much it helps. What do you know about

it? And how did you hear about it? I think it is fairly new. Deb A

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 8:54:24 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> Does anyone have info on UV units that install on home furnaces?

>

I got a pamphlet from my brother in law that works for a plumbing supply

place. He wants us to try it out to see how it works. He said they would sell

it to us cheap just so they can see how much it helps. What do you know about

it? And how did you hear about it? I think it is fairly new. Deb A

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Does anyone have info on UV units that install on home furnaces?

> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993228

>

> Air ionisers wipe out hospital infections

> 18:02 03 January 03 NewScientist.com news service

> Repeated airborne infections of the bacteria acinetobacter in an

> intensive care ward have been eliminated by the installation of a

> negative air ioniser.

> In the first such epidemiological study, researchers found that the

> infection rate fell to zero during the year long trial. " We were

> absolutely astounded to find such clear cut results, " engineer

Clive

> Begg at the University of Leeds, UK, told New Scientist.

> Dean, a consultant at the St 's Hospital in Leeds

where

> the trial took place says: " The results have been fantastic - so

much

> so that we have asked the university to leave the ionisers with us. "

> The ionisers produce negative air ions that collide with suspended

> particles and give them a charge. The scientists believe charged

> particles aggregate together and fall out of the air, thereby

> disinfecting the atmosphere and stopping the transmission of

> infection.

> " We don't fully understand how it is working, but we suspect it is

> damaging or killing the bacteria, " says Beggs. " But if the ionisers

> are cleaning the air in this way, we would expect to find more

> precipitation of acinetobacter on surfaces and this is exactly what

> we found. "

>

> Antibiotic resistant

> Acinetobacter infections are often very difficult to treat as the

> bacterium is resistant to many antibiotics. It poses no real threat

> to healthy humans but can cause serious infections in people with

> weakened immune systems.

> " Ionisers may become a powerful weapon in the fight against

hospital

> acquired infection, " says clinical microbiologist Kerr,

another

> team member. " People had focused on getting doctors and nurses to

> wash their hands and had not looked at anything else. "

> About 10 per cent of infections in the UK's public hospitals have

> been estimated to be airborne, but Kerr says it may be even higher,

> as conventional methods to sample airborne bacteria are inefficient.

> But although the results are very promising, he adds that further

> research is needed because acinetobacter infections tend to be

> cyclical. " They may not be seen for weeks or months and then you

see

> a cluster of infections, " he says.

>

> TB target

>

> The team is currently doing more lab studies to see if other

> organisms may be targeted. Tuberculosis is one promising target.

> Duerden, director of the UK's Public Health Laboratory

Service,

> is encouraged by the results. " It is not the whole answer as many

> infections are spread by touch, but it is a potential addition to

the

> weaponry against hospital infections, " he told New Scientist.

> Research by electronics company Sharp has shown that positive and

> negative ions produced by their air conditioning systems can

> inactivate viruses including influenza. But the new study is the

> first to link such an effect to reduced infections in hospitals.

>

>

> Leon

[Guest guest]

Does anyone have info on UV units that install on home furnaces?

> http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993228

>

> Air ionisers wipe out hospital infections

> 18:02 03 January 03 NewScientist.com news service

> Repeated airborne infections of the bacteria acinetobacter in an

> intensive care ward have been eliminated by the installation of a

> negative air ioniser.

> In the first such epidemiological study, researchers found that the

> infection rate fell to zero during the year long trial. " We were

> absolutely astounded to find such clear cut results, " engineer

Clive

> Begg at the University of Leeds, UK, told New Scientist.

> Dean, a consultant at the St 's Hospital in Leeds

where

> the trial took place says: " The results have been fantastic - so

much

> so that we have asked the university to leave the ionisers with us. "

> The ionisers produce negative air ions that collide with suspended

> particles and give them a charge. The scientists believe charged

> particles aggregate together and fall out of the air, thereby

> disinfecting the atmosphere and stopping the transmission of

> infection.

> " We don't fully understand how it is working, but we suspect it is

> damaging or killing the bacteria, " says Beggs. " But if the ionisers

> are cleaning the air in this way, we would expect to find more

> precipitation of acinetobacter on surfaces and this is exactly what

> we found. "

>

> Antibiotic resistant

> Acinetobacter infections are often very difficult to treat as the

> bacterium is resistant to many antibiotics. It poses no real threat

> to healthy humans but can cause serious infections in people with

> weakened immune systems.

> " Ionisers may become a powerful weapon in the fight against

hospital

> acquired infection, " says clinical microbiologist Kerr,

another

> team member. " People had focused on getting doctors and nurses to

> wash their hands and had not looked at anything else. "

> About 10 per cent of infections in the UK's public hospitals have

> been estimated to be airborne, but Kerr says it may be even higher,

> as conventional methods to sample airborne bacteria are inefficient.

> But although the results are very promising, he adds that further

> research is needed because acinetobacter infections tend to be

> cyclical. " They may not be seen for weeks or months and then you

see

> a cluster of infections, " he says.

>

> TB target

>

> The team is currently doing more lab studies to see if other

> organisms may be targeted. Tuberculosis is one promising target.

> Duerden, director of the UK's Public Health Laboratory

Service,

> is encouraged by the results. " It is not the whole answer as many

> infections are spread by touch, but it is a potential addition to

the

> weaponry against hospital infections, " he told New Scientist.

> Research by electronics company Sharp has shown that positive and

> negative ions produced by their air conditioning systems can

> inactivate viruses including influenza. But the new study is the

> first to link such an effect to reduced infections in hospitals.

>

>

> Leon

[Guest guest]

This is something we can put on our existing furnace the UV unit is called

UV

Air solution. It's a UV lamp that helps to clean the furnace and the air from

bacteria. You must have a huge house. I have been trying to send you the

pamphlet but can't get to come up right it is either to big or to small to

read or I can't get it all to come up. I can send you the picture that comes

up OK it's just that the lettering is small. Deb A

[Guest guest]

This is something we can put on our existing furnace the UV unit is called

UV

Air solution. It's a UV lamp that helps to clean the furnace and the air from

bacteria. You must have a huge house. I have been trying to send you the

pamphlet but can't get to come up right it is either to big or to small to

read or I can't get it all to come up. I can send you the picture that comes

up OK it's just that the lettering is small. Deb A

[Guest guest]

This is something we can put on our existing furnace the UV unit is called

UV

Air solution. It's a UV lamp that helps to clean the furnace and the air from

bacteria. You must have a huge house. I have been trying to send you the

pamphlet but can't get to come up right it is either to big or to small to

read or I can't get it all to come up. I can send you the picture that comes

up OK it's just that the lettering is small. Deb A

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 6:22:14 PM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> kind of like to think of it as the Olds Delta 88 of houses. It was

> cheap, huge, low to the ground, expensive as hell to maintain and

> keep running, and lacks any sort of charm whatsoever. The only thing

> missing is the sound of the muffler dragging along the pavement.

>

> But we like it, and we call it home. (My only regret is that instead

> of trying to update it, we didn't leave the shag carpet and the foil

> wallpaper exactly where it was, hang some beads put out some pet

> rocks and go with it. )

>

>

>

Well we live in a old farm house so I know what you mean about maintaining

things. We have so far redone two bathroom, kitchen and our bedroom, replace

almost all of the windows and the carpeting. It's a lot of work but well

worth the hard earn sweat when you go to sell it. Let me know how you like

you UV light because I think we are going to give it a whirl too. Deb A

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In a message dated 1/7/2003 6:22:14 PM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> kind of like to think of it as the Olds Delta 88 of houses. It was

> cheap, huge, low to the ground, expensive as hell to maintain and

> keep running, and lacks any sort of charm whatsoever. The only thing

> missing is the sound of the muffler dragging along the pavement.

>

> But we like it, and we call it home. (My only regret is that instead

> of trying to update it, we didn't leave the shag carpet and the foil

> wallpaper exactly where it was, hang some beads put out some pet

> rocks and go with it. )

>

>

>

Well we live in a old farm house so I know what you mean about maintaining

things. We have so far redone two bathroom, kitchen and our bedroom, replace

almost all of the windows and the carpeting. It's a lot of work but well

worth the hard earn sweat when you go to sell it. Let me know how you like

you UV light because I think we are going to give it a whirl too. Deb A

[Guest guest]

I kind of like to think of it as the Olds Delta 88 of houses. It was

cheap, huge, low to the ground, expensive as hell to maintain and

keep running, and lacks any sort of charm whatsoever. The only thing

missing is the sound of the muffler dragging along the pavement.

But we like it, and we call it home. (My only regret is that instead

of trying to update it, we didn't leave the shag carpet and the foil

wallpaper exactly where it was, hang some beads put out some pet

rocks and go with it. )

> This is something we can put on our existing furnace the UV

unit is called UV

> Air solution. It's a UV lamp that helps to clean the furnace and

the air from

> bacteria. You must have a huge house. I have been trying to send

you the

> pamphlet but can't get to come up right it is either to big or to

small to

> read or I can't get it all to come up. I can send you the picture

that comes

> up OK it's just that the lettering is small. Deb A

[Guest guest]

I kind of like to think of it as the Olds Delta 88 of houses. It was

cheap, huge, low to the ground, expensive as hell to maintain and

keep running, and lacks any sort of charm whatsoever. The only thing

missing is the sound of the muffler dragging along the pavement.

But we like it, and we call it home. (My only regret is that instead

of trying to update it, we didn't leave the shag carpet and the foil

wallpaper exactly where it was, hang some beads put out some pet

rocks and go with it. )

> This is something we can put on our existing furnace the UV

unit is called UV

> Air solution. It's a UV lamp that helps to clean the furnace and

the air from

> bacteria. You must have a huge house. I have been trying to send

you the

> pamphlet but can't get to come up right it is either to big or to

small to

> read or I can't get it all to come up. I can send you the picture

that comes

> up OK it's just that the lettering is small. Deb A

[Guest guest]

,

My very first brand new home had shag carpet and foil wallpaper!!

And I think I even had a pet rock, too!

Sounds like an interesting house anyway.

Aunt B

[Guest guest]

,

My very first brand new home had shag carpet and foil wallpaper!!

And I think I even had a pet rock, too!

Sounds like an interesting house anyway.

Aunt B

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In a message dated 1/8/2003 8:45:37 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> lol - and 30 years from now someone will buy our house and joke

> about our awful beige carpet, the boring tile in the kitchen, and

> wonder why someone would ever take out all that nice wood paneling in

> family room, .... and so it goes....

>

> --

Yep, LOL!! Your right! Deb A

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In a message dated 1/8/2003 8:45:37 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> lol - and 30 years from now someone will buy our house and joke

> about our awful beige carpet, the boring tile in the kitchen, and

> wonder why someone would ever take out all that nice wood paneling in

> family room, .... and so it goes....

>

> --

Yep, LOL!! Your right! Deb A

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 1/8/2003 8:45:37 AM Central Standard Time, blruf@...

writes:

> lol - and 30 years from now someone will buy our house and joke

> about our awful beige carpet, the boring tile in the kitchen, and

> wonder why someone would ever take out all that nice wood paneling in

> family room, .... and so it goes....

>

> --

Yep, LOL!! Your right! Deb A

[Guest guest]

lol - and 30 years from now someone will buy our house and joke

about our awful beige carpet, the boring tile in the kitchen, and

wonder why someone would ever take out all that nice wood paneling in

family room, .... and so it goes....

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- In cfparents , cyxty5rss@a... wrote:

> ,

> My very first brand new home had shag carpet and foil wallpaper!!

> And I think I even had a pet rock, too!

> Sounds like an interesting house anyway.

> Aunt B

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