Breathe Clean, Breathe Easy – A short guide to combat Indoor pollution

As a doctor, I come across cases of respiratory allergies on a daily basis and many a times despite regular medicines and a healthy diet, the patient keeps coming back to me with the same symptoms – sneezing, irritation in the nose, cough, redness of the eyes, itching of the skin, hives, wheezing , breathlessness etc. source In such cases, there is generally a maintaining cause, which means something around the patient is not allowing him or her to recover and is causing him or her to develop an allergic reaction recurrently .More often than not, that something turns out to be a common and seemingly innocuous part of the household itself . VOCs are the most common cause of indoor pollution and respiratory problems because their concentrations are usually higher indoors (actually up to 5 times more!) than outdoors. What are V.O.C.s? VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) and Chemicals – These compounds are volatile (easily disperse