Getting Rid of Eczema: Air Purifier

At the very beginning of my quest to get rid of Tyler's eczema in early spring, a friend of mine surprised me with an air purifier for his room. She is a mom with a teenage son who has tree nut allergies, eczema, and asthma. She certainly knows a thing or two about my struggles.

I admit at first I wondered how much it would help. We don't deal with asthma like her son so I wondered if cleaning the air up in Tyler's room really would make much of a difference. A few weeks later we had a check up with our allergist where he did more allergy testing. One of his allergies was found to be dust. The allergist recommended an air purifier for his room and I told him it was already done!

Prior to this I had been going on our pediatrician's advice to use a humidifier at night to keep his skin moist. It had not worked a bit. In fact, it was worse after using that. (We also have a mold allergy and humidifiers are terrible for mold allergies. Ooppps, didn't know that! We're selling it in our next garage sale since I don't want the thing in the house anymore.)

Within a few weeks of using the air purifier (as well as making other changes I have talked about and will be talking about), I noticed it seemed to be working. The filter was regularly full of dust so it was removing an allergen from his room.

Tyler loves the air purifier and turns it on when he is simply in playing in his room. I estimate that he is in his room with it on about 14 hours (sleep time and play time). We have not purchased one for other rooms of the house but I am holding off a bit to see if it truly is necessary.

Here is the one that Tyler has in his room that I highly recommend:

Since the Honeywell brand is the only brand I have experience with, they are the only ones I can personally recommend. Amazon carriers a lot of different varities, as well as larger room models. You check their selection out here.

This post is the first in a series of posts on getting rid of eczema. If you missed the others, click here.