Dear Santa, if you can give me a few more minutes of uninterrupted sleep every night, you can skip all my gifts for the next 30 years. Although this possibility seems more remote than the flying sled that warps time and space, I think I have found a way. Running an air purifier in our home can help my family breathe more easily without being woken up by a stuffy nose and itchy cough in the middle of the night. If you know a person with allergies, the Blueair Blue Pure 311 Auto air purifier is a good holiday gift-especially because it has a 30% discount on Amazon on Cyber ​​Monday.

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For several years, I have always believed that the reason why my son often has a runny nose and cough when he wakes up is that the cold is his expenses in daycare, preschool and kindergarten. Then, during his annual physical examination in February 2020, I, like many other parents, asked his pediatrician if I should be worried about that cough. Without completely eliminating my fear of COVID, she mentioned that when sleeping in a room, dust allergies may get worse. The room is full of vacuum toys, clothes, furniture and bedding. I don't like to humiliate my mother, but this is a real face-to-face moment for me. I have suffered from the same allergies all my life, and I can't put two and two together at all.

From that day on, we spent a lot of time internally fighting our favorite allergens. There are a lot of vacuuming, dusting, and then stuffing his stuffed toy into the pillowcase and spinning it around in the washing machine. Gradually, the morning cough and midnight sultry symptoms gradually disappeared, although they never disappeared completely. But this spring, when I woke up with eyes as big as golf balls, I decided to invest in some air purifiers for our home.

Buy: Blueair Blue Pure 311 Auto, $174.99 (original price $249.99); Amazon website.

"Allergens in the air at home can cause allergic symptoms, and air filtration can help reduce the number of allergens in the air at home and help relieve allergies and asthma symptoms," said Meng Chen, an allergy and immunology expert at Stanford Children's Hospital. Chen) said. Health, told Parents.com before.

We started with a small air purifier in the bedroom, and the difference was obvious. In the morning, I can breathe in through my nose, and I don’t have to scratch my itchy eyelids at night. The children’s room, which was my morning alarm clock, no longer coughed. Nevertheless, air purifiers have limitations: they can only work in one room at a time, and you need a more powerful machine to filter the air in a larger room. If we feel better in the bedroom at night, don't we want to feel good all day in other parts of the house? This is where the larger Blueair 311 Auto comes in.

It circulates all the air in a 388 square foot room five times an hour, trapping 99.97% of air particles to 0.1 micron. All Blueair purifiers have passed the clean air delivery rate verification of the Home Appliance Manufacturers Association. In addition, they have received an Energy Star rating and passed the California EPA Air Resources Board's safe ozone emission test. But Blueair 311 doesn't look or sound like it is doing all this work. On the contrary, its Scandinavian design makes it look like a very cool cylindrical speaker-the gray cloth pre-filter gives us a mid-century modern atmosphere-when it runs at low speeds, you You must put your ears on the fan to hear it.

According to the company, Blueair machines are quieter than other machines because their HEPASilent filters use static electricity to capture smaller particles, which means they can be thinner than other filters. A thinner filter requires a lower fan speed to push air through, so it is quieter and consumes less power. At the same time, when you put it in automatic mode and the sensor is triggered (when I am cooking smoky things, or even when someone shakes out the blanket), you can tell that it is indeed working; how much the fan will spin Minutes, until the particles are disposed of.

A parent wrote on Amazon: "Our daughter has asthma. Only at night does it really affect her and affect her sleep." "She coughed, tossed and turned, and woke up several times every night. I cleared her all Her plush toys and other allergens ensure that we keep her room dust-free...every night we turn on a humidifier for her, but she still coughs. Since the first day of installing the air purifier, she has stopped coughing. Sleeping all night. Her blankets are no longer everywhere, so I know she won't toss and turn anymore."

To be clear, doctors do not believe that air purifiers alone can cure allergies. Although they can remove dust, pollution, pollen and other particles from the air, allergens such as dust mites can be deposited on carpets and beds. So, vacuuming and cleaning must continue, but I am very happy to get extra help.

By the way, this is not just for allergies. Other reviewers praised how the Blueair 311 and its other models (211 for larger rooms and 411 for smaller rooms) helped them breathe more easily during the wildfire season in the west and particularly dusty construction projects. The carbon filter even helped eliminate the dog smell in their room, and when my neighbor downstairs was frying for dinner, I would definitely use the same function.

Although most air purifiers can indeed remove certain bacteria in the air, if your main concern is COVID, please consider upgrading to Blueair HealthProtect 7470i, which has filters specifically designed to stop viruses and bacteria.

All of this is to say that someone in your life may benefit from using a new, quiet air purifier at home-if that is the case, the price of this Cyber ​​Monday is too good to be missed.

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