Poor indoor air quality (IAQ) in your Knoxville, TN, home can have some wretched consequences for your daily life, inflaming your allergies or triggering symptoms like coughing, sneezing and lightheadedness. Poor IAQ can also ruin your ability to get a good night’s sleep. Let’s discuss some of the ways in which IAQ can impact sleep quality.
Disrupted Breathing
Since dust, pollen, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and other pollutants can irritate your lungs and sinuses, your body will put up some resistance whenever you try to inhale them. When you’re asleep, you’ll lose the ability to suppress and control this resistance, so your body may refuse to take in dirty air while you’re asleep. As a result, there may be disruptions in your breathing as you try to sleep.
Poor and Intermittent Sleep
Interruptions to your breathing patterns may jolt you awake and keep you from enjoying a proper night’s sleep. If your IAQ issues are especially severe, you may experience these things multiple times in the same night.
Consequently, you might wake up the next day and feel extremely lethargic. If this problem continues for a long time, its compound effect can significantly compromise your overall health.
Allergy Flare-Ups
If you’re unlucky enough to suffer from allergies to pollen, pet dander, dust mites or any other kind of airborne pollutant, low IAQ will increase the likelihood that your allergy symptoms will flare up. This problem will persist when you’re asleep.
Cleaning and maintaining your HVAC system on a regular basis will promote airflow and remove some of these pollutants, thereby diminishing the overall problem. However, investing in IAQ solutions is a much more effective solution.
The better your IAQ, the more likely it is that you’ll sleep well and awake refreshed. If you long to sleep soundly in Knoxville, TN, call Melton Heating and Air Conditioning to learn about our IAQ services today.
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