Cleaner Air is Healthier for The Children, The Staff and the Bottom Line!
Day-Care operators and Pre-School Teachers have reported amazing improvements in their classrooms after Purifans were installed. Inhaler use dropped by 70% and many children stopped needing inhalers or daily breathing treatments. Some parents reported children didn't need their inhaler the rest of the year at home either. Even teachers have reported they worked an entire school year without having any personal illnesses or needing any allergy medications in the same classroom, that in prior years, they had broncial pneumonia 3 times in one year, and repeated ear infections that damaged their hearing. After Purifans were installed these same teachers had no sick days the rest of the year. The children were much healthier too. Everyone saves a lot of money on sick days, missed work days and medical costs created by these repeat respiratory infections common in most pre-schools and daycares.
Ask any parent what is their biggest complaint and concern about their Day-Care or Pre-School and it is 
usually the number of times their child gets sick. The first time a child is put in this classroom setting they are typically exposed to lots of new cat and dog pet dander, dust mite allergens, mold, pollen and other common allergens that arrive every day on the skin, hair, clothes and back-packs of the children in the classroom. These allergens settle to the floor and people entering the classroom track in many other items on the soles of their shoes including pesticides, motor oil, anti-freeze, brake fluid, steering fluid, transmission fluid, bird feces and many other items you step in every day on sidewalks and in parking lots. These nasty chemicals soak into the dust particles, decaying skin cells and common household dust that exists on the floor of every classroom in the world. When this dust get stirred into the air by activities the children's noses are only 30 to 40 inches off the floor. If children are sitting in chairs, or working on mats on the floor their nose is even closer to the dust particles on the allergen filled floor. Once these particles are stirred up the particles can stay airborne for hours or even days, so every breath inhaled by a child in the room has to deal with the allergens, dust, odor, dander, mold and chemicals that are in this mix. It is no wonder they get bronchitis, sinutitus, ear infections, sinus infections and respiratory infections.
Any Day-Care Owner or Operator should want to provide the healthiest environment for the children they care for every day. By installing Purifans and operating them properly, we believe children will have 50% fewer sick days. This means parents stay at work, and children stay in Day-Care. It also means the children won't run up medical expenses and insurance costs as often saving the family and insurance company money. For schools serving low-income children, the health care expenses are paid by the state health care system. Cleaner classroom air, that keeps children healthier should give any Day-Care a competitive advantage in thier local market. Parents will appreciate this benefit and be more loyal, and give the business more referrals to their friends, neighbors and people they talk to at work. By marketing this feature in normal advertising the Day-Care Operator will attract more business and boost revenues and profits. In fact most parents would pay a few dollars more per week for a DayCare Facility that kept their children healthy and allowed them to miss less work. Some DayCares have asked families to donate an extra fee to pay for the Purifan Air Cleaners in their facility.
A Short Story About The First Day Parents Take Their Child to Day-Care
What if you took your child to school on the first day of Day-Care and you were invited to stay for 30 minutes to watch what went on. The first thing you notice is the teacher had a small plastic tub in the front of the class that was filled with water. While the children got settled into their seats the teacher is sweeping up a pile of dust and dirt with a broom, and she dumps the dustpan full of dust into the tub of water. She then stirs the water with the dirty broom she was just using to sweep up the floor. The parents watching this start to get very concerned.
The teacher then announces there are several plastic cups on her desk and she wants each child to take turns coming up to the tub of water, scoop out a full cup of dirty water, put as much water as they can into their mouth and then spit all the water in their mouth back into the tub. She tells the children to do this five times as quick as they can, then they can go sit down and the next child goes to the tub, grabs a cup and does the same thing! Several children are coughing and sneezing and the parents can't believe what they are hearing this teacher say. Why isn't this teacher in jail? This is so unsanitary and parents know every child is going to get every sickness brought into this classroom by any child! Who would allow their child to go to Day-Care in this classroom every day? The answer is - Every parent with a child in Day-Care or Pre-School.
Consider The Fact That All the Air in The Classroom As One Big Shared Tub of Water!
Now for the saddest part of this story, the air in the room is exactly like the big tub of water. The microscopic particulates floating in the air are just like the water. Each child takes about 20 breaths per minute, which is over 100 gallons of air in and out of their body per hour. There are about 7.5 gallons of air in a cubic foot. So in a 20 x 20 x 8 foot area there are only 3,200 cubic feet of air to share or about 24,000 gallons of air in the room. Every child takes 100 gallons per hour into their lungs and respiratory system contaminating the air with whatever viruses or bacteria they have in their respiratory system and exhaling it back into the 24,000 gallon tub of air! The real size of the tub of water is much smaller. In fact, the air at the top of the average classroom doesn't really get contaminated. The reality is the lower 3 to 4 feet of air in the classroom near the floor, which is only 1,200 cubic feet, or 9,000 gallons of air, gets ALL the viruses and bacteria chidlren are exhaling. That means 9,000 gallons is the real size of the tub of air shared over and over again by all the children in a classroom full of small children. Twenty-five children inhale and exhale a total of about 2,500 gallons of air each hour out of this same 9,000 gallon tub of air.
Contagious illnesses are spread when viruses and bacteria laden moisture droplets exhaled float around the room on dust particles like hot air ballons, and when another child takes a breath, they inhale these virus and baterial laden droplets into their respiratory system and contract the illness caused by the bacteria or virus. The CDC calls this Particle Droplet Transmission.
That is why every Day-Care and Pre-School Classroom needs Purifans installed on the ceiling. Purifans filter all the air in a 20 x 20 x 8 foot room every 90 seconds or 40 air changes per hour. Air is forced through five stages of filter media and the dust particles are captured, the bacteria and virus are swept into the filters along with the moisture droplets and are quickly dried out and die because of the 1,000 foot per minute wind blowing on the front of the filters where these particles were captured. The Purifan stirs all the air in the room to dilute the exhaled contributions added by each student and makes the air cleaner and healthier for all the occupants. The CDC tells hospitals and isolation wards trying to control contagious bacterial and viral illnesses to filter the air at least 12 air changes per hour. The Purifan provide 40 air changes per hour.
Filtering the air helps to reduce the particle droplet transmission of TB, influenza, whooping cough, baterial pneumonia, colds, sinus infections, ear infections and respiratory infections. Air filtration at a rate of at least 12 changes per hour is recommended by the CDC to reduce the risk of spreading bird flu and SARS in medical facilities. All of these diseases are known to spread by riding on small airborne dust particles and traveling down corridors and through air conditioning vents in hospitals. The floating particles are like microscopic taxi cabs giving the illness a ride to another person's respiratory system in the room.
Purifans Design Has 11 Patents and Is An Ideal Design for Filtering Classroom Air
Only Purifans are properly designed to really do this job right, and Purifans are the lowest cost solution by far. Only Purifans filter the air quietly enough not to disrupt teaching activities. Purifan are located in the ideal location in the room, the ceiling to deliver filtered air to all parts of the rooms. Contaminated droplets and particles are swept upward away from the children instead of across the room where they have the chance to get in some other child's nose. Many shelf and floor modle air cleaners use noisy fans that make more noise than a vacuum sweeper. Purifans are low cost to buy and maintain. Purifans use less energy than other designs. Floor and shelf models Air Cleaners can't provide the recommended 12 air changes per hour that will make a difference and on HIGH settings they make way too much noise. Purifans unique low-cost design offers Day-Care and Pre-Schools a way to equip every classroom with a powerful air filter to help the children and staff enjoy cleaner, fresher smelling air that is healthier for all. Plus the occupants in the classroom get all the air movement, energy and comfort benefits provided by ceiling fan airflow. Click Here to See the Particle Levels in 2 Kindergarten Classrooms.
Day-Care Operators Also Need to Care for the Staff
Every adult who works in a Day-Care or Pre-School knows they will be exposed to many more illnesses, and if the teachers are sick, miss work or don't feel well then the quality of care suffers. Every Day-Care tries to operate with the right level of staff so the business makes a profit. They can't budget for extra staff or they wouldn't be profitable. When several of these staff members scheduled to work call in sick for the day, the short staffed Day-Cares have to care for the children without adequate staff or supervision. This situation is not good for the children or their safety in some cases, and if children are not properly supervised more serious issues can develop. Keeping staff healthy and at work is key to operating a quality, profitable, respected Day-Care operation.
