How useful is quartzing at home and how to use a lamp without harm to health?

In hospitals, quartzization of operating and treatment rooms is traditionally used for air disinfection. Many families have become convinced of the health benefits of quartzing at home, but where is the talk about the dangers of such exposure?

Air purification in the apartment is the most effective prevention of many infections. The device destroys viruses and pathogenic bacteria. Quartzing is contraindicated if family members have some illnesses.

How do ultraviolet rays work?

Quartzization is based on the destruction of pathogenic microorganisms in the air and on all objects. Ultraviolet rays (UV) have the property of damaging the shell of bacteria and viruses, depriving them of their viability.

For air disinfection, quartzing is used with devices of various modifications. The trading network has many devices available to ordinary customers.

Important!

Ultraviolet and blue lamps are different devices. A quartz lamp produces UV rays that have a bactericidal effect. Wearing glasses, you can sunbathe under it. It is used to disinfect rooms. The blue lamp, known as the Minin reflector, produces infrared rays that have only a thermal effect. It is used at home to warm parts of the body.

What is quartzing for?

Quartz devices are not only used to cleanse air of microorganisms. Lamps with nozzles are used as physiotherapeutic instruments.

• Using quartz lamp with special tubes treat diseases of the oral cavity, nose and ear. But you can use them only after consulting a doctor.
• Mercury-quartz lamps are used in the treatment of skin diseases. Devices are equipped with special glasses. Under the lamps take sunbathing.
• There is another kind of apparatus - they are used for quartz water and are installed in the water supply system.

Commercially available models are available. They are used both for quartzizing indoor air and for treating people. Some models use as a lamp. Throughout the night, they gently disinfect the air, alternating between luminescent and quartz radiation.

Types of lamps for disinfection and treatment

On the medical market there is a wide range of devices for quartzing air in the house and for treating people. It includes products of domestic and foreign manufacturers.

• Open Quartz Crystal Devices "Sun" OUFK-01 and 04 are intended for the treatment of ENT organs. The OUFK-03 model makes up for vitamin D deficiency.
• Crystal 2 represents a two-lamp recirculator. With it, you can process an area of ​​up to 60 m² in the presence of people.
• quartz lamp OBR-15 closed type designed for wall use. Able to disinfect rooms up to 30 m².
• Model "Crystal" able to purify indoor air up to 20 m². The peculiarity of the open type device is that it can be used to process a room in the presence of people.

For quartzing at home, it is better to purchase a closed lamp. In families with small children, air is disinfected in their absence. Any of the devices can be used in a manger when the kids are not in the room.

Which quartz lamp to choose?

When buying a model, you should focus primarily on the area of ​​your apartment. For home quartzing, choose a 20 m lamp². This is enough to disinfect the room. Another criterion for selecting an apparatus for quartzing a house is the type of model. For sale are desktop, floor or wall appliances.

Lamps with an open type of action are always used in an empty room. They are also used in the treatment of skin diseases or ENT organs. In most cases, such products are bought for physiotherapy rooms.

When quartzing a house with open-type lamps, it is imperative to follow the safety rules.

• The duration of the device should not exceed half an hour. Most often, it is included once a day for 15 minutes to cleanse the air.
• After quartzing or a treatment session, the room must be ventilated.
• Under the irradiator, you can not sunbathe or look at it without glasses - you can get an eye burn.

For quartzing at home, where there are always people, it is recommended to choose devices of a closed type. They have titanium glass protection. The lamps disinfect the air, but do not produce ozone and do not emit UV rays into the room. The advantage of lamps at an affordable price. In families where there are patients with hypertension or peptic ulcer, as well as tuberculosis or cancer, you will have to refuse the purchase.

The benefits of quartzization in medicine

In order not to get sick during an outbreak of seasonal diseases, it is useful to disinfect the air in the apartment and in the workplace several times a day. If you have a flu patient in your home, UV exposure will prevent family members from becoming infected.

General quartzing at home is useful for such diseases:

• flu, acute respiratory infections;
• skin problems - pustular rash (pyoderma), furunculosis, atopic dermatitis;
• common psoriasis;
• daylight compensation for people whose work is associated with a lack of daylight (miners, submariners);
• to normalize phosphorus-calcium metabolism;
• inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system - chronic bronchitis, laryngotracheitis;
• prevention and treatment of rickets in babies.

In addition to local effects on the skin, ultraviolet rays strengthen the immune system. Quartzing compensates for the lack of daylight in winter, so it relieves fatigue. Under the influence of rays, vitamin D is produced in the skin, without which calcium is poorly absorbed from carrots and other vegetables.

Local quartzization of parts of the human body helps in the treatment of the following diseases:

• erysipelas in the acute and chronic stages;
• shingles;
• pressure sores;
• bronchial asthma;
• rheumatoid arthritis;
• acute and chronic neuritis and neuralgia.

The benefits of quartzization of the oral and nasal cavity have been proven with the following pathologies:

• acute otitis media;
• ARI, pharyngitis;
• gingivitis;
• periodontal disease;
• tonsillitis.

Important!

There seems to be no disease left in which UV exposure does not help. But you can not use this method without consulting a doctor. Quartzing refers to physiotherapeutic methods of treatment.

What is the harm of quartzization?

Carefully read the instructions for use. In families with patients, air disinfection can be harmful.

The following contraindications are available for quartzing at home:

• the presence of cancer;
• active tuberculosis;
• chronic hepatitis and nephritis with organ failure;
• tendency to bleeding;
• temperature increase;
• hyperthyroidism;
• digestive ulcer.

In addition to contraindications, harm from quartzing at home can be associated with improper use of the device. Especially careful should use open type lamps.

Important!

If you look at the emitter with unprotected eyes, you will get a corneal burn.

Do not leave the device turned on for a long time - ultraviolet radiation has a negative effect on the whole body. Keep manual devices out of the reach of children.

Disinfection of air by quartzing at home is useful in the cold season to prevent infections.The procedure will strengthen immunity, prevent the spread of influenza to other seven members. On the recommendation of a doctor, the device is used to treat respiratory organs and the musculoskeletal system. Quartzing does not harm if used correctly.