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Cleaner air at home through the heating season
Ventilation, extraction and damp cleaning do more than they seem to. Five habits for the cold months.
Demo profile. A fictional specialist created for the website mock-up. The photo shows a stock model, not the person named. Replace with a real expert with written consent before publishing. The air we breathe: the city, the home, the heating season Almaty Dinara works on something rarely visible in a consulting room: she looks at the health of whole cities. Her job is to compare air monitoring data with clinic visits and explain what those numbers mean for an ordinary person on a particular Tuesday. She insists that smog is neither a verdict nor a reason to seal yourself indoors for the whole winter. It is far more useful to know your district, the rush hours and a few simple rules: when to ventilate, when to move a run indoors, when to wear a respirator. In her Densaulyq Life materials she stays away from apocalyptic framing: her aim is for the reader to leave the article with a plan, not with anxiety. Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University, preventive medicine, 2013 Master's in epidemiology, 2016 Works with air quality monitoring data from Kazakh cities Takes part in school programmes on lung disease prevention
Ventilation, extraction and damp cleaning do more than they seem to. Five habits for the cold months.
Still days in the heating season are no reason to panic — but a good reason to know a few simple rules.