Allergy is a serious, chronic diseases which promises to become a threat of this new Millennium. Thanks to the rapid growth and industry progress in all sectors, chemicals and pollution are weakening our immune system, exposing it to all kind of attacks and making it react in ways that we cannot predict.

Allergy is this situation when the body perceives usually harmless substances such as dust, mold, or pollens as dangerous, and it is reacting to them, sometimes with violence, generating what we call allergy symptoms.

For dust-allergic people, cleanliness is extremely important, because it reduces the quantity of dust they get in contact with, thus keeping them symptom-free. However, dusting and vacuum cleaning alone cannot remove a big part of this dust, which remains in the air, and gets inhaled by people living in that household.

Using a steam cleaner gives you additional benefits, compared to the regular vacuum cleaning: the power of the steam kills the dust mites, germs, molds, bacteria and other creatures that may give us allergic reactions. Besides, steam can reach where no cloth or dusting feather can penetrate.

The principle is extremely simple: steam is generated by heated water, then it goes through the head of the cleaning machine and gets in contact with the surface to be cleaned, removing dirt in its way. Small drops of water which remain on the surface after the jet passes can be easily removed with a piece of cloth.

The jet of vapors is highly pressurized and very hot, so living micro-organisms that stay in its way get killed instantly. Besides, the stream of vapors can clean in places where no dust feather or cleaning device can reach. Because of their efficiency and because of their mechanism of action, steam cleaners are good for allergy sufferers. They are not exactly cheap, but they run on water, so you’d save money on cleaning products. And if you’re allergic to dust or mold, you’ll feel the difference.