Best lung & respiratory diseases books according to redditors

I've been doing this on a smaller scale than office in the picture at my house for the last several years. I used the TED talk and the book How to Grow Fresh Air to pick my plants. I have snake plant, English ivy, golden pathos, areca palm, and peace lily primarily but I do have others that I grow just because I enjoy the look of them.

I live in a house that was built within the last ten years. All of the new carpet, paint, etc. is off gassing. Weather and my husband's seasonal allergies prevent me from opening the windows as much as I'd like. We cook a lot and have pets. I started noticing that the air in the house was stale and sour.

I didn't have a huge budget for plants so I got the smallest/least expensive that were available at my local nursery. The cheapest were 99 cents and I don't think I paid more than $5 for the most expensive. Since the pots were small those were also pretty cheap. The one thing I didn't skimp on was soil. I got the best potting soil they had. But again since my plants and pots were small I didn't need that much.

I began to notice results the next day. I walked in to my house and where before the air would seem heavy, sour, just off somehow...I took a breath and was just breathing clean air.

The plants require maintenance of course. After a while I began to notice that the air wasn't as fresh as it was when I had first gotten them. I didn't know you had to dust/clean the leaves. I took a damp paper towel and gently wiped all of the leaves. As soon as I did that I got my wonderful fresh air back. I tried to put them all on the same watering schedule. Some of them dry out in a day and a half, others take a week or more. So I had to start doing quick do you need to be watered checks every day or two for a while. Now I have a pretty good schedule.

tl;dr This really works. You don't have to have a jungle. Even a few houseplants of the right type and properly cared for make a difference.

House plants. They remove odor-causing indoor air pollutants and increase the humidity in a room.

How to Grow Fresh Air includes a list of house plants that work best at removing toxins, including odors, and rates them by level of care needed to keep them alive. It was written by B.C. Wolverton after working with NASA to improve air and water quality by using plants.

You'd be surprised. You can fit several plants into one large pot and keep them near a window. I just finished placing several plants all over the house because of these studies. I'd recommend a book by B. C. Wolverton How to Grow Fresh Air: 50 House Plants that Purify Your Home or Office. You can find other documents on Hawaii's govt website and other things, but this book shows how to care for them. Most are really simple and just need water every week or so, which takes all of 10 mins to do.

That sounds like crazy talk. Never heard of office plants being a vector Legionnaire's disease before. Large quantities of stagnant water that become aerosolized is the commonly known and accepted vector for that.

Sounds like an excuse to make you get rid of the tree for whatever reason. But if you wanted to fight it, science is on your side here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legionnaires%27_disease#Cause

House/office plants are actually good for air purity. Maybe order a copy of this book for whoever made that decision.

UNJERK ANSWER: I get a flu shot annually. Why: my doc, who took a specialty in tropical diseases in Australia, follows this sort of thing closely. He told me: "No one ever gets 'a touch of the flu'--full-blown influenza is 9-10 days of serious illness, which should be spent at home in bed or in a hospital. A flu shot isn't bulletproof but reduces the chances of you getting influenza." Clearly that's important for kids/elderly, but he also pointed out that you don't want to get influenza during, say, an outbreak of SARS--you'll be quarantined for something you don't have.

Think of things in those terms.

And yes, I was living in HK when the reports of vinegar-boiling in Guangzhou came in. At the time we just thought, eh, those wacky cousins north of the border. A few months later it was apparent that things were serious.

An excellent book (with a lousy title) on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/China-Syndrome-Story-Centurys-Epidemic-ebook/dp/B000SEHJLQ/ref=sr_1_1

They shut down schools a week early here in HK. The mainland?

This book is an excellent resource for house plants that will remove toxins, remove CO2, and produce oxygen.

It turns out that a lot of palms do a very good job with producing oxygen. You should put one or two in your room.

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The Areca Palms are pretty hard to kill and pretty cheap at the store for small ones...I had four and am down to three. There is a book about the 50 best houseplants to get, too.

I've got a peace lily there which really isn't big enough. I'm a newbie at growing plants but I know I want a good-looking air-filtering plant.

Dr. Wolverton's book gave me a few ideas:

• Bamboo Palm
  
• Areca Palm
  
• Dracaena Janet Craig
  
• Dwarf Date Palm
  
  The palms look the best to me, but the Janet Craigs at the garden centre all look amazingly pristine and healthy and are supposed to be very easy to care for. Lady Palm's are supposed to be excellent air-filtering plants, but the ones I saw all had ugly brown tips. I'm also mildly worried that I'll mismanage a palm and it will look awful instead of beautiful.
  
  What do you guys think?
  
  

Nonfiction:

I thought that

China Syndrome: The True Story of the 21st Century's First Great Epidemic, by Karl Taro Greenfeld

was pretty good.

(A) Lots of government denial / cover-ups / incredible inefficiency.

(B) We basically have no defense at all against these things except for our natural biological mechanisms and sheer dumb luck. There's no way at all to adequately control people and prevent them from doing things that will spread the pandemic.

- http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/B001G8WLCA/ref=sib_dp_bod_ex/181-0632544-9984625?ie=UTF8&p=S00N#reader-link -