Home air purifiers effective for improving indoor air quality?

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Air purifier filter in just 15 days.

How much of our lives are we throwing it away by merely breathing in an Indian city?
This is what we can see that prefilter catches. Pm 2.5 we cant even see easily. So if PM 10 is low and PM2.5 is high then air might look ok but is still bad.
My asthma and allergy symptoms are much better after using AP + regular Vaccum cleaning + regularly wash bed stuff and curtains.
But there is still exposure when i get out and also in air pockets around windows where air is leaking in.

Every city i have been outside India (Canada/US/Israel) has had very clean air and i never had any respiratory issues at all. In India its reverse ..
Also Indian houses don't have hvac type stuff generally, perhaps because temperatures are moderate ( but it can be so cold in winter in north).
 
@lockhrt999
Which city are you in? What model purifier? In the Living Room or Bedroom?
Pune.
Xiaomi 4 lite.
Kitchen.
This is what we can see that prefilter catches. Pm 2.5 we cant even see easily. So if PM 10 is low and PM2.5 is high then air might look ok but is still bad.
Very true. There's no visual cue for PM2.5 pollution. It perhaps gives a uniform bluish tint (from the sky) to very distant dark shadows on a nice sunny day.

Pune, on most days, has higher PM10 pollution than PM2.5. And, that's what we see on the prefilter.
 
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