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• Want a great, green way to clean the air in your house?
• A new study by a California teenager suggests that a not-so-usual suspect -- the English ivy plant -- might be just the ticket.
• Ryan Kim, the son of an allergy researcher, found that an English ivy plant does a significant job of cleansing the air of mold particles and other nasty particulates, including canine fecal matter.
• "This may be a better alternative, and more cost-effective" than an electronic air purifier, said study co-author Hilary Spyers-Duran, a nurse practitioner and investigator at West Coast Clinical Trials in Long Beach, Calif.
• But an indoor-pollution specialist is skeptical of the plant-as-air-cleaner approach.
• He suggested that concerned residents try an old-fashioned method: ridding the house beforehand of contaminants that make the air dirty.
• Some house plants, including English ivy, have been touted for their air-cleaning properties.
• The younger Kim put moldy bread and dog feces in individual containers and measured how many particles spread into the air.
• The study findings were released this week at the annual meeting of the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology in Anaheim, Calif.
• The soil that feeds a plant also sends out its own potentially dangerous microbes and waste products, noted Jeffrey Siegel, an assistant professor of civil engineering at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Siegel, who specializes in indoor air quality, recommends that residents combat indoor pollution by getting rid of sources within the home.
• He doesn't recommend the use of ionizing air purifiers, which some researchers suspect actually boost levels of the pollutant ozone.
• In another study released at the allergy conference, researchers at West Coast Clinical Trials found that the Honeywell HEPA purifier did the best job out of three purifiers tested.

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