For several years already, teacher Marja Hänninen-Helin refuses to part with her indoor air purifying Naava.
Her battle with indoor air problems started at a school, where she developed serious health symptoms despite the recently completed renovation of the classrooms.
Hänninen-Helin's profession as a teacher was hindered by continuous headache and dizziness. While suffering from this ”weird” feeling, the teacher easily forgot what she had just talked about with her pupils. It was then, when a prototype of the Naava Original, still in a developmental phase, was installed to Hänninen-Helin’s classroom.
This marked the starting point for the multiphased story of eliminating the teacher’s symptoms and for the development of Naava to its current model.
Crucial role of active airflow
Ordinary house plants purify air and create comfort, but their capacity alone is not sufficient to erase indoor air related health symptoms. This is something Hänninen-Helin had to experience in an unpleasant way. Thanks to the Naava set up in the winter 2011, the spring semester for Hänninen-Helin, sensitized by indoor air, went without symptoms.
In the next autumn, at the beginning of the new school year, however, fierce dizziness started once again. It was believed that the Naava had not eliminated the health symptoms. As a consequence, the disappointed teacher took sick leave and decided to give up her Naava.
”I know that it works. Naava has been really useful and of concrete help, and by no means would I want to work without it.”
During the absence, however, the reason for the symptoms’ reappearance was discovered. The prototype, still in its developmental phase, had encountered an electrical fault, which had shut down the airflow of the whole product. Naava that normally would have actively purified the air had turned into a regular wall of house plants.
Naava was fixed, but Hänninen-Helin was nevertheless nervous about returning back to work. With a confused head and a dizzy feeling she would not be able to teach. After recovering at home, she returned from her sick leave to her work to find out that the symptoms did not reappear.
”Also other teachers noticed that the air in my classroom was notably more refreshing than in other places,"
Hänninen-Helin recalls. In addition to this, what’s worth noticing is that pupils with symptoms from other classrooms were moved to Hänninen-Helin’s classroom. No one in the Naava classroom complained about any health symptoms.
The best indoor air comes along
After the electrical fault had been fixed, the teacher who had now been able to enjoy an asymptomatic working environment in her own classroom, moved to another school to take the principal’s position in the autumn 2013.
In the summer, right before starting the school year, she visited the new school several times to get to know the new places and her new duties. The dizziness and headache that had stayed away for a long time started to bother her once again. Hänninen-Helin knew she was extremely sensitized to indoor air problems, and for this reason, Naava would need to follow her to her new job as well.
The beginning of the autumn did not go as well as the new principal had imagined. The latest model of Naava Original had been installed to her office, but the symptoms did not completely stay away.
”It felt as if the wall did not function perfectly. I immediately informed the company about the issue and the maintenance team showed up right away to check the state of the wall," Hänninen-Helin praises Naturvention’s effecient maintenance service.
The power of the fans, which was slightly too low, had already been spotted with the help of remote monitoring. When the fans were adjusted to their right intensity, the symptoms disappeared and have not returned since.
The sensitized teacher, who in many places quickly develops symptoms, is pleased to have found a solution to put an end to the spiral caused by indoor air problems. ”If I am allowed to take the Naava with me, I am confident to work in such places where it otherwise would not be possible.”
”Naava saved me from new sick leaves and from a downward spiral of indoor air problems. That pays back the wall multiple times.”
Say goodbye to indoor air problems
When Hänninen-Helin looks back to the past years and her history of symptoms, she finds a clear connection between her health issues and the use of the Naava.
”I know that it works. Naava has been really useful and of concrete help, and by no means would I want to work without it”. Once, she visited a place where they used a similar Naava. ”The air there felt familiar and comfortable right away”.
In Hänninen-Helin’s opinion, the health and wellbeing of a person are of great value and therefore Naava is something worth investing in. Before installing Naava, she had to stay away from her work due to the indoor air problems. ”Naava saved me from new sick leaves and from a downward spiral of indoor air problems. That pays back the wall multiple times.”
The story of Hänninen-Helin could have ended in another way. As a sensitized person she knows how it feels like to wonder if one is able to be in any place without the symptoms. ”I am truly thankful that I tried Naava because of my symptoms and found help”.
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