{"id":11396,"date":"2021-04-27T05:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T10:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/?p=11396"},"modified":"2024-08-05T16:11:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T21:11:09","slug":"how-ultraviolet-light-kills-pathogens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/how-ultraviolet-light-kills-pathogens\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ultraviolet Light Kills Pathogens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_9 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>Germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C) is a proven technology that\u2019s been used in commercial and medical applications for decades. The EPA<a href=\"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/remedy-ultraviolet-water-purification-system\/#ref2\"><sup>2<\/sup><\/a>\u00a0describes UV water treatment as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cUV disinfection is an established technology supported by decades of fundamental and applied research and practice in North America and Europe.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUV light inactivates microorganisms by damaging their nucleic acid, thereby preventing them from replicating. A microorganism that\u00a0cannot replicate cannot infect a host.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/uv-absorbance.png\" alt=\"UV light absorbance graph\" width=\"675\" height=\"339\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>UV-C light is a broad-spectrum germicide, killing infectious bacteria, viruses, yeasts, molds, and other pathogens during the bath. It is able to kill highly virulent as well as drug-resistant pathogens including Legionella, MRSA, C-diff, and VRE. (See the side-bar for a CDC-cited study on the effectiveness of UV light in controlling Legionella in a hospital\u2019s water source.) Ultraviolet bath water treatment will not cure someone with an infection, nor is it 100% effective in preventing transmission and self-infection. What it does provide is a dramatic reduction in the levels of pathogens in bathwater, including pathogens left by inadequate surface disinfection or in impure tap water and the most significant source of bathwater pathogens \u2013 the resident being bathed. With that reduction in bathwater pathogens, you will see a documentable reduction in resident infection rates. The Remedy water purifier has been clinically proven to reduce UTIs by 50% and Respiratory Infections by 35%.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_12 et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_text_align_left\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See the results from an independent lab test of the Remedy UV System at reducing levels of Pseudomonas A. and E. Coli below:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/remedy-independant-lab-tests.jpg\" alt=\"Lab test graph\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" title=\"\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germicidal ultraviolet light (UV-C) is a proven technology that\u2019s been used in commercial and medical applications for decades. The EPA2\u00a0describes UV water treatment as follows: \u201cUV disinfection is an established technology supported by decades of fundamental and applied research and practice in North America and Europe.\u201d \u201cUV light inactivates microorganisms by damaging their nucleic acid, thereby preventing them from replicating. &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/how-ultraviolet-light-kills-pathogens\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1272,"featured_media":5287,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apollobath.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}