It’s that time of year again when you need to wrestle with whether or not to turn on the air conditioning, and I hope this article provides help for many moms and dads. To refute that air conditioning makes people sick is really just a matter of asking the question, “Is air conditioning on in the hospital?” Even the hospital, the world’s most sick place is open to air conditioning, then the existence of “air conditioning disease” is a bit strange, right? Contrary to the fear of many elderly people that their babies will get sick from air conditioning, the reasonable use of air conditioning will make your baby healthier. We will not just tell you that “hospital maternity wards and baby rooms have air conditioning”, but we will start with the working principle of air conditioning: no matter what high-tech concepts are blown in the advertisements, air conditioning relies on the continuous cycle of compression by the compressor, which compresses the coolant gas into a liquid outdoors and exerts heat; indoors, the liquid evaporates into a gas and absorbs heat. evaporate into a gas, absorbing heat. The indoor temperature will be sucked outdoors, thus cooling. Of course, in cooling at the same time, it also does one thing, is to remove moisture, the water vapor cooled into water flow out. So what the air conditioner can do is provide a dry, cool environment. If this would make people sick, then the people of Canada, Northern Europe or Heilongjiang would not be so stout. There is also a need to clarify, the current household staple split air conditioners, is not going to change the air, only coolant and drainage pipes between indoor and outdoor connection, so even if the haze and other pollution weather, you do not need to worry about outdoor pollution and afraid to open the air conditioner. In fact if the air conditioning filter is cleaned regularly, the air conditioner will filter in the process of air circulation by the way, reducing airborne pollutants and purifying the air. In fact, the American Academy of Pediatrics AAP has long recommended that parents use air conditioning during the sweltering summer months. One of the leading causes of infant death in the United States is SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), which kills about 2,500 children between the ages of 1 month and 1 year each year. U.S. pediatricians have come up with many ways to reduce SIDS. In addition to switching babies from sleeping prone to lying on their backs, turning on the air conditioner in hot weather has been shown to be a very effective and important way to reduce sudden infant deaths. Also, air conditioning can reduce the incidence of many diseases including asthma and allergies. High temperatures and high humidity are two killers that threaten children’s health. Children’s bodies are poorly adapted to temperature, and high temperatures can easily cause heat stroke, dehydration and even sudden death. And high humidity, in addition to exacerbating the severity of heat stroke, can also stimulate children’s respiratory tract, triggering asthma, and of course, including the baby always get prickly heat, eczema and other skin inflammation. Of course so that air conditioning disease does not exist, is not convince all grandparents grandparents, because they personally experience in the air conditioning room for a long time uncomfortable, feeling will be headaches and fever, these feelings may be true, but not because the air conditioning is not good, but because of improper use of air conditioning or other reasons caused by: 1, simple discomfort: the elderly themselves are afraid of cold is the main reason, sometimes cold air directly blowing The body will also bring the adverse effects of body temperature drops too quickly. 2, headache body sore: that is likely because you do not open the window for too long, lack of oxygen, or sit too long, get up to exercise for a change of wind. 3, easy to catch a cold and fever: cold is normal, most babies on average will catch a cold more than 4 times a year, the cold is caused by viruses, not cold wind, even if the real reason from the air conditioning, you can only forget to clean the air conditioning filters, air bacteria more. How to solve these common improper use of the problem, we give reasonable use of air conditioning recommendations are: 1, every summer before the start of use, cleaning an air conditioning filter, if the winter also need to use air conditioning heating in southern cities, the end of the summer should also be cleaned once, of course, 1-2 months in the use of summer cleaning is also good. 2, in hot and hot weather, be sure to open the air conditioning! Reasonable use of air conditioning can avoid the anecdotal “air conditioning disease”, but if you refuse to air conditioning, is actually let the baby face heat stroke, allergies, breathing difficulties, heat rash, eczema and other risks or even threaten life, the weight is not difficult to distinguish. 3, most of the central air conditioning ventilation system, split air conditioning is not, coupled with the small space at home, has been open air conditioning will have a lack of oxygen, air quality and other problems. So do not open all day air conditioning, it is best to use only in the high temperature from noon to afternoon, as well as at night when sleeping. And in the morning and evening when it is cooler must open the windows for ventilation. 4, pay attention to the wind direction of the outlet to avoid blowing directly to people, especially babies, cribs to be in the room away from the location of the air conditioner, which can ensure that the temperature will not suddenly lower, but a slow and gentle change. 5, the temperature adjustment should not be too low, but Chinese families are basically very careful about this, the old American pediatrician’s recommendation is generally 20-22 degrees, domestic families are estimated at 25-28 degrees it. 6, a long time in the air-conditioned room, pay attention to drink more water and skin moisturizing. 7, if you really can not use air conditioning, such as the elderly can not be cold, then the best alternative is an electric fan + dehumidifier. The premise is that you can tolerate the noise of the dehumidifier. 8, of course, over-reliance on air conditioning is not good, do not really try to create a “constant temperature” environment for children. You need to use the air conditioning reasonably, so that the baby gradually adapt to the heat and cold, to enhance the immune and thermoregulatory capabilities.