The use of air conditioning does not produce a direct causal relationship with any disease. In other words, in modern medicine, air conditioning disease is just a generalization of a group of discomfort symptoms, but it is also not a real disease in itself.
However, studies have shown that people who spend long periods of time in air-conditioned rooms are more likely to experience physical discomfort and thus potential health effects than people who stay in rooms with good air circulation.
A. What effects does it have on our health?
1. Catching a cold
Although the symptoms of catching a cold are similar to a cold, catching a cold is not a cold. When the temperature difference is too large, in order to combat the low temperature, the body’s thermoregulatory center will make urgent adjustments, and people may have a stuffy nose, runny nose, diarrhea and other symptoms, which is a cold.
2.Allergic diseases
If the indoor air does not circulate, and you are a person prone to allergies, it may cause rhinitis, itchy eyes, headache, dizziness and breathing difficulties. In more serious cases, it may also lead to pneumonia or asthma.
3.Dry nose and skin
Due to the cooling mechanism of the air conditioner decision, the cold air blown out of the air conditioner relative humidity is mostly low, that may lead to dry nasal cavity and skin.
4.Upper respiratory tract infection
dry nasal mucosa, reducing the resistance of germs from the respiratory tract into the body, making people vulnerable to upper respiratory tract infections.
5.Difficulty in tolerating high temperature
Staying indoors with air conditioning for a long time, once outside, it may be difficult to tolerate high temperatures
6.Spreading diseases
Office or large indoor public places, these environments are relatively high population density areas. Once one of them is sick, in the case of poor air circulation, can quickly spread to others.
How to be healthy and comfortable at the same time? The existence of these health effects does not mean that we can not use air conditioning, on the contrary, we just need to pay attention to the method, it is possible to make both comfort and health.
Second, how to treat specific air conditioning disease
1, whether young or middle-aged or elderly friends, open the air conditioning, do not let the temperature difference between indoor and outdoor too large, the room temperature can be maintained between 24 ℃ to 25 ℃.
2, ask professionals to regularly repair and clean the air conditioner, at least once a year.
3, the use of humidifiers, so that the indoor humidity between 60% to 70%, there are studies show that when the air humidity in this range, the ability to infect the cold virus can be rapidly reduced.
4.Turn off the air conditioner and open the windows for ventilation when people are not indoors.
5, make a habit of drinking water and moisturizing the skin.
Air conditioning does not cause air conditioning disease, but improper use, and may indeed lead to human discomfort, creating a potential health threat.