What is “humidifier pneumonia”?

  For “humidifier pneumonia”, probably most of us are the first time to hear about it and do not know what it is? But it is already present in our lives. Now it’s winter again, the weather is cold, although in a heated room, the temperature is pleasant, but the humidity is poor. It’s too dry indoors, what should we do? Many of us now like to put a few humidifiers indoors to provide some humidity to the dry room, not knowing that this also lays a hidden danger for health.  ”Humidifier pneumonia”, is the name of a disease, similar to air conditioning disease, the disease is mainly refers to the unscientific use of humidifiers, so that harmful microorganisms in the air into the human whistle, resistance to weak people will cause pneumonia.  There are two main reasons for its triggering: 1, excessive use of humidifiers, prolonged use of humidifiers, resulting in high indoor humidity, humid environment to mold and other pathogens to provide the conditions for growth, easy to trigger the whistling tract disease patients cough, pneumonia and many other diseases.  2, do not pay attention to the humidifier to clean up. The water in the humidifier is not flowing stagnant water, it is easy to adsorb and breed bacteria, these bacteria after the humidifier into bacteria-containing water mist, and then inhaled by you to the lungs, it is easy to cause whistling disease.  Therefore, in the future, when using humidifiers, we must pay attention to avoid these situations: 1, always have a humidity needle at home, as long as the humidity in the normal range, is to immediately stop using the humidifier, do not let the humidifier work within 24 hours.  2, need to replace the water inside the humidifier every day, it is best to use pure water, once a week to clean the humidifier. As long as this, you can make bacteria, mold, actinomycetes do not have the environment to grow and reproduce. Then they will not cause harm to the human body.  3, for families with elderly and small children and families with lung disease or whistling disease patients, it is best to take other ways to humidify the room.