Air conditioning syndrome

Air conditioning is a must-have in the hot summer. Even at night in summer, people will feel very hot, not to mention during the day, so the air conditioners at home or in the workplace are turned on all day long. Staying in an air-conditioned room can help relieve the heat, but if you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time without going out to move around, you will easily suffer from air-conditioning syndrome.

Air conditioning syndrome is a disease that most urban people suffer from nowadays. Its main cause is that the patient stays in the air-conditioned room for a long time. The air circulation in the air-conditioned room is poor, which makes it easy for bacteria to grow. It is also relatively dry, which can easily reduce people's physical fitness.

Air-conditioning syndrome occurs because the room is tightly sealed, the air flow is poor, the air volume is small, the windows are not opened for a long time, and there is insufficient sunlight, which makes the humidity and temperature conditions in the room a breeding ground for pathogenic factors, causing various microorganisms such as mold, bacteria, and viruses to multiply and parasitize on bedding, carpets, curtains, and furniture.

In such an environment, people are prone to diseases caused by microorganisms because a large number of microorganisms breed there. Also, the temperature is set too low, with a large temperature difference from the outdoor temperature, making it easy to catch a cold when going in and out. The symptoms of air-conditioning disease mainly include physical lesions caused by alternating hot and cold temperatures, diseases caused by microorganisms, and discomfort in joint circulation that is common in constant temperature cold places. Air-conditioning disease is often a complex disease with several symptoms occurring simultaneously.

The main symptoms of air-conditioning syndrome vary depending on each person's adaptability. The common symptoms include fear of cold, fatigue, soreness of muscles and joints in the limbs, headache, back pain, and severe cases may also cause facial paralysis. The reason is that the vascular and nerve functions of the local ear tissues are disordered, causing spasms of the small arteries located in the stylomastoid foramen, causing primary ischemia of the facial nerves, followed by venous congestion and edema, which in turn compresses the facial nerve, causing the corner of the mouth on the affected side to become crooked.

Staying in an air-conditioned room for a long time is harmful to the body, so you must open the windows for ventilation throughout the day to keep the air in the room fresh. In addition, when the air conditioner is turned on, it will take away the moisture in the room, so you can put a basin of water in the air-conditioned room to increase the humidity of the air in the room.