How can an air conditioner effect your daily life?
Nowadays, an air conditioner is an essential commodity for most of us. Slowly this machine becomes a part of our life, and practically we get attached to this. It is necessary, especially in hot weather countries, where the temperature reaches 40 to 45 degrees centigrade in the summer. But many of us have too much confusion on the effect of using the AC on our health. So, in this post, we will discuss the good and bad effects of using ACs.
First of all, we have to understand that if you overuse anything and get habituated with it, this may cause trouble.
Harmful effects of overusing ACs
Fatigue and illness
According to research, people who work in air-conditioned rooms may experience headaches, fatigue, and chronic illness. If you work in an office where the air conditioner continuously pumped cool air all over the day, you may feel tiredness and breathing issues. The cool, dry air of AC can dry the mucous membrane and increase the possibilities of flu, cold, and other chronic illness. That’s why in this pandemic situation, doctors recommend not to use ACs all day.
The dryness of skin
Who doesn’t like the cool air of air conditioners? But this cool and dry air can seriously damage your skin by pull out moisture from your skin. For those who already suffered from dry skin problems, the AC could damage it seriously.
Dehydration
As the dry air of AC continuously extracts body moisture, the rate of dehydration increases significantly. In the worse case, AC can suck too much humidity from the room, and you may feel dehydrated.
Although you may come out from this problem by keeping a water pot in the room, water quickly evaporated as in a dry environment. Also, drinking more water can save you from dehydration.
Breathing problems
Indirectly air conditioners can cause breathing issues and infection diseases like Legionairre’s Disease. In a closed environment, viruses, bacteria, and other micro-organisms can create breathing problems and other chronic diseases such as pneumonia.
Respiratory & eye problems
Those who stay in an air-conditioned environment for a long time, can experience respiratory problems, throat and eye issues too. Dry throat and nasal blockage are the common problems of using sir conditioner for a long time. In some cases, the dry, cool air can make our nerves dry, and this causes several eye infections.
Asthma and allergies
For people who have asthma or allergies, it’s good not to use the AC all the time. If your AC is not properly cleaned and maintained, it could increase the risks of asthma and allergies.
Headaches
Headache is another side effect of using ACs. If you suddenly enter an AC room or go outside in the heat from a cool environment, you might get a headache.
The inability to deal with heat
Air conditioner reduces our efficiency to deal with hot summer temperatures.
Positive side of using a AC
Now, we should look at the benefits of the controlled use of air conditioners. Although there are many harmful impacts on our health, the cool air of an AC can enhance our working ability. Research had done on this in 2019 by an educational organization “Online Typing.org.” They commence an experiment on a total of 60 students. First, they divided the students into two groups and trained them to type fast. After 30 days of practicing on the same content and appear on the same exercises, they found that the performance of those students who set in a cool room is better than the other students. Although, the students have almost the same IQ level and learning ability.
This thing clearly proved that a cool environment could enhance your working ability, and that’s why using an AC can be beneficial to enhance working power.
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