How to use air conditioning in summer for ... good?

The temperature of the air conditioner keeps the body from sweating, especially children, helping to limit the loss of salt and dehydration of the body. But we should also know how to use air conditioning to avoid harmful aspects.

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Children running and playing, adults working in the hot weather, profound perspiration into the air-conditioned room have a temperature too different from the temperature outside the environment, leading to rapid changes in body temperature. patients will feel chills, shudder, goose bumps due to peripheral vasoconstriction and skin pores to retain heat.

If the body does not adjust, especially in people with chronic diseases such as hypertension, low blood pressure, diabetes, newly sick people, young children . can have serious consequences like dizziness, fainting, face distortion due to nerve paralysis that controls the movement of the facial muscles (because this wire is very shallow) also called peripheral VII paralysis, cerebral vascular accident . even death.

Usually these people see a sore throat, a dry throat, a few hours later a fever of 38-39oC even up to 40oC, a runny nose, coughing, first coughing after coughing with thin white sputum. People with allergic conditions when entering the air-conditioned room will sneeze in the colon, itchy nose, the tip of the nose is red, sometimes watery, suffocate completely or partly depending on the patient. Especially there is a sudden cold due to air conditioning.

Skin manifestations of the whole body are very cold, the mucous membranes of the nose and throat are pale, increase in fluid secretion, edema of the nose, may be light purple. In this case, the air conditioner should be turned off immediately, warmed up until you get sweaty, drink warm water, if you can add a bit of grilled ginger as possible, use some medicines like babyplex, decolgen .

If after 2 days of taking the medicine, the above signs do not help but become more and more severe such as prolonged fever, greenish nose, increased cough, thick sputum, sometimes difficult breathing, especially in young children . need to be examined by a doctor to have correct and timely treatment.

Improper use of air conditioner is one of the favorable factors to trigger allergic rhinitis, bronchial asthma, spasm of bronchitis . Prevent this harm by : to regulate temperature without difference much with environmental temperature (about 4-5 ^o ). Avoid letting the air conditioner blow straight into the sleeping area. Wipe off the sweat before entering the air-conditioned room. Leave the water in the room to use the air conditioner to increase the humidity in the room.

Those who are required to work in central air-conditioned rooms, low temperature should bring coats and long-sleeved shirts when working depending on their tolerance.