Air conditioned room effects on body

Air conditioning does have some benefits:

• It helps one to work and concentrate better in a cool environment than a hot environment
• It helps to prevent heat exhaustion and heat stroke

Air conditioning have some disadvantages too:

• Air conditioners suck moisture out of a room to bring down the humidity and cool it off and hence it dry out your body from your scalp to eyes, nose, mouth, throat , chest and skin.
• It also circulates dust , chemicals , bacteria and virus causing us more exposure to them

General

• Tiredness and dizziness and sickness feeling
  • ‘Sick building syndrome’ – If socialising/working in air-conditioned building with poor ventilation
• By having the air conditioner at cooler temperatures constantly, one can become used to this temperature. This means that when you need to do something outside in the real air temperature your body can become very stressed
• One may also find that your body struggles with the adjustment from cold to hot then back to cold environments.
• Poor sleep

Hair

• Hair loss – extreme temperature change can damage the hair.

• • The room is arid and dry when the air conditioner is running, which means that the humidity from the air is sucked away
  • Air conditioners can peel away any moisture not just the one in the air but in your body too
  • When moisture is pulled out of the skin it stretches and dries up
  • Your system is generally not protected enough to combat dryness due to air conditioning
  • Dry skin feels itchy and becomes flaky – scalp also dries up due to air conditioning and aggravates skin disorders
  • Air conditioning robs the epidermis of all its moisture
  • There is constant loss of water and lack of replacement of the water that leaves skin tissues undernourished
  • With no moisture, the ageing process is hastened
  • When you walk out of the cold atmosphere back into the sun, the hair, scalp and skin are greeted with abrupt changes in temperatures – which is extremely harmful
  • As a result of all of the above, the skin is constantly stressed out and struggling to maintain its own health
  • With exalted comfort levels, we also compromise our diet that further leads to lack of vital nutrients and hair loss

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Head

• Headaches – the brain can temporarily contract or shrink as a consequence, triggering a pain response in the membrane surrounding the brain and/or ‘Sick building syndrome’ – If socialising/working in air-conditioned building with poor ventilation
• Migraines
• Dehydration
• Allergy

Eyes

• Dehydration
• Dry eyes – irritated, inflamed and itchy
• Allergy

Nose 

• Dehydration
• Runny nose/sneezing – nose/nostrils are irritated and inflamed
• Dry nose/nostrils – leading to nose bleeds and nasal infection
• Nasal infections due to increase circulation of virus, fungi, bacteria and allergens
• Allergy
• Dehydration

Mouth/Throat

• Dehydration
• Dry mouth
• Dry throat – leading to throat infection
• Throat infection due to increase circulation of virus, fungi, bacteria and allergens
• Allergy

Chest

• Cough
• Worsening of respiratory condition
• Respiratory infection due to increase circulation of virus, fungi, bacteria and allergens
• Allergy

Arms, backs and Legs muscles

• Dehydration
• Muscle cramps
• Muscle pain as muscles become dehydrated and/or  too cold, tense up and ache
• Joint pain – bones to become weaker, this is because when we are exposed to cool temperatures, our bodies tend to lose calcium.

Skin

• Dehydration
• Dry skin (including eczema)
• Allergy