Image: ben bryant / Shutterstock.comIt’s a strange irony trying to sleep in summer: You are exhausted from the heat, but it is the same scorching temperatures that keep you from drifting away. To things to cool off, you can contact one electric fan turn. Unfortunately, it turns out that the choice is this Solution to serious adverse effects on your body may have.
A good night’s sleep is essential for a variety of reasons, of obvious advantages like one better job performance up to improved heart and brain health. How much sleep you need is less specific, however. Although it is widely believed that Adults between seven and nine hours a night need.
1. The difficulty of falling asleep quickly and easily
For example, it is more likely that you will Difficulty falling asleep have if it particularly damp is. There are some obvious solutions, however; For example, you can try the Open window. But if it is very hot and humid outside and there’s no breeze to speak of, this plan won’t help much.
As much as we would all love to have eight hours of constant sleep each night, there are things that do beyond our control lie and those of this Take into account the idea can. Yes, as if turning off your brain wasn’t hard enough already, you did also factors like the weather that you have to deal with.
2. Keep the bedroom cold
However, people often grab it on an electric fan in her bedroom back. And there are actually a couple of reasons it might be useful, even over and above that pure cooling of the room out. For example one sounds Fan like white noise which can be helpful to drown out noisy neighbors or background noise.
Alternatively, there are ways to keep your bedroom from getting too warm. In the UK advises the NHS To “use shadows or reflective materials outside the windows”. But if that doesn’t work, you can keep the rooms cool by simply closing the curtains. But keep in mind that you need light-colored curtains because darker curtains have the opposite effect.
3. A deadly fan?
A fan can also let the air circulate in the room, in order to prevent the air from being smelly becomes. But even given these supposed advantages, it’s worth weighing them against the possible disadvantages when using the device keeps going all night.
In some parts of the world, it will be viewed as a very bad idea. Take for example Korea, Where “Fan death” is a nasty superstition is. Belief assumes that a fan works in one otherwise closed room switched on remains, can be fatal. There’s of course no scientific evidence that supports this fear, but even beyond this theory there seem to be reasons for one Do not operate the fan overnight.
4. Sore throat caused by fans at night
If you’re with the Fan close to your face or exposed areas of your body, you may wake up feeling a little sore. According to Reddick, the Cool air from the fan will affect your muscles.
For example said Dr. Dasha Fielder 2016 towards the Lifestyle website Mamamiathat the link between waking up with a sore throat and a fan that is turned on all night was, is purely coincidental. “I think what sometimes happens when people wake up with a sore throat is that it has nothing to do with turning on the fan and a lot more with to sleep with your mouth open“, she said.
5. The disadvantages of a fan
Finally a fan doesn’t just circulate air. Remaining dust or pollen particles are also zoomed through the room. And if you at Suffer from hay fever, asthma or allergies, you probably don’t want this get into your airways. So check your fan blades to make sure they are not covered with dust are.
We’re not just talking about them here, either Amount of your electricity bill. According to scientists, sleeping with a fan can have serious consequences for your body and health. And while these don’t necessarily affect everyone alike, if you plan on using a fan to keep them cool, keep them in mind.
6. Protect your eyes
If you do not sleep with your eyes closed – which, according to Reddick, actually happens – the air flowing out of the fan can make them appear red. And we all know that Pain of waking up with a dry mouth – something that, according to Reddick, having a fan running all the time will only make it worse.
But even if you are with sleep tightly closed eyes and closed mouth and have no allergies, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you have no consequences. “The constant flow of air also tends to dry out your nasal passages, which could affect your sinuses,” says Reddick. “If the Drought particularly extreme this can lead to Your body produces excess mucus to compensate for this. ”
7. Allergy triggers
Indeed, like him The Independent in July 2018 said, “When you sneeze or yourself worsening nasal symptoms have and Indoor allergies because air blows up your nasal passages and forcibly Causes sneezing, What actually a protective mechanism this can be annoying and may cause your nasal allergies to flare up. ”
However, triggering allergies isn’t the only downside if you leave a fan on all night. According to Mark Reddick of The Sleep Advisor Air that constantly hits your skin can cause dehydration. And then you have to apply additional moisturizers and lotions to counteract the drought.
8. Take care of your fan
Dr. Fielder, however, admitted that if you’ve had it for a long time, it’s important to update your fan. “Of course, every device has its expiration date. If you’ve had a fan for ten or 15 years, I think it’s time to replace it, ”she said. “For the I don’t see any problem in general population with a fan. ”
Others say the problem is the fan itself – whether you sleep with it or not. According to a 2012 Cochrane Library study, electric fans appear to be ineffective at a certain temperature. According to the study’s authors, the machines actually can “More harm than good” dish up.
9. Rising temperatures
Because if the Temperature over 95 degrees rise, you blow no cool air more around. Instead, you could blow air over yourself that is warmer than your body temperature. This increases the risk of heat exhaustion from excessive sweating – even if the fan still feels like it’s doing its job.
Day or night when you leave a fan on, this can possibly have consequences for your health or that of other people. This is especially the case when You are prone to allergies. So if you do that Find too much heat next time, should you switching on the fan rethink.
10. The Davis Cripes case
Reaching the fan is however not the only dangerous habit that the hot weather can promote. Yes, if you feel sluggish in hot weather, it is normal for you a pick-me-up in the form of a sweet and refreshing drink to wish. However, this also comes with a risk.
As the Teenager Davis Cripe died, after he regularly drank soft drinks his father knew he had to give a warning. Davis Cripe came out Richland County in South Carolina and was 2017 a teenager like any other. He kept up with his studies, but had one too Passion for music, drums and guitar.
11. Unexpected death of Cripes
Of the 16-year-old turned from boy to man. Heartbreakingly, however, they would never see their child grow up because im April 2017 a tragedy occurred. One day Cripe got up as usual and went to school. But that afternoon when the teenager was in art class, he felt dizzy. Shortly thereafter he collapsed on the floor and a Ambulance was called.
Paramedics brought Cripe to the nearest hospital but when his classmates left school that day, he died. Cripe’s death came as a shock, especially for everyone who knew him as a healthy and happy young man.
12. No underlying disease – caffeine as the cause?
The teenager had no underlying illnesses and lived an active lifestyle. However, when Cripe’s schoolmates opened up about hours before his death, alarm bells began to ring. A friend of David Cripe, who was dating the teen on the day he died, announced that Cripe had consumed a lot of caffeine. In fact, the teenager had for a period of Had a latte and an energy drink for two hours.
Later confirmed the Richland County Coroner, Gary Watts, the speed with the cripe consumes the drinks had what to one “Heart event” Had led. However, he added that the teenager was very unhappy.
13. Too much caffeine in a short time
“You can hire five people all of them on that day exactly the same Caffeine drink to have. Or even drink more. And it can’t have any effect on them at all. ”Simply put, has Cripe, by contrast, consumed so much caffeine in such a short period of time that there was an arrhythmia. The condition prevents the heart from beating properly, and in this case, the teenager’s organ failed completely.
Understandably, they turned out to be Coroner’s findings for Cripe’s parents, Heidi and Sean, as very disturbing. You would never have imagined something so readily available when caffeinated drinks could claim your boy’s life. As a result, they had Struggling to come to terms with her loss.
