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23/01/2013
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In the summer, he is the best friend of Rio. In the office, it is impossible to be without. And even when the heat wave gives a truce, not who pulls away for him to sleep. Subject of much controversy, the air conditioning is a refreshment and both the hottest season of the year, but its use needs moderation and common sense to not harm health.
According to the otolaryngologist Jair de Carvalho Castro, Rio Samaritan Hospital, is exaggerating the problem in regulating the device and make the environment very cold and dried:
- When the temperature drops, the defense systems of the nasal mucosa, throat and bronchi are compromised. The dryness impairs ciliary movement, hitting secretions with bacteria, fungi and viruses for disposal. This paves the way for infections and allergies, such as colds, rhinitis, sinusitis.
Skin and eyes also suffer from dryness and irritation. For allergist Flávia Salles Costa Janolio, President of the Brazilian Association of Allergy and Immunology in Rio de Janeiro, and avoid turning on the air conditioning on maximum, it is necessary maneirar sudden changes in temperature.
- What comes and goes from cold to hot unbalances the body - says the expert.
And nothing to get in a place with air conditioning and allow to dry wet clothes on the body from rain.
- The risk of infection greatly increases. Besides air conditioning, water evaporation will steal body heat. The defense system can not do the job - Jair Castro explains.
Source: Extra - Online
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