If you use air-conditioners in a wrong way,
it can make children have respiratory diseases.
The hot weather is so uncomfortable that
many families having children use air-conditioner more regularly. However,
using air-conditioner in a wrong way can cause respiratory diseases to
children.
Overusing the air-conditioner or using it
in a wrong way can make children have respiratory diseases, such as rhinitis,
bronchitis, pneumonia and sore throat, asthma… If children stay in
air-conditioned rooms in a long time, they can have dehydration, dry skin, be
attached by viruses and have respiratory diseases. The air-conditioner tends to
make respiratory glands dry, which leads to shortness of breath, fevers and
diarrhea… Especially, if you use air-conditioners but don’t give good care and
attention to children, they can have serious complications. So, how to use
air-conditioned rightly?
You
shouldn’t let children be in an air-conditioned room in successive 4 hours.
The ideal temperature: 7 degrees Celsius
When children sleep, their temperatures
decrease so they easily get sore throat and fever that leads to diarrhea.
However, many parents overuse air-conditioners and create a big different
between the temperatures in the room and the outside’s, which is not good for
children.
To keep children safe, parents should only
let the temperature of the house be around 25-27 degrees Celsius. It’ll be good
for children if the difference between the house’ and the outside’s
temperatures is as much as 7 degrees Celsius. For example, if the outside
temperature is 35 degrees, the one in air-conditioned room should be 28. And,
it won’t cause much trouble if the children keep running in and out of the
air-conditioned room.
Using time: less than 4 successive hours
You should turn off the air-conditioner 30
minutes before going out; at the same time, open the door so that the air can
be circulated and children can adjust to the outside temperature.
Hygiene
Parents take notice of cleaning the
air-conditioner recurrently to avoid molds and pathogens. Otherwise, the
air-conditioner will be the pathogenesis. The air-conditioned room also needs
to be clean. When you don’t use air-conditioners, you should let the door open
so that the room will be airy.
Parents
take notice of cleaning the air-conditioner recurrently to avoid molds and
pathogens.
Prevent sudden changes
Staying in an air-conditioned room all day
is a complete “shouldn’t”. Children who stay in air-conditioned room for 4
successive hours often have dry skin and sore throat. You should make them go
out of the air-conditioned room each 2-3 hours.
You
should make them go out of the air-conditioned room each 2-3 hours.
When the weather is hot and your children
have just got home, you shouldn’t let them go to the air-conditioned room right
away. Before going to the air-conditioned room, you should make your children
wait for a while and rub their sweat. And before the children leave the room,
you should open the door and let them get used to the outside temperature.
Before going to the air-conditioned room,
you should make your children wait for a while and rub their sweat.
Besides, when using air-conditioner,
parents shouldn’t let children go in and out of the air-conditioned room so
many times as the temperature difference between the air-conditioned place and
the place with no air conditioning. Parents should also use humidifiers in
addition. Remember to adjust the humidity in order not to cause respiratory inflammations
to children.
Drink water
You should make your children drink more
water, especially when the weather is hot and when they’re in air-conditioned
room in order to prevent dehydration. If children have dehydration, their
bodies will have respiratory cleaning and protection deficiency.
You
should make your children drink more water.
Ways to take care of children in air-conditioned room
·
Children need regular saline nose drops to
maintain the necessary humidity of the body and prevent dry nose.
·
Let them drink drinks that have the ability to
cool the body, such as lemonade, orange…
·
When children are sleeping, blanket them with a
thin blanket; you’d better cover their belly to prevent dilated pores that can
lead to a cold. You should put on your children clothes that are able to absorb
sweat, cotton ones, for example.
·
You should use ventilators at the same time with
air-conditioners.
·
Avoid letting children stay near the
air-conditioner to prevent stuffy nose, shortness of breath, respiratory
diseases and sore throat.
·
When children have shortness of breath, you
should take them to the doctor; do not let them take medicine without doctor’
Children need regular saline nose drops to maintain the necessary
humidity of the body and prevent dry nose.
However, if the
weather is cool, you should use fans instead of air-conditioner as the wing and
air are much better for us.
