Hello! I work as a doctor for 21 years. My name is George O. Sapego. This article will tell you about how to increase the moisture content and why it is needed at home.
The microclimate of the house consists of three parts: the ventilation, temperature and humidity.
Ventilation in the first place, because without oxygen we can not survive. Every hour, we need an average of 30 cubic meters of fresh air.
When the cold season, the 30 cubic meters of flies in the room, we begin to freeze. Therefore, the air warms the next step. It's not obligatory. Coat or jacket will help us to survive in the cold air. That is warming the air at home, we not only survive, but to create comfort.
After warming the air relative humidity is reduced and the air is dry. If the outside temperature was -10 degrees and the humidity 80%, after heating of this air to the indoor humidity is 22 degrees will fall to 9 (nine)%.
The recommended humidity for premises should be in the range of 30 - 50%. If the humidity is below 30%, then begin to dry eyes, skin and houseplants. The dryness is possible to live, but for the comfort it would be desirable to add moisture. Therefore, people buy a humidifier.
What are humidifiers
There are three main types of humidifiers:
- traditional;
- ultrasound;
- steam.
Traditional
In a conventional humidifier is a filter or evaporating element, a surface of which water is evaporated in a conventional manner. About the same as the evaporating puddles after rain.
These moisturizers are the safest. Once the water evaporates, the air is further cooled and pleasant climate is obtained. With increasing humidity in the room Traditional humidifiers operate less efficiently. We can say that this is their dignity. They can not be too wet air.
ultrasound
About ultrasonic humidifiers I have a separate article. You can find it at the link below.
steam
Steam humectants evaporated by boiling water. It is safe. If not scalding. There are special children's steam humidifiers. They are protected from scalding at overturning. Disadvantages of steam humidifiers is that they guzzle a lot of energy and heat the air.
How to do without the humidifier
Without humidifier is possible to do. Previously, no humidifier was not. And how do without them? People lived to make room. The more people in the room, the more they exhale or evaporate moisture.
Cooking at home adds moisture away from the boiling pots and kettles. Washing and drying clothes in the living room also adds moisture. Plants evaporate water. All these additional sources of humidity.
Part of the moisture flies with the air in the ventilation. Remember the way from the street comes the cold air is warmed and absorbs water? He absorbs it, and then blows into the ventilation. It is possible to some extent to reduce the ventilation, humidity and older. This is true with good ventilation.
Yes, there is excessive ventilation. From street can fly unburned fuel or ozone, so too much fresh air may be harmful. About the extent to which the limit ventilation, it is necessary to talk separately. Let's think about how to add moisture improvised means.
If an urgent need to increase the humidity (eg, a cold), then quite regularly pokipyatit something in the kitchen. Possible after washing to hang wet clothes in the bedroom.
To start with the easiest way to open the door to the bathroom and turn on for about fifteen minutes a hot shower. Humidity will jump immediately. So easy to get the 60% relative humidity, that are useful for the duration of colds. But 60% do not support more than a few days. Otherwise, the house starts to grow mold and dust mites.
Have you noticed that high humidity during a cold is not always useful? Remember, as with an increase in body temperature somehow cough decreases? This is because the heat dries the bronchi. Ironically, sometimes it helps to get some sleep.
It even seems that the effect viferona, about which they say that it reduces the cough, due precisely to the increase in body temperature. This side effect of interferons.
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