The home environment is important for maintaining good health. In fact, it is important to maintain optimal levels in the environment so that respiratory illnesses do not occur.
How dryness affects the environment
A dry home environment can irritate the respiratory tract, causing an itchy throat and coughing. This dry environment can also affect the skin, causing itching. In this sense, the humidity level in a house should be within a range between 40 and 60%.
When the value is lower or higher, the environment is not adequate and respiratory tract and skin conditions may appear.
How does a cooler or more humid environment affect us?
Perhaps for many people, air humidity that avoids irritation of the respiratory tract may be healthier. If we refer to the outdoor environment, lower humidity does not seem to have a negative effect on the respiratory system, quite the contrary. In some diseases, such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) due to smoking, humidity and cold can have a negative effect by worsening the symptoms of these diseases.
Maintaining an optimal home environment
There is no ideal home environment where more than one person lives. This is because one person can tolerate excellently an environment of more than 25 degrees and not tolerate air conditioning, while another can only be comfortable with a lower temperature and air conditioning.
According to studies, the ideal would be to maintain a temperature between 18 and 22 degrees in the home. In case the environment is very dry, there are some methods or techniques that can help to humidify the environment, such as putting bowls with water or using a good humidifier.
Even so, our organism adapts, or has to adapt, to the climatic conditions of the place of birth. And the organism itself can immediately notice when these conditions change.