If we leave the house at night, parents often warned caution to the wind the night. What'd different wind and wind during the night? Has there been any impact on health, or just a myth?
A medical expert said, the term is actually the night wind unknown in the medical world. The term used to describe ordinary people wind expose people out of the house at night.
According to him, the wind at night it has different characteristics to the wind during the day. Evening winds tend to be cold and clammy. Factors that can trigger health problems.
"In addition to the cold and damp, in the evening wandering disease vectors such as mosquitoes carrying malaria germs and disease elephantiasis," he explained.
Not only that, he continued, "people who like to go out at night and sleep late are less likely to break. In fact, the night sleep plays an important role in restoring the body is tired all day ".
Was also able to maintain optimum body resistance, thereby reducing susceptibility to disease. But in conditions of lack of rest, people are exposed to the wind at night by itself vulnerable to health problems.
The doctor mentioned a number of potential health problems from exposure to the night breeze and disease vectors:
1. More susceptible to malaria and elephantiasis disease, because they have a greater chance of being bitten by mosquitoes that roam in an outdoor setting.
2. Evening wind exposure can also aggravate the disease condition. "People suffering from bronchitis or pneumonia (lay people often call it pneumonia), wind and damp cold night will aggravate the symptoms. Become more severe cough and shortness of breath, "said the doctor.
3. Evening breeze can trigger an asthma attack. Cold temperatures and damp at night will cause the airways narrow and produce mucus. As a result of air in and out to be more difficult, and the resulting cough as the body's mechanism to remove mucus from the lungs.
4. Not only aggravate lung disease, the night wind also disrupt the upper respiratory tract. "At the upper respiratory tract, the night wind can also trigger inflammation of the mucosa of the nose (rhinitis) or throat (pharyngitis), whose symptoms include cough, runny nose and sore throat," the doctor explained.
5. Night wind exposure can trigger acute attacks in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (gouty arthritis). Cold air can cause swollen joints arthritis sufferers, red, and painful.
Quite a lot of the risk of diseases that arise. Then, what is the solution for people who love or forced out at night? The doctor said, when it should be out of the house, the following should be prepared:
- Wear a thick coat to protect the body from the wind during the night.
- Wearing a helmet that covers the face (full face).
- As much as possible using the car as a mode of transportation, so it is not directly exposed to the night wind.
- People who are out at night a lot of mosquitoes in the area, it is advisable to use anti-mosquito lotion.
