The proper way to use an air humidifier

Winter tends to be extra dry in a heated house, so many people choose to buy humidifiers to improve their indoor environment.

According to common marketing rhetoric in the humidifier industry: dry air can lead to dry skin, throat, and respiratory tract, which can easily lead to asthma and other respiratory illnesses, and humidifiers can significantly improve this problem.

Are these common claims right or wrong? Come along and learn more about humidifiers.

What is a humidifier?

A humidifier is a household appliance that increases the humidity in a room. A humidifier can humidify a specific room, or it can be connected to a boiler or central air conditioning system to humidify an entire building.

Humidifier industry in China has a history of nearly 20 years, after years of popularization of air quality concepts, product development, market cultivation, humidifiers, a relatively unknown small household appliances, the function and role of humidifiers are gradually accepted.

Humidifier according to use is mainly divided into household humidifier and industrial humidifier two types.

Is dry air really bad?

In many office surveys, symptoms such as dry eyes, dry mouth, sore throat and itchy skin appear with the highest frequency.

Health experts tell us that lower air humidity, which dries out our skin, mouth, respiratory mucous membranes, and eyes with rapid evaporation of moisture, is the cause of these symptoms. Such a conclusion does fit with our average person's intuition as well.

However, scientific research does not seem to support these conclusions.

The truth is that the discomforts associated with dryness are not a direct result of dryness; they are a byproduct of dry air. In other words, discomfort correlates with low air humidity, but is not causal.