Covid-19 and prevention campaigns oblige, you now know that it is advisable to air your interior regularly. Only, you have not failed to notice it by feeling the need to take out scarves and hats lately: winter is coming, and it’s cold.
You are therefore faced with a dilemma: do you really have to ventilate to avoid getting sick if you risk catching cold while doing so… and therefore getting sick no matter what.
The truth about drafts
Let’s remember the basics: no one really catches a cold. It’s viruses that make you sick, not the drop in temperature itself. And this even if the weakening of the respiratory mucosa caused by the cold can however favor certain contaminations.
It remains obvious: not only is the atmosphere of our homes loaded with various pollutants emanating from our furniture or the products we use to clean it, but it also concentrates virus particles like that of Covid-19 which, trapped in your home , as in closed places, do not dissipate and mechanically increase the risk of contamination. Last April, the British Medical Journal thus explained in one of his communications that “the smallest particles […] can remain airborne for hours and represent an important route of transmission.”
Only one solution: bring a breath of fresh air
Know this: the WHO recommends that you open your windows (wide) for 10 to 15 minutes at least twice a day. And no matter where you are. So yes, of course, your colleagues will certainly protest at work, and you risk shivering yourself. But fortunately, nothing still prevents you from putting on a sweater or even falling for the down jacket inside if you are really chilly. And remember that you are doing this for the best of causes: your health and that of others!
Read also:
- Cold: is it good or bad for the body?
- 9 Anti-Cold Foods
- Covid 19: 9 times more deaths among the unvaccinated
- Congolese variant: what do we know about this atypical variant of Covid-19 detected in Brittany?
