Can you get sick from sleeping with a fan on.

[rezinn]

I'm glad that during the winter, when it was like -10 outside at night time, I didn't have the fan on when I slept.

 

[lightstar]

yes- especially if your hair is wet

 

[Pocatello]

I'm sure there is a Chinese medicine out there that will cure any illness that is directly linked to the fan. Or perhaps one of the ingredients needed is from an animal or plant that is already extincted because of Chinese medicine, so there is no cure for the much feared sick-from-sleeping-with-the-fan-on illness.

 

[BW86]

Originally posted by: Shawn
LOL. I sleep with my fan on every night.

 

[bobsmith1492]

Korea fan death...

Maybe the honor tradition is still going strong but underground now - if your spouse cheats on you, suffocate him/her and claim fan death.

(Disclaimer - I doubt that's any sort of a Korean tradition but the whole fan thing is just nonsense anyway...)

 

[pontifex]

i sleep with a fan on every night and when i'm home (when I don't have the AC on.

If a fan will make sick, shouldn't an AC kill you then? how the fuck does that make any sense?

 

[manlymatt83]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
I always sleep with a fan on. Have been doing this for years now. It's to the point where I almost can't sleep without one. No problems so far.

QFT

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: Xanis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fan_death

That fans contribute to hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature.[1] As the metabolism slows down at night, one becomes more sensitive to temperature,[citation needed] and thus supposedly more prone to hypothermia. If the fan is left on all night in a sealed and enclosed room, believers in fan death suppose that it will lower the temperature of the room to the point that it can cause hypothermia. Empirical measurements will show, however, that the temperature in the room does not fall, at least not due to the fan; if at all, it should rise slightly because of friction and the heat output of the fan motor, but even this is generally not significant. Fans actually make one cooler by increasing the convection around a person's body so that heat flows from them to the air more easily, and by the latent heat of vaporisation as perspiration evaporates from the body. However, there is no scientific study which indicates that this effect would be sufficient to cause hypothermia unless the temperature were already very low (in which case, there would be no need for a fan anyway).

dear christ, wikipedia *does* have an article for everything.

 

[Jeff7]

Come to think of it, back on campus, there was no air conditioning, and the dorms and apartments could get pretty hot when it was close to the summer months. Each night it was warm I had a fan blowing over me. And it was one with thin metal blades, so that would have been extra good at dicing up oxygen molecules.


Man, that'd suck if that actually happened. I'd get to die of all kinds of possible radiation poisoning. Ion, proton, and neutron bombardment, maybe some alpha particles, electron irradiation, etc.
And I may well freeze to death. Splitting oxygen atoms would be an endothermic process, so the room may well cool to near absolute zero from all that fission.

 

[Jawo]

HA! I hope not....I always have a fan on in the summer...just because its so warm. Its not colder in the room....just helps with circulation...and thereby making it just feel cooler.

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: bignateyk
LOL

I've slept with a box fan blowing straight onto me for at least 15 years now. Sometimes (read: most of the time) bare ass naked without covers.

Did you get the petition I dropped off from your neighbors to buy some curtains?

 

[StevenYoo]

you're korean, aren't you

 

[Blayze]

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
I always sleep with a fan on. Have been doing this for years now. It's to the point where I almost can't sleep without one. No problems so far.

Same here. I can't sleep without one on anymore.

It can be 20 degrees outside and the heat on in the house, but I still have to have the fan turned on to sleep.

 

[gamepad]

Fans are good because of the white noise.

 

[Dessert Tears]

Originally posted by: Imp
Wasn't this asked last year?

Death by fan!!!, 2006

 

[spidey07]

I don't get it. So you die without having a fan and you die if you do have a fan. So either way you'll catch your death of killdeath cold.

WHICH ONE IS IT!!!

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: ICRS
They say it drops your body temperature and makes you very sick, and can even kill you from hypothermia. I know the kill part is bullshit, but can it really make you very sick?

I sleep with a fan everyday

 

[aircooled]

Exposure to a virus or bacteria can make you sick. Not a fan or temperature.

 

[PokerGuy]

That explains it! The US has a program going in Iraq, they're handing out free ceiling fans to everyone claiming to be an insurgent. Fiendishly clever!

Do people actually believe such nonsense about fans causing you some sort of harm?? :roll:

 

[Bateluer]

I sleep with a fan on always. I need the white noise. Even when its cold outside, the fan is on. I may adjust it so it doesn't blow directly on me though.

There's no way you could possibly die from the results of the fan being on. If the fan was causing it to be too cold, it would make you uncomfortable and you'd get up and turn off the fan.

 

[IHateMyJob2004]

HAVING GOTTEN SICK MANY TIMES WITH A FAN ON, I WILL SAY YES!

It's usually a soar throat but I get the worse damned neck pain if a ceiling fan is blowing on me all night.

I don't know what causes it but I haven't let a fan blow on me since my childhood.

Since people here are different than I, let me explain it. If I have a fan blowing on me all night, the air flow hits my face all night and it dries out my nose and throat.

 

[skillyho]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004
HAVING GOTTEN SICK MANY TIMES WITH A FAN ON, I WILL SAY YES!

It's usually a soar throat but I get the worse damned neck pain if a ceiling fan is blowing on me all night.

I don't know what causes it but I haven't let a fan blow on me since my childhood.

Since people here are different than I, let me explain it. If I have a fan blowing on me all night, the air flow hits my face all night and it dries out my nose and throat.

I'm the same way....I will have a sore throat if I have something blowing on me directly while I sleep, or I will wake up very congested. I've been this way as long as I can recall.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: IHateMyJob2004

Since people here are different than I, let me explain it. If I have a fan blowing on me all night, the air flow hits my face all night and it dries out my nose and throat.

Adjust the fan? I don't like the fan blowing directly on my face since it dries out my eyes, nose, and throat, but I like the fan blowing on my body.

 

[Uppsala9496]

I keep the fan on in my room and I keep it on in my daughters room.

 

[nerp]

I hope people in Korea don't have computers in their bedrooms. Plenty of fans in those.

And yes, we're aware that fans don't reduce temperature, folks. The whole point of a fan is to introduce AIR CIRCULATION. This means that the cooler air outside will be sucked in through the window or the hot air in the room will be blown out.