Is running a fan in your bedroom at night bad for your health?

[futurefields]

I feel like I can't sleep without a fan on. Need that breeze. But I also feel like it dries out my skin and gives me a cough sometimes. Any workaround? Not sure.

 

[feralkid]

Leading cause of bad humors and the vapors.

Also you are flirting with miasma.






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[balloonshark]

If you use it to stay cool then try lowering your room or house temp instead. You also don't need a fan pointed directly at you for you to feel the air moving.

If you use it for noise you could always try a white noise machine. I sleep with a fan and white noise machine.

 

[LevelSea]

Only if you're Korean.

 

[Anonemous]

Only if you're Korean.

^Yup, super deadly I hear.

 

[Imp]

Also you are flirting with miasma.


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Definitely gotta watch for that miasma shit. I heard you can get bad things like cholera from it.

 

[gdansk]

Leading cause of death in 2 states.

 

[Captante]

Only if its a ceiling fan and you enjoy jumping on your bed.

 

[brainhulk]

White noise generator, i use it too

 

[Sulaco]

Posting in a futurefields thread...

 

[radhak]

I feel like I can't sleep without a fan on. Need that breeze. But I also feel like it dries out my skin and gives me a cough sometimes. Any workaround? Not sure.

Air conditioning dries your skin, not the fan breeze. Try shutting the AC off, and use just the fan.

I have used a fan all my life. Still do, in Florida - keep my windows open, the fan on, and most of the year, the AC off.

 

[brainhulk]

If you put some ice cubes in front of the fan you won't get skin drying?

 

[chin311]

Air conditioning dries your skin, not the fan breeze. Try shutting the AC off, and use just the fan.

I have used a fan all my life. Still do, in Florida - keep my windows open, the fan on, and most of the year, the AC off.

AC off? Florida? Does not compute

Live in Florida myself unfortunately and I have the AC on 75/76 at night and the fan on medium.

Always used a fan on at night since I was little.

 

[edro]

I squirt lotion on my fan blades.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Only if its a ceiling fan and you enjoy jumping on your bed.

Mythbusted.

It would hurt like the dickens though.

 

[Homerboy]

We have box fans running in 3 rooms every night -- even will take one with us when we travel. Can't sleep without it!

 

[Exterous]

We have box fans running in 3 rooms every night -- even will take one with us when we travel. Can't sleep without it!

3 fans??!! I think its time to start divvying up your stuff as you clearly only have a short time left to live (I hear the effects increase exponentially with each fan added)

 

[SP33Demon]

Just add a hepa air filter and your sore throat should go away.

 

[SlickSnake]

I bet you more people have died while not using a fan, than while using one. For one example, let's say your house gets a gas leak, and no fans are on, and the air or heating rarely comes on at night. Those gas vapors and fumes are heavier than air is. The bed is usually close to the floor and you are asleep. With a fan on in the room, the air is being circulated more, much more, and the chances of you dying outright versus waking up coughing or choking are greatly increased, I would imagine. And other weird odors and vapors that might seep out of the floors and walls more in some places would be more predominate in some areas of the house without a fan on, too. So using a fan would effect everything from Radon gas to mold and mildew spores which would all be more concentrated in some areas with a fan off.

I would much rather have those unknown odors, gases and vapors in the house constantly circulating in the air rather than accumulating where I sit or sleep.

 

[nageov3t]

if you're coughing more when than fan is running, you may want to break out a stepladder and dust it.

 

[SlickSnake]

if you're coughing more when than fan is running, you may want to break out a stepladder and dust it.

You just reverse it at full speed every once in a while and vacuum up the carpet. :awe:

 

[amddude]

fan death

 

[DCal430]

Yes, the fan displaces the breathable air around you. Which means less oxygen for your body. In some cases death can even occur due to hypoxia.

 

[WelshBloke]

Yes, the fan displaces the breathable air around you. Which means less oxygen for your body. In some cases death can even occur due to hypoxia.

Interesting.

So what's it displacing it with?

 

[nageov3t]

Yes, the fan displaces the breathable air around you. Which means less oxygen for your body. In some cases death can even occur due to hypoxia.

unless you're in a vacuum sealed room, this isn't something you have to worry about.

otherwise the fan should keep the oxygen and CO2 mixed normally.