Health & Fitness
Why Sleeping With a Room Heater On Is Bad for You
Sleeping with the heater on all night long can also cause our skin to dry out because of a lack of moisture. This can also make your skin easily irritated, flaky, and itchy. People who tend to keep the heater close to them are the most at risk of experiencing dry skin and the rest of the symptoms mentioned above.
It can make the air in your room toxic.
If your room is not properly ventilated (which is hard to maintain while you are asleep), prolonged periods of excessive heat can negatively affect the quality of indoor air. This can provoke health consequences in the long run and potentially lead to respiratory issues like asthma, trigger allergies, and cause some other serious diseases.
It can suppress your immune system.
Bacteria survive longer in dry air. This is why the conditions created by leaving the heater on can create an environment where bacteria thrive. In fact, this is why we usually get sick and catch the flu more often during the winter when the air in our rooms is considerably drier.
Babies don’t like heated rooms either.
Babies are more sensitive to heated rooms, as their skin dries up considerably faster. Also, the mucus in the nose which is responsible for trapping bacteria easily dries up in a room with hot air. When the mucus dries up, our immune system is weakened and more prone to infection. And, while our immune system is strong enough to handle this, that’s not the case with babies, and they become even more susceptible to infections.
