Do you dry your clothes inside your house?
A new study has found that drying clothes indoors releases a large amount of moisture into the air, which can cause illness.
In winter, when temperatures drop and there is more humidity in the environment, it is common to use portable clotheslines to dry clothes inside the home. However, perhaps we should rethink this practice. Research A new study, carried out in the United Kingdom by the Mackintosh Environmental Architecture Research Unit in Glasgow, has found that clothes left to dry inside the home release a large amount of moisture into the air. which creates very favorable conditions for the proliferation of dust mites. This can pose a health risk. Especially for people who suffer from asthma, rhinitis, or some type of allergy. The authors of the study analyzed the air quality of 100 homes. As well as the energy they consumed to dry clothes. They discovered that during the coldest months, clothes were dried inside the home in 87% of cases. They also found that 75% of the homes studied had appropriate humidity levels for the appearance of dust mites. They were also able to relate the habit of drying clothes inside the home with the formation of mold spores. In fact, in 25% of these houses there was a spore that causes lung infections in people who have a weakened immune system. The solution would be to use automatic dryers to dry clothes, but they are expensive and, above all, they consume a lot of energy. For this reason, experts demand that when new houses are built, a space be enabled in them, with independent heating and ventilation, so that it can be used to dry clothes without affecting the health of the inhabitants.
