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A chemist with many years of experience with hazardous, highly toxic and radioactive substances, Ing. Miloš Košíře, claims: “I live in a housing estate in a panel block and I am surprised how few people ventilate. Some are literally hermetically sealed.“
The expert’s words are therefore clear: ”Don’t be afraid of fresh air!“
“Fresh air combined with exercise and spending time outside in the sun works wonders. Move and enjoy the sunshine. After all, it has been said for centuries: where the sun doesn’t go, the doctor goes. Even when you are at home, open your windows, don’t be afraid, the virus will not “jump” on you.
Of course, those who have a family house, a terrace or a suitable balcony have a huge advantage. Ideal now are work in the garden and around a cottage or country house. Here the family is sufficiently isolated from the outside surroundings.
You should ventilate!
The air we are in gradually becomes potentially risky from two points of view. First, it is the fact that in rooms with a larger number of people the frequency of virulent particles, i.e. viruses, can increase. It always applies that the environment should contain as few particles as possible, and that applies to chemical and radioactive substances as well as microorganisms. So ventilate regularly. We ventilate depending on the number of people in the room. Another important fact is that in inadequately ventilated rooms carbon dioxide accumulates. Carbon dioxide is the gas we exhale and the air tries to provide oxygen for our body. How does carbon dioxide act? This gas is commonly found in the environment at a level of 300 ppm (which is an expression for the volumetric concentration of gas in the air). During a stay in a poorly ventilated room its concentration gradually increases, and concentrations above 900 ppm already begin to cause fatigue, induce drowsiness and, with long-term exposure, headaches or loss of appetite.
Oxygen is fundamental
Weak, poor and insufficient breathing does not benefit our immune system.
Why?
“Simply because if we want everything in our body to function, we must supply the body and all cells with what belongs to them. We breathe weakly, shallowly, under stress, timidly, so our body and immune system receive little of the necessary oxygen and energy. Oxygen should not only be provided at the final stage – connection to a lung ventilator – but always, while we are still healthy. Even an engine will not deliver good performance if it does not have a good supply of oxygen, –” concludes the expert.
