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Household chores are very time-consuming. If you want your apartment to be clean and tidy, you have to regularly mop, vacuum, dust and wash and dry laundry. Today we’re focusing on drying laundry. Did you know that drying laundry in the apartment endangers your health?
Not everyone can afford a clothes dryer
This practical appliance is indeed an excellent solution to our problem. But in some countries and households it belongs to the category of luxury appliances that many people simply have to do without. The most common alternative is therefore hanging laundry on a line or drying racks. If possible, laundry is most often hung outside so it dries quickly and doesn’t get in the way. But in winter and in rainy weather this isn’t possible, so we hang laundry inside the apartment and unknowingly set ourselves up for health problems.
How can damp laundry in the apartment harm us?
It seems like a complete triviality. After all, it’s just damp laundry. At most it will be a nuisance and that’s the only risk you see. But it’s not that simple. Damp laundry in the apartment has a greater effect on our health than you think.
- Mold can form on damp clothing, which release spores that can cause serious lung infections. The most common type of lung disease from damp clothing is pulmonary aspergillosis. A doctor will prescribe medication and will also forbid drying laundry inside the apartment!
- Damp laundry increases the air humidity in the apartment by 30%. This is a perfect environment for the spread of mold spores. These mainly threaten people with weakened immune systems (asthmatics, HIV-positive individuals, those after chemotherapy, etc.)
Pulmonary aspergillosis is a very serious disease that, if left untreated, can even result in the death of the infected person. Drying laundry indoors is not safe. If you can, always dry laundry outside, or at least ventilate sufficiently!
