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Coronavirus floats in the air: Why restaurants should ensure sufficient air humidity
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Restaurants reopening is now on the agenda. And that’s because this is exactly where a renewed risk of infection lurks, in the form of so-called aerosol particles, i.e. the smallest infectious airborne particles, explains physicist Roland Netz from the Freie Universität Berlin, advising professional humidification. This way, droplets are not able to shrink so quickly and heavier droplets tend to sink to the floor. And he also rightly says: “Also the mucous membranes will otherwise dry out and become more susceptible to viruses.” Even the German Hotel and Restaurant Association (DEHOGA Bundesverband) recommends the use of humidifiers in this context.
Trotec practical knowledge: dry office air leads to dry eyes and mucous membranes – professional air humidification helps
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Excessively dry office air is the biggest enemy for a healthy office climate. Every employee knows the consequences: Irritated and reddened eyes that itch and sometimes even burn. Unpleasantly dry skin. Dried mucous membranes, which then amount to entry gates, sitting wide open for germs and infections of all kinds. This is because as the humidity drops, the removal of microorganisms and viruses in the mucous membranes decreases given the drying out of the cilia, meaning they can no longer perform their cleansing function.
Trotec practical knowledge: saves a visit to the pharmacy when your eyes are dry – professional air humidification from Trotec
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Your eye itches and burns mainly in the office and is reddened? Instead of simply getting eye drops from the pharmacy over and over again, it is better to visit an eye doctor. Because irritated eyes have their reasons. Often they are relatively simple: When working in front of the monitor, we blink less, which reduces the supply of moisture to the eyes. And the dry air in the office additionally tears up the tear film in the eyes. But there are two solutions for this …
Trotec practical knowledge: Dry office air puts contact lenses on dry land – professional air humidification helps to combat this
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Often contact lens wearers in particular have to struggle with irritated eyes in the office. Because if the contact lens does not float on the tear film as it normally does, but lies directly on the cornea, the eye quickly becomes irritated. The reason for this is relatively simple: We blink less during screen work, which inhibits the supply of moisture, and then the dry air in the office tears open the tear film. There are two solutions for this: One is to consciously blink. And one using professional humidifiers from Trotec.
Trotec practical knowledge: instead of eye drops, it’s better to use professional air humidification
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Those who work in an office usually know about the problem of constantly irritated eyes. This has led to a type of inflationary use of eye drops. However, not all eye drops are suitable for symptom relief. If they contain preservatives, for example, the problem can become even worse. And in the case of eye drops for reddened eyes, the active ingredient is broken down after a short time, the blood circulation in the eye increases again and it continues to dry out. Why don’t we just get to the root of the problem? With often excessively dry office air?
Trotec practical knowledge: dry office air makes for dry eyes – professional air humidification helps
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Office folk are often all too familiar with the problem of endlessly irritated eyes. When your eyes have too little tear fluid, they become excessively dry, they itch, they burn and they become red. We’re well aware of the reasons for this: on the one hand, long periods of working at a computer screen suppress the closing of the eyelids, akin to a reflex, thus inhibiting the supply of moisture. Conscious blinking, on the one hand, does help. On the other hand, office air that is often excessively dry causes the tear film to evaporate more quickly. A professional humidifier – from Trotec – helps to combat this!
Coronavirus: A-level exams – Air humidification reduces the risk of infection
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
The dates for this year’s A-level exams are under scrutiny nationwide. In North Rhine-Westphalia, for example, the decision has been taken to postpone the examinations for the almost 90,000 students by three weeks to May 12. Even the greatest optimists are unlikely to believe that the corona virus could be defeated by then. But the aim will be to reduce the risk of infection during the written and oral examination phases. And professional air humidification is demonstrably one of the best ways of doing this.
Coronavirus: Air humidification reduces the risk of infection in temporary quarantine stations or makeshift hospitals
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
In order to counter the escalating risk of infection from corona viruses, temporary quarantine stations or makeshift hospitals are currently being set up everywhere in gymnasiums or barracks: whether for people entering from high-risk areas at the national borders, in asylum seekers’ and refugees’ accommodation or in individual communities, in order to enforce quarantine regulations by force and to relieve the burden on hospitals, outpatient clinics or general practitioners. As a result, it is precisely these facilities that become hotspots for a possible virus infection. A professional air humidification of 50 % effectively reduces this risk.
Yale University proves: insufficient humidity increases viral infection
Posted on by Jochem Weingartz
Not only the coronavirus but influenza viruses cause serious respiratory diseases as well – and result in at least half a million deaths worldwide annually. A new study by America’s Yale University proves a connection between low humidity and the spread of influenza viruses. The study conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health substantiates a cause-effect relationship between humidity and the infectivity of coughed-up viruses – and everything seems to suggest that the same applies to the coronavirus as well. 