Does Blowing a Fan Increase Humidity?

For people with dampness in their bodies, long-term exposure to fans may increase the dampness. However, not everyone who is exposed to fans for a long time will experience increased dampness. If the body is healthy and can expel dampness in time, it will not increase dampness.

Dampness is the main qi of long summer (that is, the turn of summer and autumn). It is hot and rainy at the turn of summer and autumn, and dampness is the most severe. For people with dampness in their bodies, long-term exposure to fans may increase the dampness in their bodies. Because when a person is sweating, some of the dampness in the body will also be expelled through the skin. If they are exposed to fans for a long time, the body will be in a closed state under the stimulation of cold air, and the dampness in the body cannot be expelled smoothly, which may lead to increased dampness.

However, not everyone who is exposed to fans for a long time will experience increased dampness. If their diet is regular and healthy, the spleen and stomach function normally, and there is little internal dampness produced, and if they regularly participate in physical exercise to help the body expel excess dampness in time, then long-term exposure to fans may not lead to increased dampness for such people.

Dampness belongs to yin evil, which is heavy, turbid, sticky, and can block the movement of qi and affect the transportation and transformation of the spleen. External dampness can commonly cause symptoms such as weight gain, soreness in the waist and back, fatigue in the limbs, pain in joints and muscles, and fixed pain. Internal dampness blocking the stomach and intestines can commonly lead to poor appetite, chest tightness, difficult urination, and loose stool.

If you have the above symptoms, you may have dampness, and it is recommended to seek medical attention promptly for diagnosis and treatment.