Drinking cold water and sitting in air conditioning can easily damage the kidneys and cause brain softening.

In hot weather like these days, drinking cold water makes you feel cool immediately, sitting in the air conditioner makes you not want to go outside at all. But few people know that this quick way of cooling down is extremely dangerous for your health.

Traditional Oriental medicine has long said, “The kidneys hate cold.” In fact, not only do the kidneys hate cold, but the lungs, spleen, and stomach also fear cold.

The word 'kidney' in Oriental medicine should be understood broadly. It is the vitality, the body's resistance, the higher nervous system, the cerebral cortex, not simply the kidney in the excretory system.

Therefore, when Oriental medicine says "Kidney is cold", it means the harm of cold elements to human health and life. It means that the cold continuously attacks the body, making the body gradually weaken.

Ice water suddenly reduces internal body temperature leading to kidney damage.

In the hot summer, when working, exercising, walking... sweating a lot makes us very thirsty. Being both hot and thirsty, everyone likes to drink a glass of ice water or cold beer because they think it will cool them down and quench their thirst. But the truth is not like that. Because the water molecules in the cold drink are integrated at that time, it will be very difficult to penetrate the cells, so even if you drink it, your body will still be very thirsty.

On the contrary, in hot drinks, water molecules completely penetrate into the cells to replenish the lost water. Therefore, drinking ice cold water does not quench thirst as quickly as drinking hot or slightly warm water. If you often drink cold drinks, your cells will lack water.

In addition, when the body is hot and then meets cold, it must automatically neutralize the cold to balance the temperature between the body's regions, which causes the body to waste energy in vain. And if this event happens every day, it clearly makes the body weaker and weaker, especially the organs related to it weaken as well. Usually, that is the kidney, the most important organ, if not the root of human life (according to Oriental Medicine). And when the kidney meridian is damaged, the disease is considered difficult to cure.

Drinking cold water is harmful to the body, just like when we heat a limestone and throw it into cold water, we hear a hissing sound and the stone breaks apart. The sudden change in temperature leads to such terrible destruction.

The body is hot, the organs are working at full capacity to dissipate heat, suddenly drinking a glass of ice water, the operation of the system must change 180 degrees so that instead of reducing the temperature, it must increase the temperature to balance the body temperature.

Of course, drinking ice water is not harmful immediately, but its harmful effects come slowly, kidney failure is an inevitable result.

On the other hand, although cold drinks make us feel refreshed, for people who have just caught a cold or sunstroke, sweat cannot escape, the body cannot dissipate heat, so the risk of fever increases. However, to both quench thirst and cool the body when hot and thirsty, we can drink cold water about 8-15 degrees Celsius, with boiled water that has been cooled, orange juice, lemon juice, sugarcane juice... and drink slowly.

If you drink too much cold water, it will cause the blood vessels in the stomach and intestines to constrict, leading to ischemia of the mucosa, thereby reducing the digestive and antiseptic functions of the stomach and intestines, leading to abdominal pain and acute diarrhea.

Sitting in air conditioning too much can cause acute pharyngitis and even encephalopathy.

Sudden cold can also easily lead to acute pharyngitis, a disease that accounts for 90% of cases of pharyngitis.

Acute pharyngitis often occurs suddenly after a cold, such as taking a cold shower, bathing in an open space, or in a drafty place, or not drying the body before putting on clothes right away after bathing. The disease can also occur suddenly when sitting in front of an air conditioner from the heat outside or when the weather suddenly changes seasons...

The temperature in the air-conditioned environment is too different from the temperature outside the room, drinking cold water when the body is burning hot... causes the mucosal system of the nasal sinuses to dry out, reducing resistance, creating an opportunity for germs and bacteria that have accumulated in the sinuses to develop.

Sitting in air conditioning too much can cause sore throat, sinusitis, and even brain damage.

People who often sit in air-conditioned rooms often feel dizzy and lightheaded, this is a common reaction of the brain's nervous system imbalance caused by the air-conditioned environment. In addition to causing colds, air conditioning can also damage the brain.

When people go from outside into an air-conditioned room, the sudden cold makes it difficult for the body's autonomic nervous system to adapt, causing symptoms of "air-conditioning disease" to appear, with symptoms such as irritability, stress, insomnia, etc.

People who are sweating a lot after being in the sun should not immediately enter an air-conditioned room. They should sit for a while to dry their sweat before entering a cold room.

Doctors recommend that people, both at home and at work, should only set the air conditioner at 25 to 28 degrees Celsius. Supplement minerals and drink plenty of water to avoid dehydration and dry skin.

It is necessary to clean the mouth, throat, and nose regularly and daily. It is necessary to brush teeth after eating and before and after waking up to form a habit, especially for children. It is advisable to bathe with warm water, especially for those who suffer from recurrent sore throats. After bathing, dry the body before putting on clean clothes regardless of the season. After bathing, do not sit in front of a fan or in an air-conditioned room (regardless of whether it is cold or hot).

According to Giadinh.net