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Washing and drying clothes: why it is impossible to dry things in the apartment
Especially if you have a small child.
– Nothing dries, – her friend Tamara threw up her hands, taking off the linen from the loggia. She does the laundry every day now, and it happens more than once, the long-awaited son Andryusha has just appeared.
Indeed, as soon as autumn comes, it is possible to dry jeans and sweatshirts only in an apartment. Otherwise, you will have to wait for this happy moment for at least a week. And then, if the rains do not charge outside the window. So it is necessary to arrange clothes dryers in the rooms until sunny spring days, and use radiators for blitz drying. But it turned out that these methods turned out to be hazardous to health! One might even say deadly.
The study was conducted by experts from the Macintosh School of Architecture. Due to the fact that we dry clothes in the apartment, the humidity inside the room increases significantly. And instead of the benefits of hydration, we only get harm. In such conditions, mold and dust mites multiply with great pleasure and zeal. As a result: allergies, frequent colds, bronchial asthma. Just think, from one basin of washed laundry in the room, as much as 2 liters of water will evaporate!
– The humidity in the apartment cannot exceed 60 percent, – recommends pulmonologist Evgeny Efimov. – For those who already suffer from lung diseases, exceeding these figures threatens with complications.
Of course, many stores now sell humidifiers. With the beginning of the heating season, they greatly improve the atmosphere in the apartment, but in their case we are not talking about liters of water, in addition, you pour only clean liquid into the tanks. Drying clothes, on the other hand, give off moisture with an admixture of powders and conditioners, irritating the nasopharynx. In babies, these impurities can cause an allergic reaction.
It turns out that it is better to be patient than to run to doctors with bronchitis, tonsillitis and asthma attacks later.
How to dry clothes quickly
1. Put a few dry terry towels in the washing machine along with the wet laundry and turn on the “spin” mode. The towels will absorb excess moisture and dry the garment faster.
2. Roll the garment into a dry terry towel. Sit on the “bag” and sit for a few minutes. The weight of your body will absorb moisture from wet clothes into the towel.
3. For small things, you can use … a microwave. Just make sure that your clothes are free of lurex or other metal and near-metal parts. Set a timer for 30 seconds and send the item to dry. Repeat the procedure several times, taking the item out of the oven.
4. Preheat the oven, open the door. Opposite, place a chair with clothes that need to be dried quickly. It is advisable to open a window to reduce the humidity in the kitchen.