Fresh air, we don't think a lot about it, but it is as important for health as any dietary nutrient.
This news story on the BBC website caught my eye. Keeping the windows shut in hospital wards increased the risk of infection fourfold
[url]BBC News - Closing hospital windows 'increases infection risk'[/url]
It astonishes me what hospital designers seem to have forgotten :eek:. Florence Nightingale in the 1800's knew plenty about fresh air and avoiding cross-infection. That's why her wards were designed with high ceilings and big windows. I know - I worked on these wards.
Modern hospitals by comparison are not only airless but claustrophobic :eek:, having such low ceilings. I sincerely hope I can avoid being put into one!
Exactly Caroline. The stale air - the demoralizing wards - the infamous food...
The whole system is a health hazard in itself and decidedly not conducive to patient welfare.
It beggars belief that there was the need to research this . lol .
I was in hospital last month for my wisdom teeth removal and the first thing that 'hit' me was a wave of stuffiness .
The windows were shut, the heating was full on and there were 'sick / unwell' patients lining the corridors ..
I doesn't take a genius to work out that what is 'airborne' in terms of flu / germs have nowhere to go other than continue to multiply in a contained area ..
As we know for starters the hospitals have had a real problem keeping the wards clean, (another crazy oversight) . It all adds to the pot . Perhaps the stuffiness has got to their heads and they can't think straight . lol .
For myself I much prefer a fresh crisp flow of air in the house rather than a stuffy hot wave of central heating ..
x dazzle x
It beggars belief that there was the need to research this . lol .
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Perhaps the stuffiness has got to their heads and they can't think straight . lol .x dazzle x
Could there be any other reason? Trouble is the planners like to 'throw the baby out with the bathwater' when they take over because their inflated egos tell them they 'know better' :rolleyes: - never mind the historical evidence to the contrary.
Ask any nurse who trained in the old-fashioned way - ie practically instead of just theoretically - and they will describe what happens without having to do some stupid 'study'. By that I mean questions thought up by someone sitting behind a desk with absolutely no practical experience.
Any nurses I trained with shake their heads in horror at the way things are done now.
Any nurses I trained with shake their heads in horror at the way things are done now.
Ohhhhh tell me about it, I would hate to have to go in to hozzie now, last time my mum was in she ended up with C-dif....nurses tried to tell me she had caught a "wee infection". (they didn't know I was an ex-nurse..ha ha :D, they all but sh*t themselves when I pressed for explanations.
Ward cleaning should never have been tendered out and the new hozzies are getting built and are knocked down within 20 years whereas the good old infirmaries of yesteryear are still standing.
Yeh, get those windows open.:D I used to sleep with my windows open even in winter and always felt great (I was in my late twenties then tho') now I have windows shut, heating on and have become the great sloth.:eek: