Atmospheric Pressure Hits Human Health

Sergey Lebedev

In the last century, it has become common to talk about atmospheric pressure, which not only affects the weather, but most importantly, affects our well-being. Most of the world's population adapts quickly and easily to weather changes. The greatest influence on people is exerted by temperature, wind, precipitation and humidity. The next most important influence is atmospheric pressure, and above all, its sudden changes. That is, more than 5-6 mm Hg.

But prolonged abnormally low or high levels can have a negative impact on people who are hypersensitive to weather reports. According to doctors, at very high atmospheric pressure there is a slight reduction in heart rate and a decrease in minimum blood pressure. Breathing becomes rarer but deeper. Hearing and smell are slightly reduced, and the voice becomes muffled.

The risk group includes two categories - weather-sensitive and sick. Their body is very sensitive not only to weather changes, but also to its abnormal conditions. First of all, these are people with disorders of the nervous autonomic system, cardiovascular diseases, and chronic diseases, which are more often observed in old age. Such people need to apply therapeutic and preventive measures in case of emerging atmospheric threats.

High atmospheric pressure is not well tolerated by people suffering from cardiovascular diseases. First of all, with unstable own pressure. And these are headaches, pain in the heart, surges in blood pressure, attacks of angina pectoris, tachycardia or migraines. But in addition to atmospheric pressure, there is also atmospheric electricity. But this is all the influence of weather on humanity. After all, no one thinks that you and I have a great influence on what we see when we wake up from the window. Will it be rain, wind or a gentle sunny morning? The main thing is how many people are in the room.

More than a century ago, the English scientist Echforth conducted a series of experiments, proving the influence of the human body on atmospheric pressure and atmospheric electricity. First of all, we were talking about atmospheric electricity, which we have been able to tame so far only in science fiction novels. Although our body, the physicist argued, is not inferior in its electrical parameters to the same radium. It is known that under the influence of radium radiation, air is ionized, acquiring a state of superconductivity. In this case, the charged device quickly discharges.

The experiments carried out have shown that exactly the same effect, although to a lesser extent, is exerted on the electrical charges of the air by you and me. For the experiment, we took a charged electroscope, well known from school - a device for detecting electrical charges. In the first case there were people in the room, in the second there were none.

In the first case, the electroscope discharged faster than in the second. The discharge speed depended on the number of people and the volume and size of their body. And if we take into account that ionization has a significant impact on the human nervous system, then the doctors who joined the physicist’s experiments argued that the research was, first of all, interesting from a hygienic point of view.

- Pravda.ru