Portable cooling device favored by people Doctor: Local cooling can bring health risks

On a scorching summer day, the heat is unbearable. Various portable cooling devices such as neck mounted fans, handheld small fans, cool collars, intelligent wearable air conditioners, and intelligent waist mounted wind rings have become a favorite among citizens. Merchants unanimously claim that they can allow consumers to enjoy coolness anytime and anywhere. However, reports have pointed out that improper use of heat relieving devices can lead to "facial paralysis". Some doctors remind citizens from the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine theory that the use of cooling devices should be cautious.

Is it a cooling artifact, a "chicken rib" or a real "artifact"?

At the end of June this year, Ms. Zhu, who lives in Jingfu Garden, and her cousin Ms. Zhou arranged to take their children to Beijing for the summer vacation. I heard that Beijing is experiencing high temperatures every day. Before leaving, the two of them purchased several "cooling tools", but the harvest was disappointing.

Ms. Zhu bought two neck hanging fans at a unit price of 298 yuan. The selling points promoted by merchants are that fans can "liberate hands", "blow up and down", "cool down with ice", and "not sweat". After actual use, Ms. Zhu realized that when the fan was held in her hand, it was blowing in both directions. However, when it was hung around her neck, the lower air vent tightly pressed against her neck and shoulders, completely blocked. Only the upper air vent blew fiercely towards her face, feeling uncomfortable. Moreover, the fan is very bulky, like wearing a hot and stuffy scarf. At 8 o'clock that evening, Ms. Zhu returned to the hotel and took off the fan. She found that due to prolonged lack of breathability, her neck was red and swollen, and her skin had allergies and a burning sensation.

Cousin Ms. Zhou's feelings are also not good. On the evening of her first use of the neck hanging fan, she asked Ms. Zhu for several "Bone Strengthening Musk Pain Relieving Cream". Ms. Zhou said that the fan had made her face stiff, her neck sore and sore, and she was gasping for breath. Since then, the neck hanging fan has been driven into a "cold palace" by two women.

There is also a lady with long flowing hair in the tour group, always holding a portable small fan in her hand. But the design of this small fan is not reasonable, and the gap in the mesh cover is too large, often involving her hair. It took a lot of effort for the people around her to rescue her hair.