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Air Conditioning Side Effects and How to Prevent Them

What Air Conditioning Is Actually Doing to Your Body, and How to Stop It excerpt: The dry skin, the headache, the sore throat that shows up every summer are not random. Each one has a specific mechanism, and each one has a specific fix.

Dr Marina NaniDr Marina NaniEditor-in-Chief(Updated 26 July 2026)·1 min read

Air conditioning is doing exactly one job, pulling heat and moisture out of the air around you, and nearly every side effect people blame on it traces back to that single mechanism working as designed. None of these effects are random, and none of them require you to simply endure the season indoors.

Dry, tight, itchy skin

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