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AndyH
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 Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: Leaving the fan on at night:Urban Myth? |
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When I was in Korea, I was told never to leave my fan running at night, because it is deadly to do so. My Canadian co-worker and I thought that was the silliest thing in the world, and laughed it off. But now, my Japanese wife, her parents, and other people are telling me the same thing. They say that people have had heart attacks during the night, caused by their fans.
I had never heard of such a thing in the US.
Is this an Asian urban myth? Has anyone else heard this? |
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chirp
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Bozo Yoroshiku
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:40 am Post subject: Re: Leaving the fan on at night:Urban Myth? |
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Old wives tale.
Mythbusters even did something on it.
--boz |
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AndyH
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 2:53 am Post subject: |
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Im laughing at my wife right now, and she's pissed at me. Now that I've informed her that the source of this myth is South Korea, she's starting to become a bit more open-minded about her previous assumptions.
Thanks for the response. This is really funny. |
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BradS
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:03 am Post subject: |
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| That's funny. I'd forgotten about this. |
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bshabu
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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| I have left my fan on many a time. Funny I don't feel dead. |
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JimDunlop2
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:46 pm Post subject: |
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No.. It only works if you are sleeping in the same bed as your mother after a long night of incestuous relations...  |
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bornslippy1981
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| Posted: Sun Jul 16, 2006 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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I should be dead then, as I've slept with a fan on year-round for the past 8 years.
Wouldn't you rather die in your sleep anyway? |
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Sweetsee
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| There could be something about having a fan trained directly on a sleeping child that would be unhealthy. |
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JimDunlop2
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:25 am Post subject: |
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| Sweetsee wrote: |
| There could be something about having a fan trained directly on a sleeping child that would be unhealthy. |
Such as... ? |
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Sweetsee
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: |
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| Uh. . .catch a cold...uh, freak out...uh, FCS? |
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Like a Rolling Stone
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 11:14 am Post subject: |
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| Ladyboy wrote: |
| Uh. . .catch a cold...uh, freak out...uh, FCS? |
What is FCS? |
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ndorfn
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I'd say hypothermia sounds feasable. sure think it would be dangerous to leave a fan trained on a child overnight. Personally I always make me japanese wife turn the timer on coz I prefer feeling warm at night to cold. |
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JimDunlop2
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 3:01 pm Post subject: |
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| ndorfn wrote: |
| I'd say hypothermia sounds feasable. sure think it would be dangerous to leave a fan trained on a child overnight. Personally I always make me japanese wife turn the timer on coz I prefer feeling warm at night to cold. |
Nahhh....
* Gord Giesbrecht, a physical education professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, is a leading expert on hypothermia.
�It's hard to imagine [death by fan], because to die of hypothermia, [one's body temperature] would have to get down to 28, drop by 10 degrees overnight. We've got people lying in snowbanks overnight here in Winnipeg and they survive. Maybe if someone was elderly and they were sitting there for three days [in a sealed room with an electric fan turned on]. Someone is not going to die from hypothermia because their body temperature drops two or three degrees overnight; it would have to drop eight to 10 degrees." |
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JaredW
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Location: teaching high school in Sacramento, CA, USA
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| Posted: Mon Jul 17, 2006 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| JimDunlop2 wrote: |
| ndorfn wrote: |
| I'd say hypothermia sounds feasable. sure think it would be dangerous to leave a fan trained on a child overnight. Personally I always make me japanese wife turn the timer on coz I prefer feeling warm at night to cold. |
Nahhh....
* Gord Giesbrecht, a physical education professor at the University of Manitoba in Canada, is a leading expert on hypothermia.
�It's hard to imagine [death by fan], because to die of hypothermia, [one's body temperature] would have to get down to 28, drop by 10 degrees overnight. We've got people lying in snowbanks overnight here in Winnipeg and they survive. Maybe if someone was elderly and they were sitting there for three days [in a sealed room with an electric fan turned on]. Someone is not going to die from hypothermia because their body temperature drops two or three degrees overnight; it would have to drop eight to 10 degrees." |
What about an infant whose ability to maintain and regulate core temperature is not as mature? I mean, why not be safe and not sorry? Is this idea worth the fight? |
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