Natural Ways to Lower Humidity at Home:

Humidity plays a big role for human comfort situation. Basically we need to understand that the comfort level is combination of temperature and humidity (DBT & Rh). In tropical weather the third most important factor is air flow velocity. As the air become stagnant the humidity levels go up. A comfortable level of relative humidity range for human being is 25-60% with different temperatures.

There are some basic steps for having humidity at lower or comfort range in homes. Like,

a) Heavy / frequent use of flowing hot water for bathing or similar purpose when bathrooms are adjacent and directly opens in the home / room causes humidity increase in the home. To avoid the same try to have better ventilation / exhaust in bathrooms so that humid air from bathroom does not ex-filtrate to home / room.

b) Make necessary arrangements for the room or home to have adequate windows for fresh air circulation at the highest rate. This is the most effective way. High humid areas like kitchen, bathrooms, wash areas etc. Must be mechanically ventilated or should have enough opening area (window) for additional humid air to get escaped from the room. A closed volume / room have high tendency for humidity increase.

c) Indoor plants tend to release considerable amount of humidity to the room. Indoor plants should be kept near to the ventilation opening / window. Also one should avoid over watering these plants.

d) A certain level of humidity can be controlled by heating up the room as higher temperature air can carry more humidity (water grains). But this definitely does not provide enough comfort in hot tropical weather of India.

Above are common ways to have relief; however the efficiency of these things strongly depends on local weather conditions. For further needs, mechanical ways like AC, dehumidifier etc. will solve the purpose.

Gloves: Personal Protective Equipment

The cleanliness of sterile clothing is an important consideration in order to prevent the clothing itself to become a source of contamination. For example, sterile gloves that have been washed in de-ionised water, cleanroom packed, sterile validated and specified for low endotoxin levels can help lower the risk of particle, microbiological and endotoxin contamination.

Sterile apparel that is laundered, cleanroom packed in individual vacuum packaging, double-bagged and provided with periodic sterile validation will also contribute to lower contamination risks. Sterile gloves made from synthetic materials are beneficial because they can eliminate the risk of contaminating the final product with rubber latex proteins, which can be a problem for patients with latex allergies.

Another point to keep in mind is the barrier performance of the clothing. Continuous improvement can come from better control or elimination of variability in attributes that impact barrier performance. For example, disposable apparel eliminates the risk of variability in filtration efficiency and material strength that may come from re-wearing, re-washing and re-sterilizing apparel many times and over a long period of time. Sterile apparel made from stronger materials and sterile gloves with a higher quality film formation will be more resistant to breakage and are more likely to be free from any pinhole type defects.

As well as protecting the process from contamination, sterile clothing should also protect the wearer from the health and safety risks presented by chemicals. Sterile gloves tested to show longer resistance times to permeation by cytotoxic chemicals and sterile clothing certified to provide protection against chemical splashes can contribute to better protection for the wearer. There are also other ways to protect wearers from health and safety risks. For example, sterile clothing that is bio-compatible can mitigate the risk of the clothing causing irritation to the wearer, and sterile gloves that are free from natural rubber latex will eliminate the risk of latex allergies.