Living in a small apartment can have a bad effect on your health

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If small the apartment does not allow you to have personal space, this contributes to the emergence of chronic stress, which has a bad effect on health, neurologist Ersteya Deis said in an interview.

The specialist explained why people who live in limited conditions have small-sized apartment, well-being and health may deteriorate. According to Days, such dwellings quickly become cluttered, because as people live in them, they acquire more and more things (especially if the family grows). As a result, there is a problem of bad air or pollution.

“In small rooms there is no through ventilation, various infections spread faster. Due to the lack of fresh air, carbon dioxide accumulates in the rooms of small-sized apartments, it becomes suffocating,” said the neurologist.

Days added that poor air quality in housing contributes to a decrease in immunity, deterioration of respiratory organs, and sleep disturbances.

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In addition, limited space can become a factor of constant stress, if it deprives people of the opportunity to have a purely personal space, without being constantly in view of others. Both adults and children can suffer in such conditions, they may have psycho-emotional and behavioral problems.

“Those who live in small apartments should walk more often, keep the house clean, and not clutter it with furniture . You can also try to divide a small home into personal sections: for example, mom's kitchen, children's corner, dad's sofa. Then everyone will understand that this is their safe personal space,” the expert shared her recommendation.