Hair dryer disease

The foehn disease is colloquially referred to as the increased occurrence of heart and circulatory problems, headaches, restlessness, nervousness, sleep disorders and difficulty concentrating, which can be observed in some people when the weather is foehn . Other possible symptoms are rapid fatigue, nausea, irritability, restlessness, general displeasure and defeat, decreased performance, insomnia, depression and the worsening of existing complaints and illnesses. Pressure differences in the air fronts are assumed to be the cause. Whether there is an independent hair dryer disease or whether it is a manifestation of weather sensitivity is controversial.

In Switzerland, among others, Étienne Grandjean and Walter Mörikofer studied the physiological effects of the foehn on test subjects in 1945 . In 1960 Swiss television broadcast the two-part program Der Föhn - Landplage or Scapegoat about the foehn disease, in which Grandjean, contrary to Hans Martin Sutermeister , argued that the foehn disease did not exist.

See also

• Biometeorology
• Meteorotropy

Literature / sources

• Hellmut Berg : The effect of the hair dryer on the human organism. In: Geofisica Pura e Applicata , October 1950, Volume 17, Nos. 3-4, pp. 104-111. doi: 10.1007 / BF02018347
• Joachim Blüthgen, Wolfgang Weischet : General climate geography. Walter de Gruyter, 1980, ISBN 978-3-11-006561-9 , p. 641 .
• Karl Dirnagl : Foehn disease: mass suggestion or biometeorological problem? Abbottempo, Deutsche Abbott GmbH. Book 2 (1967) pp. 28-33
• W. Frey: To the problem of hair dryer disease . In: Wien Klin Wochenschr. , 1965 Feb 26,77, pp. 125-128, PMID 14343425
• P. Jordan: About the cause of the foehn disease . Natural Sciences, Number 39, September 1940, pp. 630-631, ISSN  0028-1042
• Carl Zibung : The foehn - land plague or scapegoat. Two-part report on the origins and effects of the hair dryer. With Peter Wyss (reporter), Johann Häfelin , Hans Martin Sutermeister, Étienne Grandjean , Fridolin Tschudi , Walter Mörikofer, Jean Lugeon , Wolf Weihe and Rolf Knie senior and others. Swiss television , May 22nd and 29th, 1964. Online on the website of the working group foehn research Rheintal-Bodensee .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wissen.de ( Memento of the original dated August 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Foehn disease . In: Microsoft Encarta
3. ↑ Stephan Bader: Climate and Water Cycle , Chapter 6th Lecture, University of Zurich, March 2007; accessed on November 17, 2019
4. ^ E. Grandjean, HM Sutermeister: Föhn and Föhn disease. In: Ars medici: organ of the general practitioner . Volume 35, 1945, p. 494.
5. ↑ Carl Zibung : The Föhn - Plague or Scapegoat. Two-part report on the origins and effects of the hair dryer. With Peter Wyss (reporter), Johann Häfelin , Hans Martin Sutermeister, Étienne Grandjean, Fridolin Tschudi , Walter Mörikofer , Jean Lugeon , Wolf Weihe and Rolf Knie senior and others. Swiss television , May 22nd and 29th, 1964. Online on the website of the working group foehn research Rheintal-Bodensee .

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