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title:  Air Conditioning Side Effects and How to Prevent Them
description: "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 ..."
author: Dr Marina Nani (Editor-in-Chief)
date: 2026-07-20T11:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-26T21:19:56.358Z
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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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