What are the effects of lighting on human health? How to design home lighting to be healthier
Modern home life requires both lighting and decoration. Light is an indispensable friend of mankind, but excessive, excessive, and fickle light will have a certain impact on human health. What are the effects on human health? How to design home lighting to be healthier? Let's follow the editor of BENWEI LIGHTING to find out.
What are the effects of lighting on human health:
1. Damage to eyesight, leading to cataracts:
According to investigations and studies, children who sleep on the night before the age of 2 have a myopia rate of about 55%. Children who sleep with lights off have a myopia rate of only about 10%. The poor visual environment caused by light pollution is considered to be an important factor in the high incidence of myopia. More studies have shown that the incidence of cataracts is as high as 45% when working and living in a white bright polluted environment for a long time.
2. Upset, anxious, unable to sleep"
Although people’s eyes are closed when they sleep, bright light still passes through the eyelids and affects sleep. According to his clinical statistics, about 5% to 6% of insomnia are caused by environmental factors such as noise and light, of which light accounts for about 10%. , Once insomnia, the human body cannot get enough rest, it will cause deeper health problems.
3. Affect hormone secretion and even lead to precocious puberty in children:
The light shining on the retina at night will reduce the production of melatonin, which is an important substance that regulates the circadian rhythm. Light plunders the night and disrupts the rhythm of hormone secretion, which may lead to an imbalance in the normal cycle. If children are exposed to too much When exposed to light, the secretion of melatonin will be reduced, leading to precocious puberty or excessive genital development.
4. Make people depressed:
Excessive exposure to light at night can lead to depression, and light pollution can cause dizziness, upset, depression, physical fatigue and other symptoms similar to neurasthenia.
Home lighting
The above is a brief introduction about the impact of lighting on human health. I believe that after the above introduction, everyone will have a better understanding and understanding of the hazards of excessive lighting. Therefore, when designing your own home lighting, We must pay attention, how can the design of home lighting be healthier? Let's take a look at the following introduction:
How to design home lighting to be healthier:
1. First is the living room. Healthy lighting can make the living room more vivid and attractive. Considering the frequency and diversity of activities in the living room, there is no other room in the family that can compare with the living room. The living room is the heart of the family. It is the main reason why it needs high-quality lighting. Because of the many different applications in the living room, the key tips of lighting must be flexible and combined with aesthetics. Starting from the main lighting, it should be slightly darker than the required illuminance, and it can be used by other The light spots are supplemented, partly for effects and partly for special tasks. For example, the light used for reading near the sofa can be used to illuminate where and when needed.
2. The restaurant is a place for entertaining. Your guests should be able to see the food you are preparing. You can create a relaxed and elegant atmosphere for any banquet through various lighting controlled by dimmers. The overall lighting can be created throughout the room. Bright and warm atmosphere. The usual solution is to hang a single light fixture on the table. For a larger table, two or three small and matching light fixtures may be used.
3. Sleeping in the bedroom is mostly done in the dark. However, the bedroom is also a place for dressing and dressing in the morning, reading and watching TV at night. The subtle combination of various lighting provides the required balance. It should be neutral and It is relaxing and best achieved by using more than one lighting point, and then consider the actual lighting needs: brighter light for the dressing table and wardrobe, and reading lighting around the bed.
4. Reading in the study has relatively high requirements for lighting. The illuminance is mainly determined by the age of the owner. For details, bright white lighting is the right choice. It will reduce eye fatigue, and weak lighting will cause a long time. People working in front of the computer screen feel tired. Ensure that there is enough overhead lighting to illuminate the keyboard area. To avoid glare and screen reflections, the desk lamp should be angled away from the screen to avoid tiring reflections, in order to be a special place in the room. Areas have brighter light. For example, for reading, try to use light bulbs with shades while not disrupting the atmosphere of the room. It will provide direct light where you need it.
5. The kitchen has always been the warm and bright center of the family. The kitchen is actually a kind of studio, so it needs conventional lighting without shadows. The number of lamps used depends on the size of the room. If you have a double dining room, then In a large kitchen, lighting can be used to blur the boundary between it and the cooking area and separate them. For example, the warm light shining down on the table close to the table will create an intimate space and draw people around the table.
6. The bathroom needs to have good conventional lighting as a whole, and it also needs local lighting such as mirrors and washstands. The lighting from the lamps installed on the ceiling can provide basic background lighting, and add installation around the mirror used for makeup. The lamps on the side will provide bright and uniform light from both sides, so as to avoid the shadow cast on the face when the light source is placed on the mirror. In addition, safety is extremely important in the bathroom. The accessories of the lamp should be Vapor-proof and waterproof.
