The intriguing connection between climate and human emotions

Effect of weather on bodily health

In general, health conditions are related to weather extremes: Heat, floods, and storms – This always has physical-health consequences. All these events may result to sickness and even death in bad situation, particularly to the immunocompromised persons. For example, a rise in temperature results in heat rash and heat exhaustion while low temperatures or floods lead to waterborne diseases and physical body damage respectively. They also impair crops’ growth hence foods’ scarcity, malnutrition inclusive. Extreme weather has also been observed to increase incidences of weather related violence and possibly overall health might be affected physically.

Affective disorder specifically relates to the kind of disorder that is related to seasons, and the symptoms are severally realized in winter. SAD can also happen in spring or summer, but the incidence is very rare. Symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder include they are similar to low mood and less energy, loss of interest in activity and things one used to love, sleeping more than usual and gaining weight. Whereas winter SAD patients will exhibit features such as Sleep Long Hypersomnia and Comfort eating, summer SAD patient will exhibit features such as Insomnia and Anorexia. Daylight exposure is reduced in autumn and winter and is linked with SAD The amount of time which people spend in daylight is reduced during Fall and winter and this is a major cause of SAD.

They can also be spread by the Influence of weather. As for the prediction it is delineated, the rates of distribution of the vector borne diseases are capable to increase with temperature up to the limits of optimum level. Moreover, with relation to rainfall flooding that is mainly associated with climatic factors, there is conclusive relation with disease transmission and preval