Air-Conditioning Sickness Self-Check
Feeling unwell from summer air conditioning? Tick your symptoms and enter the temperature gap and exposure time to see your risk level and what to do.
🩺 Symptom Check
Select every symptom you feel now. The more body systems affected (whole-body, respiratory, digestive, etc.), the higher the likelihood of AC sickness.
Whole-body
Respiratory
Muscle & Joint
Circulation & Temperature
Digestive
Female-specific
Emergency red flags
⚠️ A fever of 38°C+ or shortness of breath may signal a different condition (Legionnaires' disease, pneumonia). Checking these immediately escalates to 'See a doctor'.
❄️ Cooling Environment
Difference between indoor cooling and outdoor temperature. Recommended within 5-8°C.
Total time spent in a cooled space today.
📋 AC Sickness Risk Result
This may be early AC sickness. It usually improves by reducing the temperature gap, staying warm, and drinking fluids.
Score breakdown
- Symptom weight
- +2
- Multiple systems
- +0
- Temperature gap
- +0
- AC exposure
- +1
💡 What to do now
- •Raise the AC setting by 1-2°C to keep the indoor-outdoor gap within 5-8°C.
- •Stay warm with a light layer or blanket and drink warm water often.
- •Ventilate every 1-2 hours and avoid direct AC airflow.
- •Do light stretching to ease muscle stiffness.
🤔 AC sickness or a cold?
No fever, with headache, chills, fatigue, and indigestion together, and improvement when you turn off the AC and rest — that leans toward AC sickness. If fever and cough worsen, suspect a cold or flu.
⚕️ This result is a reference self-check, not a medical diagnosis. If symptoms persist or worsen, see a physician.
🛡️ Prevention tips
- ✓Keep the indoor-outdoor gap within 5-8°C (indoor 26-28°C recommended)
- ✓Ventilate every 1-2 hours; avoid direct AC airflow
- ✓Prepare a light layer or lap blanket for warmth
- ✓Drink warm water often (maintain fluids and body temperature)
- ✓Clean AC filters / cooling towers regularly (prevent bacteria)
Reference sources
- 📚 KDCA National Health Information Portal — AC sickness
- 🏥 Korean Academy of Family Medicine — summer health
- 🌡️ Recommended indoor-outdoor gap / over-cooling guidance (general health guidance)
※ This tool's scoring is for reference only and is not a medical diagnostic standard.