Maximilien Carlier 7:43 a.m., July 16, 2022
This weekend marks a new wave of holiday departures.
Bison Futé calls on users "to be very careful" and "recommends" to avoid driving during the hottest hours.
Faced with this situation, Europe 1 followed a couple of retirees in the North of France, just before their departure on vacation.
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"We are a little afraid for the road, we will have to be careful. We have provided the cooler with the blocks of ice, the very cold bottles of water. Inside, there is also the mist sprayer that we going to use in hot weather".
On each seat there is a damp terry towel.
Impossible not to use the air conditioning for this retired couple, even if sometimes, it sometimes creates some tension: "Sometimes, I tell my husband to put it a little less loud, because it's no use being cold This is not the purpose of air conditioning", she explains at the microphone of Europe 1.
Air conditioning yes but...
But beware of air conditioning, which cools the air and dries it out, as Charles Charani points out.
"We must avoid having too great a temperature difference between the inside and the outside of the vehicle. We can tolerate five or six degrees, but not beyond that, it can cause muscle problems, you can have pain in the neck, decrypts the general practitioner, explaining that there can "be a dryness in the mucous membranes".
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In this case, use saline solution.
On the road to vacation, drink water, advises this doctor and stop more regularly.