1: As the other nonnies have stated- hydration Hydration, HYDRATION. Just not water by itself! Supplement with Gator/Powerade or sports drink equivalent. You'll be sweating out salt and other electrolytes, and you need to recover those. For every eight ounces of water you drink, try to work in at least 2 ounces of sports drink.
2. Frozen fruits- not just for you, but for pets! Make sure it's safe for them, though- apples are always a good bet. If you have access to them, get some hollow bones, stuff them with peanut butter and apples, wrap em in foil, then freeze em for a few hours. It will give your dog something cold to chew on, and something to do without overheating them.
3. LUKEWARM showers/baths- COLD showers can cause too rapid of a drop in body temp and can make you or a pet go into shock.
4. Cool wet cloths- put em on pulse points, like the back of your neck, wrap em around your wrists, etc. Also use them to wipe yourself down.
5. Stay out of the sun as much as possible and put curtains or blankets/sheets over your windows to keep the sun out- this goes double if you're on any kind of acne meds- they make you double susceptible to sunburn, and most medications for mental illness- especially SSRI's like Lexapro or Zoloft- raise heat intolerance.
6. Keep a cool head- literally. Keep your hair damp, or drape a cool cloth over it. Most body heat is lost through the head, so keeping it damp can help heat escape.
7. If you can, get more fans- put one by an open window, facing out- it will pull stale air out of the room and help freshen it up. Use the other fans to point at yourself or pets.
8. Make sure you pay CLOSE attention to the elderly, children, and pets- especially "shy/aloof" animals like birds, ferrets, cats, as they hide it when they're sick. Most parrots can deal with temps up to 95F/36C, but that's not ideal for them. Ferrets can't have temps higher than 20- they HAVE to be cold. Google your pet and see what their temperature thresholds are!
9. Aside from providing plenty of water- with ice in it, if possible- for your pets, offering them the tubs with ice to play in, or ice packs wrapped in cloths to lie on will help immensely. Tubs of ice are also fun for the owners- watching dogs and ferrets play in ice is always cute to watch.
10. Make sure you EAT. Even if you feel too sick/hot to do so, eat not just fruit, something salty, since you'll be sweating a LOT. If you eat something salty and it's like manna from Heaven, it means your sodium is LOW and low sodium is just as bad, if not worse, than low blood sugar! Low sodium shares symptoms with heat stroke, so it's hard to determine what it is- this is why sports drinks are important!
11. Lastly, avoid using computers. The quickest way to heat up a room is by running desktops, even laptops. It sucks, but not running a computer will cut down the heat by a HUGE margin.
Stay safe, nonny! As someone who's had to live without AC in 35C+ weather, I sympathise!
While you are correct with that, and heat is lost fairly proportionately, the other nonny isn't wrong either. Some parts of the body (ears, nose, cheeks, hands, feet) have special blood vessels that help control cooling and warming. So dunking your hands or feet in ice water or keeping your head damp and cool will help keep your whole body cool.
Keeping your head cool implies that the top of the head, the part with the hair on, is where the heat loss happens.
It isn't, as you said. So dunking your hair won't make too much difference, especially since you correctly pointed out that the non hairy bits are where heat loss is concentrated.
The nose and ears only have that property by virtue of sticking off the actual head anyway.
Keep your hands and feet cool, and your face, but only soak your hair if you're into wet clothes (which is not good for your skin and can cause soreness) and ruined fabric furniture.
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Advice from a Southerner
(Anonymous) 2016-07-20 04:13 pm (UTC)(link)2. Frozen fruits- not just for you, but for pets! Make sure it's safe for them, though- apples are always a good bet. If you have access to them, get some hollow bones, stuff them with peanut butter and apples, wrap em in foil, then freeze em for a few hours. It will give your dog something cold to chew on, and something to do without overheating them.
3. LUKEWARM showers/baths- COLD showers can cause too rapid of a drop in body temp and can make you or a pet go into shock.
4. Cool wet cloths- put em on pulse points, like the back of your neck, wrap em around your wrists, etc. Also use them to wipe yourself down.
5. Stay out of the sun as much as possible and put curtains or blankets/sheets over your windows to keep the sun out- this goes double if you're on any kind of acne meds- they make you double susceptible to sunburn, and most medications for mental illness- especially SSRI's like Lexapro or Zoloft- raise heat intolerance.
6. Keep a cool head- literally. Keep your hair damp, or drape a cool cloth over it. Most body heat is lost through the head, so keeping it damp can help heat escape.
7. If you can, get more fans- put one by an open window, facing out- it will pull stale air out of the room and help freshen it up. Use the other fans to point at yourself or pets.
8. Make sure you pay CLOSE attention to the elderly, children, and pets- especially "shy/aloof" animals like birds, ferrets, cats, as they hide it when they're sick. Most parrots can deal with temps up to 95F/36C, but that's not ideal for them. Ferrets can't have temps higher than 20- they HAVE to be cold. Google your pet and see what their temperature thresholds are!
9. Aside from providing plenty of water- with ice in it, if possible- for your pets, offering them the tubs with ice to play in, or ice packs wrapped in cloths to lie on will help immensely. Tubs of ice are also fun for the owners- watching dogs and ferrets play in ice is always cute to watch.
10. Make sure you EAT. Even if you feel too sick/hot to do so, eat not just fruit, something salty, since you'll be sweating a LOT. If you eat something salty and it's like manna from Heaven, it means your sodium is LOW and low sodium is just as bad, if not worse, than low blood sugar! Low sodium shares symptoms with heat stroke, so it's hard to determine what it is- this is why sports drinks are important!
11. Lastly, avoid using computers. The quickest way to heat up a room is by running desktops, even laptops. It sucks, but not running a computer will cut down the heat by a HUGE margin.
Stay safe, nonny! As someone who's had to live without AC in 35C+ weather, I sympathise!
Re: Advice from a Southerner
(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 12:55 am (UTC)(link)Re: Advice from a Southerner
(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)Re: Advice from a Southerner
(Anonymous) 2016-07-31 10:26 am (UTC)(link)It isn't, as you said. So dunking your hair won't make too much difference, especially since you correctly pointed out that the non hairy bits are where heat loss is concentrated.
The nose and ears only have that property by virtue of sticking off the actual head anyway.
Keep your hands and feet cool, and your face, but only soak your hair if you're into wet clothes (which is not good for your skin and can cause soreness) and ruined fabric furniture.