Hypothermia and coffee.?
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The urge to pee can make you feel as if you are cold but it is something of an illusion. As pee is produced by the body it would be at body heat from the start and it would therefore actually help the body retain heat. However there is a lot of sense in the advice as when you are asleep a combination of blankets and body heat will mean you will be as warm as you can be. To get up and pee you have to leave that environment and go out into the cold. When you return a lot of the heat built up will have dissipated.
In cases of hypothermia it is important to heat the body mass slowly and not the limbs. Hot coffee would therefore be bad. Tepidly warm coffee would probably be good.
The Russians had the idea that if a man got hypothermia the solution was to strip him naked and put him to bed with a buxom naked blond to his front and a buxom naked brunet to his rear. That had the benefit of warming him gently and when he woke it did wonders for his ego!!
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When they are in a hypothermic state, no. The change in temperature in the interior of their body will do more harm then good at that point.
The most effective and safest treatment for all levels of hypothermia is the addition of heat to the body core, rather than via the periphery.. For Hypotheria you should:
# Seek or build a shelter to get the person out of the cold, windy, wet environment.
# Get the victim into dry clothes and keep in a horizontal recovery position.
# Start a fire or get a cookstove going to provide warmth.
# If conscious give a warm, sweetened drink - NO coffee or tea - and NEVER ALCOHOL!
Remember to handle the victim very gently.
FYI:
Hypothermia is defined as a core temperature of less than 35 degrees Celcius (37 degrees Celcius is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit). Hypothermia is also considered the clinical state of sub-normal temperature when the body is unable to generate sufficient heat to efficiently maintain functions.
The response to a downward variation in body temperature is shivering, which is the body's attempt to generate heat. Shivering is an involuntary contraction and expansion of muscle tissue occurring on a large scale. This muscle action creates heat through friction.
Once hypothermia develops, the heat deficit is shared by two body compartments, the shell and the core. The shell consists of the outer 1.65 mm of skin and has an average area of 1.8 square meters. This constitutes approximately 10% of a 70 kg mass. The remainder of the body is the core.
However, when we speak of Core Temperature it is the thoracic, or critical core we are concerned with, mainly the area of the heart, lungs and brain.
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