By the beginning of the heating season with the social networks began to appear the recommendations relating to heating in cold apartments. Some tips from the hair stand on end. Journalists simply dreams about hypothermia and broadcast their nonsense in the masses. Obzavidovatsya so you can ...
People can actually freeze to death in her apartment. It occurs more frequently in those countries where it is not always provided for heating. This happens at a temperature of room air somewhere +10 degrees. Freeze usually elderly.
Older people do not always feel the cold and is not always able to adapt to changes in temperature.
Some medicines may reduce the ability of our body to produce heat.
If your blood sugar is low, the power may not be enough to produce heat.
When violations of the thyroid people too cold. Thyroid hormones act as uncouplers. They interfere with our body to store energy. This means that in the normal hormone levels of the nutrients just fly into the furnace and warm us from the inside. But if a few of hormones (such as hypothyroidism), the heat produced is less. The body stores energy, and it can not spend. Sad story.
Even in older people happens dehydration. If the body little water, then heat is lost faster. Remember warmer water? They warmer, precisely because of water. Water has a high heat capacity. If a little water, and heat capacity below.
Some elderly people occasionally miss a glass. Alcohol dilates blood vessels, and heat is lost.
People with dementia also quickly freeze. Not only that, they do not always realize what you need to dress up, so more and dementia literally affects the areas in the head, which are involved in thermoregulation. It is also a sad story.
And with all this bunch of reasons why older people sometimes meet the heating season. A season may be delayed. Here you need to carefully monitor themselves and apply here are the rules:
- The temperature of the house is better not to be kept below 18 degrees. If not, then you need to temporarily move to where warmer.
- One house is better not to sit. You can not understand what it gets cold, and did not notice at the signs of hypothermia. Hypothermia strongly suffers head, and older people start to kink.
Here for illustration, you can tell us about what is found frozen lonely old house. They are found somewhere under the table and undressed. It looks very strange. The fact is that when supercooling, when a person is about to die, it is paradoxical undressing. At some point, it seems that the body is burning, and people take off their clothes. And under the table and in other secluded places people find, because the instinct is triggered, which causes the refuge. For this reason, if an elderly person in a cold apartment starts to look for something in the corners, you need to watch him. This may be the first bell supercooling.
- Advance plug the cracks in the windows, and if remained drafts, then close the window curtains. At the bottom there is a link to my article about overheating. There's about the same story. Curtains are not allowed and do not produce heat. This is an important part of the room to protect.
- Before going to bed it is important to eat something. So difficult it will be warm. These are standard recommendations for tourists who sleep outdoors.
- You need to dress warmer. The bed can put a heating pad. If you're sitting on the couch watching TV, it is useful to hide the legs with a blanket or rug. For this reason, older people do not recommend running through the apartment and do exercises to warm up. Older people are already often fall, and with an extra jacket and pants can be in no thunder through the nut and broke his hip.
Here, too, it should be noted that when an older person are strongly podzamerzshim, it must be warm to the place, you can not turn, turn over, rub and cause jerk. Because with a decrease in body temperature below 35 degrees, our heart becomes extremely vulnerable to fatal arrhythmias. If frozen grandfather shake, he can die.
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