Re: Cold hands ? - Try hot water
- From: barryxwind@xxxxxxx
- Date: 12 Mar 2007 06:00:15 -0700
The Army's been there, done that. We cheat around here and 'soak' our
hands, along with the entire body, in the local powerplant lake, until
things warm up.
Excerpt from http://www.mothernature.com/Library/Bookshelf/Books/48/45.cfm
below. -B
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"Train yourself with a warm soak. It may sound obvious, but placing
your hands in warm water before venturing into the cold weather helps
keep blood flowing to your fingertips. Murray Hamlet, D.V.M., director
of the Plans and Operations Division at the U.S. Army Research
Institute of Environmental Medicine in Natick, Massachusetts, devised
this exercise for troops in Alaska: Place your hands in a container of
water heated to 104° to 107°F (hot water from the tap) for two to five
minutes while you're sitting in a comfortable room. Then go to a cold
area-preferably someplace outdoors-and place your hands in 104° to
107° water for ten minutes. Then repeat the two- to five-minute indoor
hot soak again.
While the cold environment normally makes your peripheral blood
vessels constrict, the sensation of the warm water makes them open.
When you repeatedly get the blood vessels to open despite the cold,
you are effectively "training" your hands to counter the constriction
reflex. After 50 treatments, Dr. Hamlet says, most people can go into
the cold without losing circulation in their hands."
For those of you that get cold hands when sailing, we often bring a
small cooler of hot water to the beach to submerge our hands when they
get cold. It is amazing how fast it rewarms your hands. Often I go
out, sail a few runs, hands get cold (open palm mitts in my case) come
back to the beach, put them into the water and then they are fine for
the rest of the session. Occasionally I need to put them in again but
it makes a huge difference in comfort and recovery time.
If you haven't tried it, you may be surprised how positive an impact
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