If you don’t have an ice bath handy but you have cold packs, you can place cold packs under a persons arms in the pits, between their legs near the crotch and on their neck.
If you’re working in heat (inside or out) we used to take bandanas (or old t-shirts, towels, etc), soak them in water and wrap it around your neck. Works wonders to keep your brain working and body slightly cooler.
If you don’t have an ice bath handy but you have cold packs, you can place cold packs under a persons arms in the pits, between their legs near the crotch and on their neck.
Does this work because it’s cooling down arteries and in turn taking cooler blood around the body? Not sure how human heat sinks work :)
Yep, cooling the blood in the major arteries for further circulation. It works opposite as well if you need to warm someone with hypothermia.
Thanks for sharing. I hope to never need it, but you never know :)
If you’re working in heat (inside or out) we used to take bandanas (or old t-shirts, towels, etc), soak them in water and wrap it around your neck. Works wonders to keep your brain working and body slightly cooler.
Ye olde line-cook air conditioning, a towel in a bucket of ice water in the walk-in cooler