Comments on: Trail Tip: The Shivers and Hypothermia http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/ Ideas, advice, news and reviews, to help you become "one with your pack" Tue, 27 Sep 2011 21:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Bruce http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/comment-page-1/#comment-1252 Bruce Sun, 20 May 2007 15:02:32 +0000 http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/#comment-1252 Walter, Thanks for the advice and you can now get to the Princeton page with the fixed link. Bruce Walter,

Thanks for the advice and you can now get to the Princeton page with the fixed link.

Bruce

]]> By: wade http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/comment-page-1/#comment-1214 wade Thu, 17 May 2007 21:24:36 +0000 http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/#comment-1214 Good advice! Good advice!

]]> By: Walter Underwood http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/comment-page-1/#comment-1200 Walter Underwood Thu, 17 May 2007 00:11:52 +0000 http://lightbackpacking.com/2007/05/13/trail-tip-the-shivers-and-hypothermia/#comment-1200 I'm not sure that a cup of tea helps that much. It is like warming a bathtub by pouring in a cup of tea. Caffeine is a bad idea. Getting hydrated and fueled is a big help. A small amount of sugar can make a quick improvement. A better use of hot water is to fill several water bottles with boiling water, put them in socks, then put the person and the bottles in a sleeping bag. Even better, a hypothermia wrap, often called a "hypothermia burrito". The Princeton link you gave has a good description of the wrap (but fix the quotes in your href attribute so that it works). http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/hypocold.shtml I’m not sure that a cup of tea helps that much. It is like warming a bathtub by pouring in a cup of tea. Caffeine is a bad idea.

Getting hydrated and fueled is a big help. A small amount of sugar can make a quick improvement.

A better use of hot water is to fill several water bottles with boiling water, put them in socks, then put the person and the bottles in a sleeping bag. Even better, a hypothermia wrap, often called a “hypothermia burrito”.

The Princeton link you gave has a good description of the wrap (but fix the quotes in your href attribute so that it works).

http://www.princeton.edu/~oa/safety/hypocold.shtml

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