Post AWTNdVQeOMDTejIHyq by elilla@transmom.love
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(DIR) Post #ALWHEVHNMSncaGgpGa by elilla@transmom.love
2022-07-15T14:24:46Z
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with temps surpassing 40º in the UK and my European friends woefully unprepared to deal with hotter and hotter summers, I thought I'd share how we do it back home. - Change your wardrobe. Don't wear jeans or thick, tight clothing in summer. Light colours help, but it's less important than the fabric being loose and breathable. Imagine you get a gust of wind; can you feel the wind? Linen fabric and synthetic activewear are great for this. - Cover all your skin when going out into the sun, either with loose breathable clothing, or sunscreen. - "But I'm only going to the tram" – if you don't like dying of melanoma, sunscreen yourself before walking under the radiation of the nuclear deathstar in the sky. - Wear a summer hat and/or sunglasses. - Always be sipping. Doesn't matter if you feel thirsty or not, carry water bottles everywhere, fill them on taps, sip often. If you don't the symptom isn't necessarily thirst; it's feeling tired, sluggish, brainfog etc., eventually sunstroke. - Learn how to make hydrating serum (1L water, 20g sugar, 5g salt). In case someone has sunstroke give them serum; it hits faster than pure water. (also good for other forms of dehydration.) - Tea and coffe hydrate you, even accounting for diuretic effect. Alcohol dehydrates; if drinking alcohol, drink at least the same amount of water with it. - Give up not sweating. Sweating is good. It's a very efficient evaporative cooling system (that's why you need breathable clothing, and sipping water). - Cold meals, refrigerated fruit and ice drinks are great. Counter-intuitively, hot drinks cool you down too, by hyping up the sweat system. Same goes for hot-spicy food. (this literally cools you down, look it up.) - Don't go outside when the sun is high. Don't eat in outside tables when the sun is high. Don't go to parks, pools or beaches when the sun is high. Wait until the deathstar isn't killing you. - Lower your expectations of productivity. It's the apocalypse, fuck work. Procrastinate in the hot hours. Kill time. Nap. Implement the siesta as an institution. - The buildings here are more prepared for cold weather than hot. You might want to invest in good fans, or even cold floors. High ceilings are fresher. - The higher the air humidity %, the less effective is sweating at cooling you. Be extra careful on high-humidity high-temp days. - summer nights can be surprisingly chilly. don't get caught unprepared in your super-breathable, breezy hot girl look during a temp drop with rain and wind outside 3am.
(DIR) Post #ALXXb8h7I2xHciVNmy by cel@skinnyver.se
2022-07-16T05:58:49.729332Z
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@elilla all of these remind me of things my brazilian mother has told and pestered me about lol
(DIR) Post #ALd6jOCUWdtxMdVfgu by elilla@transmom.love
2022-07-16T07:06:19Z
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@cel yup I'm just posting mom's advice and getting likes for it. I have become the brazilian mom, wielder of havaianas
(DIR) Post #AWSWETxLR2CyHJlkNU by Aviva_Gary@noc.social
2023-06-07T20:23:03Z
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@elilla good list but also how and what you cook and how and when you exercise is important too
(DIR) Post #AWTNdUVvnEqWookzZY by regordane@mastodon.me.uk
2023-06-07T20:31:59Z
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@elilla sorry, wrong. Sunstroke has nothing to do with dehydration/hydration. The only way to avoid sunstroke is to stay cool. Fluids won't prevent or treat it.Much of your advice about how to stay cool is sound, but it is wrong and potentially dangerous to confuse sunstroke (due to overheating, deadly) with dehydration (due to insufficient fluid intake, uncomfortable, but not life threatening in otherwise healthy individuals with access to water).
(DIR) Post #AWTNdVQeOMDTejIHyq by elilla@transmom.love
2023-06-08T06:20:19Z
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@regordane Two things:1. If you're dehydrated your body cannot sweat effectively. Sweating is the body's primary way to reduce temperature. If you can't reduce temperature you get sunstroke. Therefore dehydration is a factor in sunstroke.Sources:Nose/Kamijo/Masuki, " Interactions between body fluid homeostasis and thermoregulation in humans " https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780444639127000254?via%3Dihub(see section "Interactive effects of varied plasma volume and hyperosmolality on thermoregulation").Sawka et al., "Human tolerance to heat strain during exercise: influence of hydration"https://journals.physiology.org/doi/abs/10.1152/jappl.1992.73.1.368?rfr_dat=cr_pub++0pubmed&url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.orgMaeda et al., " Risk factors for heatstroke among Japanese forestry workers "https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1539/joh.48.223Accordingly, medical authorities on heat stroke prevention: - Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/heat-stroke/symptoms-causes/syc-20353581 - Victoria State's Better Health Channel https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/heat-stress-preventing-heatstroke#factors-that-contribute-to-heatstroke - John Hopkins Medicine: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/dehydration-and-heat-stroke - Hong Kong Occupational Health Council: https://www.oshc.org.hk/eng/main/hot/Heat/ - NHK Japan: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/backstories/2042/ - WebMD: https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/heat-stroke-symptoms-and-treatment - Australia's Health Direct: https://www.healthdirect.gov.au/heatstroke#getEvery single health authority listed above lists dehydration as a contributing factor in heatstroke (not just heat exhaustion), and continuous hydration as a recommended preventive measure.2. Your tone is toxic, contemptibly petty and pathetically aggressive. Going reply-persoing "sorry, wrong" to explain things you don't understand to Third World women who lived with heat all their lives will get you defederated. This isn't Twitter.
(DIR) Post #AWTNdWCVWQUu39gVZg by regordane@mastodon.me.uk
2023-06-07T20:34:54Z
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@elilla sipping water won't prevent sunstroke.
(DIR) Post #AWUdD0fPvxiL94Y4VU by twizzay@thisis.mylegendary.quest
2023-06-08T20:50:38.524219Z
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@elilla An excellent way to keep cool in bed when it is hot is to dampen your outer sheet with water and then turn a fan on over it. Will keep you extra cool until the water evaporates.For those who may be bedridden or enjoy midday naps in bed. :evillightsaber: :sun_photo:
(DIR) Post #AWUdVaZZAzX3iWffKC by mjdxp@fosstodon.org
2022-07-20T12:09:49Z
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@elilla - put ice cubes in your clothes. they will keep you cool for a little while, and when they melt they will continue to regulate body heat- put ice cream in your food. it will not only keep you cool, but it will taste delicious. turn your ham sandwich into an ice cream and ham sandwich- wear long clothes, expose as little skin as possible to prevent sunburns- use liquid nitrogen to help cool yourself off- consider cryogenic stasis
(DIR) Post #AWUdVbOy5seIHwiiRc by twizzay@thisis.mylegendary.quest
2023-06-08T20:54:02.160715Z
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@mjdxp @elilla The true life hacker puts dry ice in their clothes, and liquid nitrogen on their food.