3 Basic Ways Facing of Hypothermia

3 Basic Ways Facing of Hypothermia - Tips on overcoming Hypothermia When Climbing.

For backpackers, Hypothermia is still so one thing most feared.

This is common due to the extreme weather and the body cannot adapt to the conditions that for various reasons, one of which is due to physical conditions that have been very fatigued while exploring the region or a particular field.

The present condition of the body is not able to return the hot temperatures because temperature too quickly, and this could be fatal.

And then, what if there was one of our comrades who has experienced this condition?

This is one of the few survival skills that should be possessed by travelers and backpackers.

Hypothermia illustration  - image by Google

• Hypothermia

Hypothermia is a condition in which the body's mechanisms for setting the temperature of the difficulty of overcoming the pressure of cold temperatures.

Hypothermia can also be defined as the temperature of the inside of the body below 35 ° c. The human body is able to regulate the temperature in the thermoneutral zone, i.e. between 36.5-37.5 ° c. The temperature outside, the response of the body to regulate its temperature will actively balance the production of heat and heat loss in the body.

Hypothermia is one of the biggest enemies of the mountaineers because Hypothermia can strike anybody, not getting to know Men/Women, young/old, Hypothermia can also cause death.

• The symptoms of Hypothermia and indications:

» Hypothermia begins with symptoms of chills as usual, from the shaky hold cold until you met teeth because it does not withstand cold.

» When the victim's body is wet, then attack hypothermia will be increasingly fast and excellent.

» In addition to when the wind blows fast, then the climber will quickly lose body heat ("from the cill factor"). So if the body is wet because of the rain and blustery wind blows, then potential hypothermia become "paradoxical feeling of warmth" will happen more quickly.

» Symptoms of hypothermia Peak is a victim no longer feel cold, but she even feels the heat (in his book Norman Edwin called "paradoxical feeling of warmth"). Therefore the victim will take off his clothes one by one and keep naked but still feeling the heat.

» Hypothermia attack nerves and moving slowly, therefore the victim doesn't feel he's been the victim of hypothermia reply. From the time a victim could not withstand the cold till even feel the heat in the middle of the air freeze, the victim feels wrote is usually not aware of the reply he has been stricken with hypothermia. In this case, Comrade teammates (especially team leader or friend more climbers experience) is very important to keep an eye on whether the friend we are sick (hypothermia, frostbitten, mountain sickness, cold stress, etc.). So if there's a fella teammate of our start behaving odd reply outside of his costume, then we ought to be suspicious and wary of what's up with her and of course needs to be immediately checked or questioned whether she was a "conscious" or not.

» In one case, a climber chick with "majestically by" changing her wet clothes with the dried, wrote before her companion. Surely if she was aware, that chick definitely wouldn't dare do such a thing; but by that time she had been exposed to hypothermia and don't realize it. That Chick returned her consciousness once it gets below (rest and meal). When asking about "her way", she even did not feel done something odd reply. Be the drive home and she became Secretariat materials quips. : v

» In the case of the sufferer hypothermia stages on "paradoxical feeling of warmth" in addition to feeling the heat, he was also exposed to hallucinations. However, in many other things, hallucinations have also been going on even if the victim does not on the stages of suffered a "paradoxical feeling of warmth". What is clear, when the victim hypothermia already lost "awareness", then she will be easily exposed to hallucinations. And in this hallucination factor is very dangerous because the victim will "look at a variety of things" (like a person Possessed) and he would pursue what he sees it regardless of what there is in his presence. So it's not surprising reply hypothermia found many victims fall into a crevasse in the nude and had died.

» So what is the overcoming if one of our comrade exposed by hypothermia? if the hypothermia adequate light is still manageable, but if the reply has already begun to the bare and running or screaming his hallucinations, it would hard as hell to overcome it. An easy and practical is doing preventative action against hypothermia.

• Survival Skills :

1. Replace wet clothes with a dried, then wrapped them up in a blanket or a sleeping bag. As much as possible one person there who delivers her body heat to the person.

2. When the chills began to wear off, ' patient ' is given to drink plain water warm and hearty food.

3. If he is experiencing moderate or severe hypothermia, special care should be exercised in the hospital in the form of rewarming or increased body temperature again.

Note : Please increase the survival skills of yours before deciding to have an adventure, especially for the purpose with the extreme conditions.