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Similarly, run your head under cold water
by __s 5y ago
Similarly, run your head under cold water
- sneak 5y agoI find that drinking near-freezing-temperature water also helps, although it's somewhat limited by your stomach's ability to transfer heat. I think the cold constricts blood vessels in the stomach and limits the total amount of heat-transfer-per-second pretty quickly, resulting in a "water baby" that takes 20-30 minutes to come up to temperature and leave the stomach. It's great the first couple minutes, though.
- whymauri 5y agoBingo... when I was a kid, we lived south of Miami and were part of a cult (different story for a different time, lol). We spent a lot of the summer time on intersections handing out miscellaneous religious texts to commuters in their cars. In any case, the wet t-shirt concept was too uncomfortable and chaffed. Instead, we ended up taking our baseball caps, dipping them in freezing cold water coolers, and putting them on our head. You'd get like, 20 minutes of relief before returning to dunk the hat again. Having the soaking hat drip on your face and neck provides a similar experience to running your head under cold water without needing an accessible spigot.