🥶 Hypothermia
This is a medical emergency that occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce heat, causing a dangerously low body temperature. Normal body temperature is around 98.6 F (37 C)
For mild cases, use fire, blankets, or another person's body heat to warm the victim. In more advanced stages, rewarm the victim slowly by placing one or more persons in body contact with the victim. Place canteens of hot water insulated with socks or towels on the groin, armpits, and sides of the neck of the victim.
🥶 Frostnip is the earliest stage of frostbite.
To treat it, remove all wet clothing. Wet clothes draw heat away from the body.
Place chilled parts of the body in warm (not hot) water for 20 to 30 minutes until all sensation returns. Don't use heating pads, stoves, fireplaces, or radiators to rewarm because the affected skin can be numb and easily burn.
🥶 Frostbite At first, cold skin and a prickling feeling, then numbness. Skin that looks red, white, bluish-white, grayish-yellow, purplish, brown or ashen, depending on the severity of the condition and usual skin color.
Gently rewarm frostbitten areas the same way as frostnip. NO DIRECT HEAT! Consider taking pain medication because thawed skin can be very painful.
PREVENT THESE INJURIES by removing yourself from ANY environment that eventually lead to one of these cold weather dangers.
❄️Enjoy the winter weather and STAY SAFE!
