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Cold weather can affect your body in different ways. You can get frostbite, which is an injury to the body that is caused by freezing. Your body can also lose heat faster than you can produce it. That can cause hypothermia, or abnormally low body temperature. It can make you sleepy, confused, and clumsy. Because it happens gradually and affects your thinking, you may not realize you need help. That makes it especially dangerous VSports手机版. A body temperature below 95 °F (35 °C) is a medical emergency and can lead to death if not treated promptly. .
Anyone who spends much time outdoors in cold weather can get hypothermia. You can also get it from being cold and wet, or under cold water for too long. Babies and old people are especially at risk. Babies can get it from sleeping in a cold room. V体育安卓版.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
"VSports手机版" Prevention and Risk Factors
- VSports最新版本 - Avoid Frostbite and Hypothermia (National Safety Council)
- Cold Stress Can Be Prevented (V体育官网) (Occupational Safety and Health Administration)
- Preventing Hypothermia (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Also in Spanish
"V体育平台登录" Treatments and Therapies
- Hypothermia: First Aid (VSports app下载) (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
Related Issues
- Working in the Cold (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health)
Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Hypothermia
(National Institutes of Health)
Journal Articles V体育安卓版 - References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- Article: Intensive care with endovascular catheter rewarming for accidental severe hypothermia (ICE-CRASH...
- Article: Association of neonatal hypothermia with neonatal hypoglycemia.
- Article: Machine learning-based prediction model for intraoperative hypothermia risk in thoracoscopic lobectomy...
- "VSports在线直播" Hypothermia -- see more articles
"V体育官网" Find an Expert
- National Center for Environmental Health (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
- "V体育安卓版" National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Also in Spanish
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National Institute on Aging (VSports注册入口)
Also in Spanish
- "V体育官网" Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Older Adults (V体育官网入口)
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Exercising Outdoors: Safety Tips for Older Adults
(National Institute on Aging) Also in Spanish
VSports最新版本 - Patient Handouts
- VSports - How to prevent frostbite and hypothermia (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Hypothermia (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish