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Why are people suffering from hypothermia wrapped in shiny silver blankets?
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∙ 12y ago
Silver surfaces are poor emitters of heat so it allows them to stay warm which in hindsight would warm their body temperature up or atleast not allow it to drop any furthur
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∙ 12y ago
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What kind of clothing do people wear in Lesotho?
They wear masks, and most if them wear blankets wrapped around them.
What type of warfare was attempted in Pontiac's War?
Germ Warfare was used when blankets were exposed to people suffering from smallpox and the contaminated blankets were allowed to fall into the hands of Native Americans at Fort Pitt.
Why is it important not to rewarm a person too quickly who is suffering from hypothermia?
People who have hypothermia are too cold to maintain homeostasis. If they are heated to quickly, they will enter a biological state called 'shock', a potentially fatal condition that results from massive changes in environment too fast for the body to adapt.
What is the function of rescue blanket in a first aid kit?
The obvious answer is to keep people warm, in cases of hypothermia or shock. The less obvious answer is that blankets can be used to splint limbs.
How did the people die on the Titanic besides drowning?
hypothermia
How many people die of hypothermia a year?
700 in us
Are cotton blankets better than silk blankets?
Cotton blankets are usually cheaper and generally easier to clean, but some people feel that silk is more comfortable.
What was the coldness people died of in the sea?
coldness the word is called hypothermia (:
Why do people sleep with blankets?
so they don't get cold!!
What do sotho people wear?
they wear blankets for clothes
Can you list the people who died on the titanic because of hypothermia?
It would be pretty much impossible to determine what people died from hypothermia causing them to drown or must plan drowning. Given that not all the bodies were recovered would make it even harder to figure out. You might be able to find a list someplace of the people that were in lifeboats that ended up dying, presumably of hypothermia.
What is a Hoover blanket?
newspaper that people used as blankets in the 1920s
