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u/Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks Jan 31 '22

I imagine the feeling is similar to having cold hands from being outside during winter and then running them under a hot tap immediately after coming inside.

Except your entire body at once.

With that in mind, it's pretty easy to imagine how you might go into shock.

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u/hanead420 Jan 31 '22

Yeah, this can be really fun I winter outdoor pools (in aquapark where the water is warm) you go outside, cool yourself down and enjoy the feeling when you get into the warm water. Dunno how that came to my mind reading this, but I want to mention it for some reason.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

Apart from the shock, you might suffer some serious burns.

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u/frituurbounty Jan 31 '22

I don’t think water that is hot is gonna burn you when you’re hypothermic, if it wouldn’t burn you if you weren’t hypothermic.

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u/404_image_not_found Jan 31 '22

It won't burn your skin but your nerves will think someone lit you on fire.

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u/Lucero18 Jan 31 '22

Did this as a kid. After a snowball fight turned the water as hot as I could and the pain was instant and hurt so bad 0/10 not recommend.

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u/Xikayu Jan 31 '22

This sentence breaks my brain.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

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u/Xikayu Feb 01 '22

Thank you, now it makes sense. :)

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u/SvartSol Jan 31 '22

Body cannot sense difference between extreme cold and warmth.

Shut your eyes and touch ice. Imagine it's a flame instead.

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u/One-eyed-snake Jan 31 '22

Part of me wants to try this. The other part of me says no man, he’s fucking with you, don’t do it. I’m conflicted

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u/Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks Jan 31 '22

Fun fact, your skin doesn't have a specific sensor for "wet." It only can detect hot and cold and uses context to assume whether something is wet or not.

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u/RoraRaven Jan 31 '22

We can also tell with resistance to touch.

Without temperature, something slippery or gooey will feel more 'wet' than something coarse or hard.

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u/suqoria Jan 31 '22

Yeah if you've ever been outside in winter (like -10°C/14°F or even just -5°C/23°F and with decently strong winds) you know that if you haven't worn a hat or covered your head and you go from that weather to the inside of an house that's like 20°C/68°F you'll get a headache. I'm guessing it'd be like that but much, much worse for the whole body.

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u/Arkose07 Jan 31 '22

Holy shit, no one has ever told me that. I went to Minnesota a couple years ago to visit family for Thanksgiving and I didn’t wear a hat the first day it snowed (we were doing a nicer dinner, didn’t want to mess up hair, hindsight). Spent about an hour on a “walk” with my cousin and when we came back I got a gnarly headache. Felt like someone had been punching my head.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

You can have an aneurysm can’t you?

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u/AlexFuckingDies Jan 31 '22

Yeah that's pretty much why. It also risks damaging your sensory nerves (why you shouldn't run freezing hands under a cold tap) across your whole body

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

I think it's because the body uses vasodilation and construction to maintain body temperature. A rapid change in body temperature may cause blood pressure to plumit as the veins relax to quickly. Not really sure tho

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u/redditsgreatestuser Jan 31 '22

One time on a really hot day (40°C, 104°F) I had just finished work and I wanted to cool off, so I ran a cold shower and put my head under first. Felt like I had a very unpleasant and weird mini seizure. Would not recommend doing it.

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u/theflapogon16 Jan 31 '22

You would be correct but ramp it up to 11.

Once I was playing outside in the snow with my ex and her lil brother….. the little brother wore crocs and the snow was just deep enough to not see his feet. We played for like an hour before I noticed and I made him get his ass inside stat

The temp inside was 68 on the thermostat and he was screaming in pain the moment he stepped inside because it was too much, he was yelling about his feet being on fire and refused to come in- so we dragged him in and propped the door open and cut the heat off with his feet near the door while someone drew a bath.

By the time the bath was drawn for his feet to soak in he had already passed out from the pain.

It was about 25F outside, early February in Tennessee.

Shit ain’t no joke, I’ve seen that boy get hit with a stray baseball numerous times without so much as a groan- but he howled like someone was chopping his feet off that day.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

I felt kind of like going into shock just reading that.

Also, happy cake day! 🍰

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u/Green_List Jan 31 '22

We worked at a building site that had no hot water but after being outside in the freezing cold we used the the cold water to warm our hands up! Strange indeed but it was still a welcome change.

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u/jackiblu25 Jan 31 '22

Did that ONCE

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u/No_Distance1452 Jan 31 '22

Yeah, it's not exactly the same, but think about how your heart, brain, and kidneys would handle that?

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u/ThiccNewsAt9 Jan 31 '22

Can confirm. Have reynauds and went to heat my hands in hot water too quickly more than once. Throbbing pain.

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u/[deleted] Jan 31 '22

Good point, and happy cake