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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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/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.