topic Re: Help with staying cool in Wellness

Help with staying cool

mail lady — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:37:35 GMT

Would love some tips on staying cool in the heat. I am a rural mail carrier and for years have driven my own vehicle. Now the postal service is giving the rural RTS the postal trucks that have no air conditioning.

Re: Help with staying cool

ahoymate — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:40:42 GMT

Maybe it's the postal service's way of trying to get U to retire?

Drink plenty of fluids. Bring a thermos with cold water in it. Best to U.

Re: Help with staying cool

susan_ca — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:55:39 GMT

I got the following from HSN for my hiking during the summer months:

327-831 $24.95 with free shipping.

327-776 $29.95 with free shipping:

Re: Help with staying cool

mail lady — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 20:59:25 GMT

Wish I could retire. Thanks for the replys

Re: Help with staying cool

ahoymate — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:10:41 GMT

On 7/15/2014 susan_ca said:
I got the following from HSN for my hiking during the summer months:

327-831 $24.95 with free shipping.

327-776 $29.95 with free shipping:

What exactly is this? You know postal workers do have to wear a uniform?

Re: Help with staying cool

susan_ca — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:19:00 GMT

Wet it and put around the neck. The wristlet, wet it and put on the wrist. The pink, wet it and put on the head under a hat, if a hat or ballcap is worn otherwise wear it wet on its own.

PS: I wear clothes, too.

Re: Help with staying cool

F1wild — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:30:10 GMT

I'm in Phoenix so know about HEAT. Go to www.mycoolingstore.com for lots of ideas. The products you can freeze and put around your neck are great. We use them when attending the ludicrous first few ASU football games, when it's still way over 100F.

I think that website (and lots of other places) carry portable misting fans. The really bring down the temperature.

Re: Help with staying cool

DoneTryin — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 21:32:59 GMT

If you can, wear one of those cold neck wraps. Having the cold next to the arteries in your neck will help cool you down; same as cold wraps around your wrists. They sell them at HSN but I can't remember the name of the product. QVC used to sell something similar called Cool Downz but I don't know if they still do. Or, just carry a couple of bandanas or cotton scarves & some ice water in a thermos so you can soak the bandanas in the cold water, wring out & wrap around neck/wrists (ever see "Thelma & Louise"?)

Re: Help with staying cool

susan_ca — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:02:57 GMT

On 7/15/2014 VCamp2748 said:
If you can, wear one of those cold neck wraps. Having the cold next to the arteries in your neck will help cool you down; same as cold wraps around your wrists. They sell them at HSN but I can't remember the name of the product. QVC used to sell something similar called Cool Downz but I don't know if they still do. Or, just carry a couple of bandanas or cotton scarves & some ice water in a thermos so you can soak the bandanas in the cold water, wring out & wrap around neck/wrists (ever see "Thelma & Louise"?)

This one here is a wristlet that you can turn it inside-out so you have 2 colors in one. The pink wrap is for your neck as well as head which doubles up as head and face for motorcyle riding and hiking on dirt trails.

Re: Help with staying cool

Tinkrbl44 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:12:49 GMT

NO A/C ????

I don't know where you are, but having a vehicle with no A/C in the summer is beyond unacceptable! (Personally, it would be worth it to ME to pay for it myself). This really makes me angry!

However ..... keep a small cooler in your vehicle. Cold sodas, cold towels, whatever makes sense.

Sorry ..... but no A/C is just NOT right .....

Do you HAVE to use their vehicle?

Re: Help with staying cool

Danielle46 — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 22:16:49 GMT

you can buy battery powered fans. What I mean by batteries is regular ""c"" batteries. These fans are used by campers but I bought a few of them in case our power goes out in the middle of the summer from a bad thunder storm. They are medium size and don't have a pedestal - they are square so it can sit on the floor or seat next to you. Of course buying cold packs that people with neck problems use (I have a few of them) that you keep in your freezer is another option. You can put a towel on your neck then put the cold pack on which fits the neck and you can velcro it in place. There are also cold packs that you can put on your wrists. These three areas on the body help keep you cool. I'm sure there are other things I'm not think about. I think giving you trucks with no a/c is a disgrace. Its not healthy being out in the heat all day like that. I feel sorry for you.

Re: Help with staying cool

sfnative — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:14:18 GMT

On 7/15/2014 F1wild said:
I'm in Phoenix so know about HEAT. Go to www.mycoolingstore.com for lots of ideas. The products you can freeze and put around your neck are great. We use them when attending the ludicrous first few ASU football games, when it's still way over 100F.

I think that website (and lots of other places) carry portable misting fans. The really bring down the temperature.

I agree with the things you freeze or soak in water, then place around your neck. I purchased a package of 6 perhaps 8 years ago from the Q and they are great!

Re: Help with staying cool

mail lady — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 23:48:22 GMT

Yes I have to give up my right hand drive jeep that I love and drive that tin can on wheels. Just hope I can get past this heat.

Re: Help with staying cool

chickenbutt — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:51:14 GMT

My husband got me these cooling towel things (made by the same company as the ones Susan showed upthread). They might not hold up for a very long time outside when it's 100 degrees, but they help me out a great deal in the house.

The ones I have are 13" wide by 37" long so I can wrap one around my neck twice. You just get it really wet, with cold water, then wring it out and it says to 'snap' it, then just wrap it around your neck - or wherever. It stays cool for quite a while for me and I generate a LOT of heat.

I am no longer able to tolerate being out in the heat, so I haven't tested them out outside. Just a few minutes in heat that's not even 80 and I fade pretty quickly and get sick, due to an auto-immune challenge.

I'm really getting a lot of mileage out of these! He got them at Lowe's. I would be interested in wrist-size ones, though. I wonder where I can find those. I need all the help I can get with the heat. I hate summer so much!

Re: Help with staying cool

FranandZoe — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 02:06:48 GMT

That's inhumane - can't you file a grievance?

Re: Help with staying cool

Big Sister — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:37:01 GMT

I use the cold neck wraps. I wet them, put them in a plastic baggie and then in the fridge.

Take one out as I need it.

Re: Help with staying cool

ennui1 — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 08:51:08 GMT

On 7/15/2014 Frannie said:
That's inhumane - can't you file a grievance?

Oh, honestly, are you serious? How did the human race survive for CENTURIES without air conditioning?

Re: Help with staying cool

FranandZoe — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 12:38:34 GMT

On 7/16/2014 ennui1 said:
On 7/15/2014 Frannie said:
That's inhumane - can't you file a grievance?

Oh, honestly, are you serious? How did the human race survive for CENTURIES without air conditioning?

How did it survive without a lot of things - electricity for instance. But would you want to go back to doing without it - or them? And yes I'm serious - it sounds like a grieveable issue to me. Riding around all day in the heat in a non-AC'd truck? You bet.

Re: Help with staying cool

151949 — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 14:16:01 GMT

This would be an issue you should take to your union.

Re: Help with staying cool

mail lady — Wed, 16 Jul 2014 18:54:44 GMT

I have checked to see if they could make me switch. And was told I could continue driving my jeep but would have to pay for my own gas. Which would be around $50.00 every two days so I'm stuck Thanks for all the replies they were very helpful