The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-10
Your Health
Human Body Has
Equipment For
Heat Control
BY Logan ClendennIng, N. D.
THE HUMAN body as a tenn
perature engineer could give cards
and spades TO the practitioners of
that new profession and still
leave them far behind in eff
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DR.. Clendening will answer
questions of general interest
only, and then only through
his column.
central heating and what / call a
furnace, nature has operating in
the winter, ard its own brand Of
air conditioning apparatus, oper-
ating in the summer. Between
them they keep the old frame at
a level 9S.6 degrees even though
the outside temperature varies as
much as between 20 degrees below
zero and 10 in the shade.
The delicacy of the balance be-
tween heat formation and heat
loss which the body maintains
under these varying conditions is
truly amazing. Even when the
regulation seems to lose control
and you have a fever it is really
a protective mechanism, to COM
bat infection, because the invad-
ing germs do not live we'll at
temperature of 104.
The body can stand low tenn
perature much better than high.
l have seen humans in a freezing
treatment room when the Their
mometer showed a body heat of
80 who revived rapidly after re-
turning 10 normal air. But
continued fever of 108 cannot be
endured by our nervous systems
for long.
Throws OH Heat
In hot weather the body pre-
vents itself from overheating by
throwing off heat-frst by excre-
tons as the urine and feces, sec
ond by the expiration of warm
breath, and third, by evaporation
and radiation and conduction of
the skin. This last is by far the
most important, it being esti-
mated that the body's heat loss
is Ii per cent by evaporation and
73 per cent by radiation and con-
duction from the skin surface. 1t
gets rid Of over 1000 calories q
day in this manner.
Among other newer methods Of
treatment the war has served to
Emphasize the products for pre-
venting heat disorders. Even in
the temperatures prevailing
where troops are stationed IN
tropical areas, the morbidity from
sunstroke and similar conditions
is very low.
The symptoms which are asso-
ciated withsvhat used to be called
sunstroke are now considered TO
be caused by chemical disturb
ances in the blood rather than as
formerly emphasized, disordered
heat regulation. All the symp-
toms Of sunstroke-cramps, coma,
convulsions-can be seen in those
who work in hot occupations in
doors or in mines entirely away
from the sun.
Loss of Salt
They are due in large part to
the excessive loss Of salt from the
body in the Precipitation. Water
is also lost, but it is known that
water replacement alone will not
prevent them. So in good hot wea-
Their you need plenty of salt in
your food. There is also some
disturbance Of sugar nutrition,
not so we'll understood, but tab
let's given to workers in heating
industries to take dissolved in
plenty of water, now contain
sugar as well as salt.
Still another factor is age and
artery hardening. Most Of the
fatal cases of sunstroke in our
cities are in the elderly. They Of
all people should seek a cool spot
for vacation.
The elderly skin also does not
stand sunburn very well. When
ever see one Of these fellows over
fifty years of age who arrive at
a resort and start to get a good
tan in a hurry and still retain sort
of a dirty pallor underneath
suspect the state Of his coronary
arteries. In fact the craze for a
quick suntan is foolish in anybody
but the young brunette. Further
more there is many guy with one
of those sandy compilations who
sits out on a cool and foggy day
and is rewarded only by lot OF
keratatic spots on his hands and
face. Sunburn is not caused by
heat but by ultraviolet rays and
they 20 through clouds. The treat
ment Of injudieious sunburnine
is that of any mild burma sooth-
ing cream, such as butesin picrate