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I recently had infected lungs. These were greatly
relieved by lying with a hot water bottle on my chest
area. This was excellent until moving around was needed
and the hot water bottle had no physical support.
Hot Water Bottle Waistcoat solves this problem.
It's a simple garment consisting
of a basic waistcoat with
a system of built-in connected hot water bottles, front
and back.
This means that the lungs are surrounded by the
continuous heat provided by the hot water even when
walking around. A reinforced bottle enables the wearer
to lie down on their back with no danger of the rear
bottle leaking or bursting when subject to the additional
pressure.
Deluxe version features a variable vibrator to deliver a
simultaneous massage, using the hot water as a medium.
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There are battery-powered heated jackets, but mostly they
don't have the coils up where you want them (quick search:
some do). They last a reasonable time per charge, too. |
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It gets COLD in these parts. [+] |
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[+] Let's hope it's sorted out soon enough |
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I never seem to need heat. People buy me sweaters, I think
because they see me not wearing them, and assume I can't
afford them or something. Then I wear one, on a cold day. I
think "this does work!" then I walk into any building and I'm
like "get this thing off me, stuff it into the filing cabinet
with the others and let's get on with life". |
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The key, is NOT layering. You need the clothes that can
cope with -5C(23F) to 40C (104F) i.e. t shirt and jeans. You
will be fine in any building, any outdoor environment for
under an hour or so. Layering is just asking for laundry.
What you need is t-shirt and jeans, and a big ski jacket for
the more relentlessly arctic blasts. The real world is
essentially divided into 2 temperature zones: the perfectly
acceptable (though usually too hot) and the unacceptable.
Layers make what is a binary decision into a weirdly
granular one. |
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I understand why lying down would help as phlegm and water would cover less surface lung area, same as pneumonia.
I do not understand how heat helps. |
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How does heat help?
Not being an asshole I swear, I'm just curious how heat helps the scenario. |
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As a scientist, dunno. Just does sometimes. Cold too. |
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//As a scientist, dunno. Just does sometimes. Cold too.// |
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That's something which should have been figured out a long time ago. |
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Placebo effect?
Swaddled and warmed so... endorphins? |
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Nobody has bothered to finance a study?
That's lame. |
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The effect of a hot water bottle for me was almost
instant. I could breathe again with comparative
ease when previously I was wheezing like someone
with a serious asthma attack. Infected mucous is
like glue. I think the heat decreases its viscosity
and therefore loosens it. All I can report on is my
experience. |
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Cold air and dry air can make asthma worse, I think directly through the autoimmune mechanism. |
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There's also no working theory on how changing weather
makes previously broken bones hurt. I was skeptical of the
concept, but having a fair few bones bolted back together
in the last few years it's definitely a thing. Some say it's the
changing pressure? Really? I'm not buying that. Climb out
on an aircraft is a WAY bigger change than a low pressure
system moving in. Temperature? Nah, the bones are buried
deep inside a homeothermic organism. Besides, searching
around in a -80°C chest freezer would be way worse. Is
there anything else left? Apart from psychology? |
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It's been shown that listening to a 111 Hz tone produces endorphins, so
perhaps vibrating your water jacket thingy at that frequency will make the
wearer feel more betterer. |
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Have you climbed out onto the wing of a flying aircraft with a broken bone? |
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I didn't know aircraft had bones |
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//Some say it's the changing pressure? Really? I'm not buying that. Climb out on an aircraft is a WAY bigger change than a low pressure system moving in. Temperature? Nah,// |
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Aircraft are pressure controlled.
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I slipped off of the side of a flat bed semi in my teens at thitry-some degrees below below zero with a diesel nozzle in my hand which chipped a bit of kneecap off of one knee. I couldn't feel it at first. I was too numb and shock works wonders.
Before we made it back to town I was writhing in pain and... |
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...well now it senses pressure change about twenty minutes before that change occurs, makes me writhe in pain again and... I rely on it as one of my senses. |
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Hasn't been wrong since the injury and that was several decades ago. |
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At the start of the pandemic, I was taking 2 hour, steaming hot showers, to "clean" my lungs. Never considered that they could be baked from the outside... |
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I have a small inflatable hot tub that I use for my
arthritis. Just getting in the heat for 10 minutes
makes your whole body feel better! |
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Yes, to 10,000ft equivalent, slightly better for the newer
composite aircraft like the Boeing 787 Binliner and the
Airbus A350. So unless you're climbing out of LaPaz, you will
lose pressure climbing from sea level (100kPa to about
70kPa at 10,000ft). |
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This is quite a lot bigger swing in a couple of minutes than
you get with weather. The eye of Typhoon Tip got to
870mBar (roughly 87kPa). So it's more extreme in terms of
pressure change than moving into the eye of that typhoon
over 1-5 mins. Ski lifts, tall building & mine elevators also
offer more rapid changes in pressure than storms can. As
can moving around buildings where the HVAC isn't balanced. |
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We know that we CAN sense the pressure change in aircraft
climb out/descent, your ears pop several times, and if you
have a head cold or a problem with a filling, you can be in
real pain. So for that reason, I think we have to reject
simple weather-induced pressure changes. |
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// a variable vibrator to deliver a simultaneous massage |
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Maybe a bubbler inside the water bottle? |
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