Experts state that the amount of drinking water should be increased in hot weather. While the amount of water increases, it is necessary to pay attention to the temperature of the drinking water. Extremely cold and extremely hot water can endanger our health. A young man named Adam Schaub shared his body shock in 2018 on his Facebook account. Putting ice water on his face on a hot summer day, Adam stated that he started to feel strange and see spots in the air-conditioned taxi he took.
COLD WATER SHOCKED HIS BODY
“I was extremely nauseous and my hands and feet started to tingle,” the man said. The man opened the door, but before he knew it, he collapsed on his face. He couldn’t come to his senses for several minutes. For this reason, paramedics were called. At the hospital, Adam was told something he thought he would never hear, the cold water shocking his body.
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Adam appears to have had an extreme case of “ice cream head”, GP and clinical director Dr Sarah Jarvis told The Sun. “If you drink something very cold too quickly, the cold in the roof of your mouth stimulates the nerves there. This causes a rapid contraction followed by dilation of the tiny blood vessels in your sinuses.” Said. The brain perceives the messages coming from these nerves as coming from your forehead because the same nerve feeds your forehead. When this happens, you usually feel sudden pain, which can make you feel dizzy. “All the symptoms he describes sound like the onset of a fainting episode, usually caused by a lack of blood in the brain,” the doctor added. Dr Jarvis said it’s not uncommon for people to feel unwell because they drink cold liquids too quickly.
Cold water shock causes blood vessels in the skin to constrict rapidly and a person’s heart rate to increase. The higher the blood pressure, the harder the heart has to work and strain. It can cause cardiac arrest in people of all ages. In some cases, cold water shock can cause suffocation if you are in the water because the sudden cooling of the skin by the water can make people gasp.