Winter First Aid
What condition occurs when your body loses heat faster than it can produce it?
What is Hypothermia
What is the purpose of shivering?
what is to produce heat through rapid muscle contractions
Myth or Fact: Going outside with wet hair can make you sick
Myth, viruses cause illness
What type of burn do you get after drinking a hot drink too fast?
This virus is most responsible for winter colds
what is rhinovirus?
Frostbite most commonly affects which body parts?
What are fingers, toes, ears and body parts
which hormone increases when you're in the darkness for long periods of time?
Myth or Fact: You lose most of your heat through your head
Myth
In winter, students often get nosebleeds even if they're not injured. what seasonal factor contributes to this?
what is dry air/low humidity
Which part of the brain controls thermoregulation?
what is the hypothalamus
This type of burn can occur from touching extremely cold metal with bare skin
What is a cold burn/freeze burn
What muscles do you use the most when shivering?
What are skeletal muscles
Myth or Fact: Drinking alcohol warms your body up in the cold
Myth. It makes you lose heat faster
what is it called when you lose feeling in your fingers but do not have frostbite
what is frostnip
The medical term for your body narrowing blood vessels to preserve heat
what is vasoconstriction
What is the FIRST step in treating mild hypothermia?
What is move there person to warmth/ remove wet clothing?
Why do people feel "winter depression"?
what is decreased serotonin levels
Myth or Fact: Hypothermia is especially dangerous to young people
Fact. (They lose heat faster due to a larger surface area to body mass ratio)
a student slips on ice, hits their head, feels fine at first but becomes confused 20 minutes after. what medical concern should we suspect?
what is a concussion
What common winter illness is caused by a virus, not bacteria, even though many people take antibiotics for it?
what is the flu/common cold
In severe frostbite why should you never rub the affected area?
It can cause tissue damage/worsen injury
What is the body's largest source of heat production at rest?
what is the metabolism
Myth or Fact: You can get frostbite in above-freezing temps
Fact
during heavy snow shoveling, an older adult suddenly feels chest pain and shortness of breath (the cold makes the heart work harder). What dangerous condition should you be concerned about?
what is a heart attack
when you get frostbite, what is actually happening to your tissues?
what is they freeze