How to properly insulate yourself during the cold season to avoid colds

Due to hypothermia, more than two-thirds of diseases of the respiratory tract, urinary and reproductive systems begin, writes Yellmed.ru.

Legs

The feet are located farthest from the center of the body, so they freeze first, especially with thin shoe soles. The worse the peripheral circulation, the faster they become numb. Excessive sweating and puddles that make your feet wet will not improve the situation.

Hypothermia of the legs can provoke diseases of the ENT organs, cystitis, pyelonephritis and even myocarditis.

• Footwear. Choose warm shoes made from natural materials with thick soles. Take boots or boots one size larger so that your legs do not squeeze with additional insulation, otherwise, due to circulatory disorders, the entire effect of insulation will be reduced to zero.
• Insoles. Felt insoles do not protect well in cold weather; it is better to use fur or warmed woolen insoles. For particularly severe frosts, you can buy insoles with an aluminum backing.
• Socks. The best socks are made from natural materials, with loose shoes they can even be fur. If you plan to spend all day outside, try replacing your socks with fleece, wool, or bike footcloths, which is how many janitors and road patrol workers protect themselves from the cold. Just learn how to wind them in advance!

Arms

Hands freeze after the feet. The consequences are not as dangerous as with hypothermia of the legs, but also unpleasant: dermatitis, inflammation of the joints of the fingers.

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The most ineffective protection option is cotton gloves. Do not protect from wind, do not allow fingers to warm each other. If you don't like mittens - buy leather gloves with fur, they will solve two problems in moderately cold weather. But for severe frosts, still find leather fur mittens.

Neck

An open neck is not only dangerous, but also very unpleasant, since a feeling of hypothermia is created even with good insulation of other parts of the body.

The consequence of a frozen neck is myositis, exacerbation of radiculitis and throat disease.

The choice of scarves is huge: snoods, baktus, skaichi. Choose according to your taste, if only the scarf is warm and reliably covers the neck. And it is advisable to choose outerwear with a high collar with fasteners. It doesn't matter where the scarf will be - under the clothes or on top. You can additionally insulate yourself by buttoning the collar.

Head and face

From the cold, the nutrition of the hair follicles worsens, the hair falls off. Headaches, trigeminal inflammation and even meningitis may appear. When the ears freeze, not only otitis media occurs, but also sinusitis. Spider veins can form on a frozen face.

Choose a hat that reliably covers not only the scalp, but also the ears and the forehead. Give preference to outerwear with a hood - you can even wear an ordinary knitted hat with it, and quickly warm up when discomfort appears.

For outdoor work and sports, purchase a balaclava. For the city, since the coronavirus forced them to wear masks, buy a warmed version of this accessory, for example, made of fleece.

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Chest and loin

With a frozen upper body, bronchitis, myositis, intercostal neuralgia, and even pneumonia can be expected. Hypothermia of the lower half of the body in men turns into prostatitis, in women - inflammation of the ovaries, cystitis.

The problem of protecting the body from the cold is solved thanks to thermal underwear, fur and knitted vests.

The most comfortable and practical outerwear is a down jacket that completely covers the buttocks.

It should contain at least 75% down, preferably goose or duck down. The pen content, respectively, should not exceed 25%.

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