Sentences with phrase «lose body heat»

You lose body heat all the time and use themogenic reactions to maintain it in a reasonable range.
Small dogs in particular can lose body heat quickly, so you may need to put some outerwear on your dog for an extra protective layer.
Smaller dogs can easily lose body heat and can also benefit from a heated dog bed.
Small animals lose body heat quickly, especially under anesthesia.
They can become cold quickly as they lose body heat from the large portions of their body that is exposed to the weather such as their feet and face.
Surgery patients lose body heat through anesthesia and the opening of body cavities.
Reindeer noses are extremely vascular, which causes them to lose body heat through their noses.
Children lose body heat more rapidly than adults.
Babies lose body heat faster than adults because they have a greater body surface, according to the University of Rochester Medical Center.
Premature brain and little body fat makes it difficult for the baby to retain heat, so preterm babies lose body heat more rapidly than a full - term baby.
First things first, though — the baby should be gently rubbed dry with warmed towels so he doesn't lose body heat.
Newborn babies (and children in general) are prone to getting cold during the night, as they lose body heat much quicker than adults — especially wearing cotton baby clothes, as it is so breathable.
Once you decide to give your baby a bath, remember that they will lose their body heat quickly, so it is important to make the bathing experience a fast one.
They are therefore prone to losing body heat when you take them out of the bath water; therefore wrap them in a hooded towel immediately and pat them dry before diapering them.
One recent strategy is to create materials that are transparent to infrared radiation (IR) produced by the body — which accounts for between 40 % and 60 % of lost body heat — thereby allowing it to pass through to the outside air.
These beds reflect lost body heat back onto your pet, keeping them toasty warm.

Not exact matches

Hypothermia occurs when our body loses heat faster than we can produce it.
When the relative humidity is high, sweat drips off the skin so that the cooling benefit of evaporation is lost even at cooler temperatures, resulting in a build - up of body heat.
We recommend not heating breastmilk above body temperature (37 °C / 98.6 °F) as it can lose its nutritive value.
Newborns aren't able to adjust their body temperature very well, this step of keeping them warm is important so they don't lose too much heat and have to use energy to keep themselves warm.
If the warmer heat the milk over body temp (40 °C +) then you milk will begin to lose essential nutrients.
«The Birth Story Part 11: The First Days After After a while of holding her, I could tell she was losing more body heat and it started to be awkward holding a baby that was getting colder and colder.»
Newborns lose most of their body heat through their heads, which is exactly why they are commonly seen wearing hats.
Most body heat is lost through the skin, so overdressing or bundling your child may result in a higher fever and can make your child more uncomfortable.
Merino creates a micro-climate around your baby's body, gaining or losing heat as required to produce warmth in cool conditions and enhance cooling effects in warm conditions.
Wearing these thermal shorts helps heat up your body which helps you lose weight 4x faster AND reduces cellulite!
For instance, newborns lose heat easily, and preemies in particular have trouble regulating their body temperature, as they lack the energy or fat reserves to generate heat and the body mass to maintain it.
Body heat may be lost through their hands and feet, so cover them during cold days, especially when going out of the house.
Do not ignore shivering as it is an important first sign that the body is losing heat.
We can guess that this coat was lost by the time of Homo erectus, as its skeleton's proportions show that it was adapting to heat stress like modern humans do, and part of our adaptation involves an enhanced sweat gland cooling system which would not function well with a full coat of body hair.
Early horses, for example the now - extinct Hyracotherium (shown on the right next to a modern horse on the left), shrunk by about 30 %, presumably to increase the ratio of skin area to body volume, and thus lose heat more easily.
This hints that the cold - blooded fish are using their postdive respites to regain body heat lost while swimming in the frigid deep.
They served primarily to protect the smaller predatory dinosaurs — which would eventually give rise to birds — from losing too much body heat.
However, the rest of them was outfitted in gear designed to protect against the cold, so it's logical that they lost most of their body heat from their heads,» she says.
If your body loses too many electrolytes through the secretion of sweat, the end result could be kidney damage, heart stroke or heat exhaustion, all of which have fatal consequences.
When your body loses its ability to self - regulate, you run the risk of developing a heat illness, one of the biggest summer health hazards.
Putting them in front of a fan, manual or electric, can also help them lose some of their excess body heat.
These are closely linked with heat illness, since the body needs water (and electrolytes like sodium) to properly regulate its temperature, but it also loses them through sweat.
In a study by Saat et al., eight healthy male volunteers exercised at 60 % of VO2max in the heat until 2.78 + / - 0.06 % of their body weight (BW) was lost.
If the gym is real cold wearing a tuque / skullcap / wollen hat helps, since roughly of your 10 % body heat is lost through the head.
Brown fat produces heat by burning calories (300 times more heat than any organ in the body), and this boosts your metabolism all day long to help you lose weight.
Research has shown that Green Tea extract increases the body's thermogenesis, the generation of body heat, which in turn burns the calories and fat needed to lose weight.
As you lose heat through your hands and feet, your skin temperature increases and your core body temperature decreases.
As the infrared energy heats the body, it sweats, and loses water and minerals along with the toxins expelled.
As you lose weight, the REE goes down (less body mass to heat, less energy needed) so you need to adjust the REE for Fat Free Mass (FFM) and Fat Mass (FM).
On the other hand, swimming for an hour or two in cool lap - lane temperature water is an incredible way of losing weight because not only are you burning calories to swim (perform work) but you are burning calories to keep your body warm enough (generating heat).
When you sweat heavily, due to heat exposure, physical activity, or a combination of the two, your body loses water and the electrolytes it carries.
Humidity is a stressor to the body, as it makes it more difficult to lose heat through sweat.
Myth: You lose most of your body heat through your head This oft - repeated factoid probably originated with an old military study in which scientists put subjects in Arctic survival suits (but no hats) in extremely cold temperatures, and found that they did indeed lose a great deal of heat through their heads.
However, experts say that had this experiment been performed with subjects wearing swimsuits, they would have lost heat evenly across all exposed body surfaces — and no more than 10 % from the head specifically.
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