How do you cope with the heat/high temperatures?

[noname223]

I drink a lot of water. Like 5 liters a day or more. But this is for me also a coping mechanism to deal with extreme pressure and anxiety. Kind of a weird way I know. But it also helps against the heat.
I have read even in Great Britain there is like 40 degree. Climate change will increase this problem. I open my window often with the hope to decrease the temperature in my room. Also over night.
I don't do sports. But I also don't do it when it is cold. I am so lazy concerning this. This could backfire one day.
I take a bath more often. The cold water is refreshing.

Do you have some creative ideas?

 

[FuneralCry]

The heat has been really bad where I live, in England. Luckily, it is not as warm anymore. Whenever the weather is like that I just have no choice but to suffer through it and then eventually the temperatures will go down. When it was so bad, it just made me want to die even more. I wonder how many people ctb in the heat. Opening windows just meant that I heard noises from outside. It must be really horrible for those who live in hot countries all year round. The heat is the worst kind of weather in my opinion.

 

[NumbItAll]

We use A/C in America, which ironically contributes to emissions and worsens the problem long-term. It is great but also another example of how my seemingly innocent existence is still harmful by accident. I just learned and was shocked to find out that A/C usage is uncommon in Europe. I would never be able to cope with the extreme heat. Humans are such a pathetic species, requiring a very specific range of temperatures to feel comfortable.

As far as ideas, I highly recommend using cooling towels. You just soak one, wring it out, and wear it around your neck or wherever. I started using them outdoors this summer and it helps a lot.

 

[waitingforrest]

Linen and cotton everything. Wearing only white and drawing the curtains on windows to block out unnecessary sunlight. Staying in the basement if possible. And if possible, plants to cool the air. Yes even a patch of grass will work if you are a serial plant killer.

For cooling off quickly, splashing cool water on cotton clothes with wind helps.

 

[veryhappyhuman]

I cut down two mealtimes to just once a day, and even that meal is like half of my usual. I usually feel hot after eating (heat from metabolism?) so I think this erally helps, I used to sweat buckets but now there's barely any.

Probably a bit drastic as a cooling measure, but hey if it works it works lol.

 

[Ethereal Knight]

I live in Brazil and don't have money for air conditioning.

Summer forces me to stop taking amitriptyline (my medication), because amitryl increases the sweating and the hot feeling in the skin. For this reason, I'll probably replace this drug as soon as I get an appoitment, before the summer comes here in the southern hemisphere.

Summer also increases my suicidality. It makes me sleep poorly. I couldn't find a way to cope. Sleeping naked was not enough and opening the window would also mean sleeping poorly, but for another reason, the noise that comes from outside.

 

[rationaltake]

We use A/C in America, which ironically contributes to emissions and worsens the problem long-term. It is great but also another example of how my seemingly innocent existence is still harmful by accident. I just learned and was shocked to find out that A/C usage is uncommon in Europe. I would never be able to cope with the extreme heat. Humans are such a pathetic species, requiring a very specific range of temperatures to feel comfortable.

As far as ideas, I highly recommend using cooling towels. You just soak one, wring it out, and wear it around your neck or wherever. I started using them outdoors this summer and it helps a lot.

I have no A/C. I now keep the blinds shut all the time due to misery! But during the recent heatwave I kept the windows closed all day because the temperature outside was hotter than inside. I opened the windows at night when it was cooler outside than inside. This was a seemingly inane "hack" in a "news" article but I found it really works.

 

[Insomniac]

The temperature in my country is 35- 42°C most of the year.

I was listening to the news yesterday's and they said that first world countries will implement a law that basically says that 28°C should be the max temp at work and that made me smile because wow. First worlders don't joke with comfort.

Anyway I think my body has just adapted because I can deal with it but as long as it doesn't go past 42°C. Then it starts to really affect me.

Drink a lot of water and get a fan. I have AC but if you don't have AC, you can still freeze a bottle of water and sleep with it or something (if the heat prevents you from sleeping).

If you don't have a freezer, stay outside under a tree and drink a lot of water.

If you don't have water, be a camel.

 

[Molded foundation]

I experience extreme heat half of the year (40+ C).

I'd say drink water and stay away from the sun during its peak. Night, I would say have a fan or leave a window open if there's no a/c.

Living by a river would also help mitigate the effects of heat.

 

[Insomniac]

I experience extreme heat half of the year (40+ C).

Hot countries should sleep during the day and live at night and use solar panels to stock energy from the sun to have light at night.

Honestly. The sun gets so lethal between 11am-16pm that I don't understand how human would chose to live in places like this

 

[JinZhin]

Wearing wet shirt
Saved me many times

 

[Insomniac]

Wearing wet shirt
Saved me many times

but it's bad because if you're laying on your bed, you could end up creating mold over time. And any other kind of furniture (even wood).

However, I 100% recommend wetting yourself completely if you're going to go outside between 11 and 16pm if you're from hell too.

I'd jump into the pool fully dressed and be completely dry a few minutes later lmfao. Sad.

 

[KQuotientW]

I live in the Australian bush. I don't have A/C because I live off grid and my solar power system isn't enough to run a big machine / appliance. Fuel is too expensive to run a generator.

In Summer, where I live, it can get into high temps. I sit in kids' paddling pool (shell shaped pool) on a shady porch with a breeze blowing. If there's no little pool and shady, breezy porch option, I'll wear a damp tshirt and open windows to let the breeze go through the house, but shut doors to rooms I'm not using, particularly where the sun is on that side of the house (west, afternoon sun).

When you have A/C, many close up the whole house to keep warm air from coming inside. When you don't have A/C, you want movement of air and a damp shirt. The breeze lowers the temp a bit. It's what they did in the olden days. I usually prefer the shady, breezy porch, but if it's not possible, I'll sit inside with a damp shirt and open exterior doors and windows. Of course, if you're in an unsafe neighbourhood, lock the screen door, which still lets the breeze in but not criminals. If there's no breeze, I'm in the paddling pool in the shade.

Of course, keep up your fluids and drink water. Sweat is our body's natural, evaporative cooling system. However, sweating means we're losing fluid.

 

[kappa]

I had to get a portable a/c unit. I spent 2 summers absolutely miserable from the heat. Would skip dinners because it was too hot to cook, after work I would just lay down because it was too hot to function.

If you can afford it I recommend it, it's a life changer.

Before I would tack up blankets or towels over windows. Usually I would check weather apps and open windows when it started to drop temps, and leave windows open at night. (Not the most fun if your on the first floor, ended up buying window locks so it couldn't be opened farther.)

Have you seen those dual window fans that you insert in your window? My apartment is an oven so I had one window open at all times with the little fan in it, did help some. Put window locks around it so I could leave it open while I wasn't home.

Getting more fans gives you the illusion of being more cool.

But honestly portable A/C is the best. Tacking up blankets over windows to keep sunlight out is pretty depressing. I hate the heat but when it's sunny out I feel better.