vintage-race
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: more safety stuff - underwear

To: vintage-mailing list <vintage-race@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: more safety stuff - underwear
From: "christopher h. kang, md" <chkangmd@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:29:16 -0700
I remember that the list had a prior discussion on water on/in the suit 
to keep cool...the consensus being that the water will "super heat" 
causing it to vaporize and burn the skin. yup, I've seen steam burns 
before and they seem to burn a bigger area than direct heat type burns.
  now, who wants to come up with a really inexpensive body cooling 
apparatus?

christopher

>   Now if you really want to be cool, dampen your
> underwear top lightly with water before puting it on
> and soak the belclava with ice water 





<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>