Cold Feet...

Factual Questions
1

I always seem to end up with cold feet when I am at my computer for any amount of time.

I where my slippers.
They are fuzzy on the inside.
They keep my feet nice and warm.
Then my feet start to sweat.
Then they get cold.
Then I remove my feet from slippers to let them air out.
Then they get REALLY cold
Then they dry out.
Then I put them back in my slippers.
They keep my feet nice and warm.
Then my feet start to sweat.

I think you can see where this is going.
Is there any way to stop this vicious cycle, or am I doomed to a life of cold feet?

2

How about wearing heavy socks?

3

Wear a hat (a warm hat).

I’m not kidding.

Your body loses most of its heat (80%?) through the head. When you start to freeze to death your body responds by shutting off blood flow to your extremities. The idea behind this is that your body keeps warmth where it is most important, your chest and head. If you keep your head warm your body won’t lose as much heat and won’t consider itself as freezing to death and will send warm blood back to your extremities.

I was skiing once and was not wearing a hat (it was ‘cooler’ to be hatless). While waiting in a lift-line I was complaining to my friend how cold my toes were. A woman standing behind me told me to put on my hat. I told her she didn’t hear me right…my toes were cold. She said she heard me just fine and to put my hat on. I did and sure enough my toes were nice and cozy 30 minutes later.

I have also heard that running warm water over your wrists (where there are a lot of blood vessles near the surface) will help warm you up but this can be a hassle.

4

An interesting extension to Whack-a-Mole’s excellent information: If you had a really good hat, you could ski naked! (use Chapstick to protect…ahem…sensitive areas) :smiley:

5

Alternate footwear.

I used to have this problem. I now wear sandals :wink: they keep the soles of my feet warm so my toes don’t get cold. and my feet can still breathe.

This is if you don’t want to wear a. socks or b. hats in the house.

6

Happens to me all the time, even though I always wear socks and shoes. Starts with my toes, then my fingers, then my nose and ears. The only way to prevent this was to put a portable heater near the computer.

7

whack-a-mole’s right. Wear a hat. hat. hat. hat. I like saying hat.

8

But how do I stop cold feet in bed?

Which looks dorkier: wearing socks in bed, or showing up in a sleeping cap?

9

wear socks to bed…

but now we’ve hit on why sleeping caps were so popular way back when.

10

Yup. Wear a hat.

We used to live in a house where the landlord woefully mismanaged the heat (long story.) The indoor temperature was often in the 50s. We wore hats to bed. We may have looked dorky, but we were warm.