• Question: Have you ever had hyperthermia and if you did would you have used some of your own equipment?

    Asked by Sarah007 to Laura, Ted, S. S., Kevin, Ellen, Andrea on 5 Mar 2019. This question was also asked by Jessica109.
    • Photo: Laura Farina

      Laura Farina answered on 5 Mar 2019:

      My equipment causes hyperthermia to cure other things 🙂
      But we all actually had a kind of hyperthermia: the fiver!!

    • Photo: Ellen Simmons

      Ellen Simmons answered on 6 Mar 2019:

      As Laura said, we probably all get fevers at some point! But these are good for you, as it is your body trying to heat up and kill the bacteria/viruses that are causing you problems.

      Some women get very hot when they going through menopause, and my company created a cooling system to put on your wrists that really helps alleviate these hot flushes.

    • Photo: Ted Burke

      Ted Burke answered on 9 Mar 2019:

      I get a fever occasionally, but thankfully not very often. I haven’t ever worked on technology related to that myself, but other engineers in the lab where I used to work were developing a cooling system for people who were missing some of their limbs. A problem which people often don’t think of for people who are missing arms or legs is that their body has a lot less surface area, which means it can be harder for the body to expel heat into its surroundings. As a result, the body can sometimes overheat.

    • Photo: Andrea Pacheco

      Andrea Pacheco answered on 11 Mar 2019:

      I just have had fever when I was a child and usually my mother helped to lower the temperature with a wet towel in my forehead and stomach. If I had fever today I might follow my mom’s advice since my equipment has different intended use.

    • Photo: Kevin OBrien

      Kevin OBrien answered on 12 Mar 2019:

      In January I had a dose of flu, which came with phases of fever followed by chills.
      It wasn’t very nice, but I recovered fairly quickly. The fever obviously had the desired effect of killing the virus.

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