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(Continued from Page 1) while packing the wood stove full, the recent Arctic weather presents other health dangers.
Many of Rappahannock's older homes are poorly insulated and healed bv wood alone, an nergy source that is often inadequate when high winds blow frigid air through cracks and crevices. As the temperatures decrease, the danger of hypothermia increases, according to Dr. Jerry Martin from the Rappahannock Medical Center.
Hypothermia occurs when the core temperature of the body—normally between 97.6 and degrees—drops. "It's much more of a danger to older people who don't tolerate temperature extremes as well as do middle aged or young persons." Martin said.
Farly symptoms are shivering, muscle weakness and loss of coordination, followed by mental confusion and irregularities in heart beat, the doctor said. "If the body's core temperature drops too low. lethargy changes first to stupor and then to outright coma." Martin added. Anyone suspected of suffering from the onset of hypothermia should be dressed in warm, dry clothes, moved close to a heat source and encouraged to drink hot
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