heat is on! Do cooling vests work?
 

I know a lot of threads have been started about cooling vests but here is yet another one.

Do they actually work? Which one is good and where did you get it? Worth the price? Bulky?

The heat is on here and sure would be nice if cooling vests "worked."

I havent tried a cooling vest yet, but I've had good luck so far with wet bandannas wrapped around my wrists (or around the back of my neck)

It's interesting how a wet bandanna wrapped around my wrist makes the rest of my body feel cooler. I dont know why that works sometimes.

I also do well with the cooling bandanas. around the wrist, the neck, and the head work great.

I ordered a vest thru a company, and havent heard if I qualified for help with it yet. Time will tell.

I used to have a cool bandanna. I have no clue where it might have gone.

It is so hot here right now. I drive for 3 hours in a delivery path on Fridays. It is getting more difficult to do.:(

I have no clue which one to consider plus I would love to hear from someone that actually has used it.:(:(

Dej - I know you were the last one to start a thread about the vests.:) I hope you get approved.

my bandannas arent anything special. Just buy them at Hobby Lobby when they're on sale. My dad uses them a lot.

I have a few that I got when I used to go to concerts when I was younger.

Right now, the bandanna that I've been using recently is one that I got at a KISS concert (the Animalize tour probably...)

I have a love/hate relationship with my cooling vest. I love it because it works. I hate it because it looks like a police mans bullet proof vest! But it does work. I wish I had more cooling thingys. It comes with these things that you put in front and in back but I can't sit against anything with them in the back. So I just use the front ones. We have an amusement park close by that doesn't allow coolers in the park unless you have a doctors order to carry something so i do have that. But I can't keep them frozen in there. So they don't last me all day. So i guess some one could say, Joyce you shouldn't go all day. But I want to!

I got it free through the MSAA cooling vest program. Go to their website and they will send you the info so you can get a script form your doctor and you will get a vest and some other cooling products all for free. It says you are only borrowing them but I have had mine for years and they have never asked for them back. They also have some other financial aide programs on their website.

I have a cooling vest, but the only issue I have with it is that mine only works for a couple of hours. When it's done - It heats me up like nothing I've ever seen. :eek: Think the ones that you can refill to keep it cool are better, but haven't had the heart to get another one.

I also find the bandanas, cooling scarves, etc. on the back of the neck work just as well. The hands, feet, and head are good places to start the cooling off process. I've also been known to pop into ladies rooms to run cold water on my hands to help with the overheating. When it gets warm out, I either wear my crocs (they have air holes) or sandles. My feet get way too hot if I wear anything else.

I LOVE my Croc shoes!

Which reminds me....I need new ones.

I love that I can get my Crocs wet and not have to worry about them being soggy and having to dry them before wearing them again. Only problem is that I usually wear socks with my Crocs. On a vacation I went on a few years ago to Sioux Falls, SD, I wore my Crocs...it was a hot weekend, and we went to see the Falls that Sioux Falls is named for, and I ended up sticking my feet in the water at a calm spot to wet my feet down. (took my socks off first) Kept my shoes on. Cooled me off.

I stopped at every water fountain and bought bottled water wherever I could that weekend.

Too bad I was dumb enough to not take any water with me on the walk we took in a quarry in Minnesota that same weekend. (trail was almost two miles long, and it was a really hot weekend. Can you say "heat stroke"?)

I dont think I could do a walk like that now. Maybe I could have two months ago, but after my latest flare, my feet start to drag after about 15 minutes when shopping at WalMart. My feet will go more numb if it's hotter than 78 degrees outside now too.

I'm wondering if there's a way make shoes that you can stick in a freezer that would keep my feet cool when going on a walk. (wonder if I can suggest something to the people who make Crocs?)

I received a Steele cooling vest (with detachable collar) free through the MSAA cooling equipment program. I also got wristbands with frozen inserts that look a little like popsicles. They work really well.

There's also a wheelchair cushion with inserts that you freeze. It's very effective.

--All of these products work well for only a few hours, as others have said. That is a drawback if you're out somewhere and would like to stay cool for longer than that.