What Are The Dangers Of Sleeping With An Electric Blanket?
November 25, 2009 by admin
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I sleep with an electric blanket on the highest setting every night in winter. I want to know if doing this is damaging my health
(And I don’t have very much body warmth either so I use 3 thick wool blankets and an electric blanket)
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If you wear any sort of medicated patch like one of these:
Orthoevra (birth control)
Fentanyl (pain)
Nicotine
the excess heat changes the rate at which the medication is absorbed into the skin. Many people have died from wearing a duragesic patch like fentanyl and using an electric blanket. The people overdose on the medication during their sleep and die.
Aside from that issue, I am not aware of any other complications from using a heating blanket aside from the fact that may be a fire hazard.
While I have not heard of electric blankets being harmful, except for the inherent shock or fire hazard, there have been concerns about high voltage transmission wires having an effect on people with its electromagnetism. The heater wires in the blanket operate at much lesser voltage that the high tension lines, but, they are so much closer. Something to consider…..
First off the body has its own built-in thermostat and an electric blanket, may, or may not, interfere with the body’s normal functioning. Yet as the body also has it’s own Electrical-Magnetic-Field it’s possible that an electric blanket could interfere with normal body functions.
electric blanket? …didnt know they made those… sounds more like a torture device… “Self-heating blanket” that makes more sense
umm… well you do know if there were any risks, the company that makes the blanket would have to tell you right? that is, if those risks were even significant enough to get past all the unions in the first place… (FCC, surgeon general, whathaveyou…) i wouldnt worry about it…
don’t use it if your sleeping in water… or if ur camping in a tent. (dew.) then again, in that last situation, where the hell would you plug it in?
oh and by the way… you have low body heat because of that blanket. yeah. your bodys used to not having to heat itself.
1. whats wrong with normal blankets? im sure your running up the electric bill.
2. and depending on how hot the blanket gets it can get bad for you. I know you can get bloody noses from it. sleep in 68-74 degrees.
I have read that it evaporates water. Doctors tell seniors not to use electric blankets because of this. They can become dehydrated.
You need to get a check up from a doctor. Be sure to tell her/him that you are unusually cold.
well if there is a storm outside, and it is atached to an outlet then you might get electrocuted. they make those so they cant seriously harm you though. i suggest sleeping with extra clothes or just turning the heater on?
You should always turn your electric blanket off upon getting into bed. If you should accidentally twist or crumple the electric blanket, you could start a fire which could kill you.
if it gets wet it can shock you
you will be use to the warmth so dont lay on it have it over you or else it can get a short and hurt you
WE DONT WANT THAT!
it could start on fire, you could dehydrate yourself, if it got extremely hot, it could cause a heat stroke, but that would have to be extreme
well, if you’re a guy there are many dangers, but normally electric blankets are safe unless water is spilled or there are damaged wires
It would be very dangerous to sleep with your electric blanket in a bathtub, for sure.
one time an electric blanket burned my skin because i put the setting too high and went to sleep on it, not a good idea in my opinion.
You will adapt a dependence for heat. You will also feel VERY cold in the morning.
The danger is that it can overheat under your body weight and ignite.
I also sleep with mine on max.
read the book things not seen, its fiction but the kid slept with an electic blanket and turned invisible…. maybe use it on the lowest setting
umm well the blanket can get really hot and over heat possbly burn u iv never actually heard of a hazard cause my ex boyfriend did the same thing just not on the highest setting
Electrocution…??:S
youre probably doing more damage to yourself worrying about it
2 or three comforters should do the trick
immolation?
FIRE
YOU WILL DIE
you will be very hot.
well i suppose in some cases it can electrocute you
i don’t know
death
yeah I guess it poses a threat if you were on a water bed
i can make a fire, or it can burn you
uhhh. shock?
an unnatural need to be a contender in Answers? That being your only heat source???