WINTER SURVIVAL

HYOPTHERMIA

HYPOTHERMIA

• Hypothermia occurs when body temperature is below 35 degrees.
• You can get hypothermia with exposure to temperatures under 10 degrees for long periods of time.
• If you are in water under 20 degrees for a long time you will also have a chance of getting hypothermia.
• If your body temperature is under 32 degrees it is life threatening.

HYPOTHERMIA

• symptoms might be uncontrollable shivering, fumbling hands, unsteady gait, slurred speech, confusion and drowsiness
• If you have slowing of heart rate and breathing, wide open pupils or you fall into a coma you have severe hypothermia.
• People over 75 years old and young babies and children are in higher risk of hypothermia.
• If you are wet from any cause, you will get hypothermia much faster.

HYPOTHERMIA

• If you have hypothermia remove all wet clothing, warm core with blankets and drink warm drinks.
• Stay still and don't move around
• Do not message the person with hypothermia
• Call 911 for help

HYPOTHERMIA 5 WAYS YOUR BODY LOSES HEAT

• Radiation - wearing warm clothes and a hat helps keeps heat in your body
• Conduction - Protect yourself from cold surfaces that will lower you body temperature
• Convection - wind proof clothing to protect you from windchill
• Evaporation - stay dry and avoid sweating so that moisture does not cool your body temperature

HYPOTHERMIA 5 WAYS YOUR BODY LOSES HEAT

• Respiration - putting a light covering over your face and your mouth will help warm the air that you are breathing

FIRE BUILDING

FIRE BUILDING

• Find a good dry spot to build a fire that is protected from the wind
• Collect lost of dry tinder and kindling.
• Build up with small pieces of wood and then put larger peices on top once it gets going
• Ignite the fire using dry matches or a lighter
• Give fire oxygen, blow or fan air on to it to keep it ventilated.

FIRE BUILDING BENEFITS

• Keeps you warm and dry
• Allows you to cook food
• Melt snow to make water to drink
• Scares away animals
• Smoke is a signal for help

SHELTER BUILDING

SHELTER BUILDING

• Snow shelters gets you below snow and out of the wind
• Snow keeps you insulated from the cold
• Dig a trench big enough to fit in
• Use a backpack to cover the door

SHELTER BUILDING

• Fallen tree shelters are shelters that provide cover from wind and snow
• Find a fallen tree and lay leafy branches over top
• Dig out snow from underneath is and line the floor with branches

SHELTER BUILDING

• Bush shelters are shelters held up by stick and branches to create a frame
• Many leaves and smaller branches are put on top as a roof
• Make sure you are making your shelter in a dry spot, if you lay in snow you will lose heat

HYDRATION

HYDRATION

• Staying hydrated protects you from hypothermia, frostbite and dehydration
• If you don't have any water you would have to melt snow over a fire
• If you are dehydrated, you will not be able to build a shelter, gather wood or search for food because you need water to be active.
• Water from streams or lakes have bacteria in them that can make you sick
• You must boill your water before drinking

HYDRATION

• Our body loses water by sweating breathing in cold air and urinating
• Do not wait until you feel thirsty to drink
• You can only survive 3 days without water