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J Appl Physiol 85: 204-209, 1998;
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Vol. 85, Issue 1, 204-209, July 1998

Human thermoregulatory responses during serial cold-water immersions

John W. Castellani, Andrew J. Young, Michael N. Sawka, and Kent B. Pandolf

Thermal and Mountain Medicine Division, US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Massachusetts 01760-5007

This study examined whether serial cold-water immersions over a 10-h period would lead to fatigue of shivering and vasoconstriction. Eight men were immersed (2 h) in 20°C water three times (0700, 1100, and 1500) in 1 day (Repeat). This trial was compared with single immersions (Control) conducted at the same times of day. Before Repeat exposures at 1100 and 1500, rewarming was employed to standardize initial rectal temperature. The following observations were made in the Repeat relative to the Control trial: 1) rectal temperature was lower and heat debt was higher (P < 0.05) at 1100; 2) metabolic heat production was lower (P < 0.05) at 1100 and 1500; 3) subjects perceived the Repeat trial as warmer at 1100. These data suggest that repeated cold exposures may impair the ability to maintain normal body temperature because of a blunting of metabolic heat production, perhaps reflecting a fatigue mechanism. An alternative explanation is that shivering habituation develops rapidly during serially repeated cold exposures.

habituation; hypothermia; norepinephrine; shivering; vasoconstriction


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