Home remedies · Everyday life & travel
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Cross-ventilate at night and early morning, windows shut and shaded from outside during the day. Switch off appliances that give off heat. A damp cloth at the open window helps in dry air.
Shade on the outside stops the heat before the glass; curtains inside let it in first. Night air is the only free supply of cooling.
A fan does not cool the air, it cools the skin by evaporation — above 35 degrees and on dry skin it does little.
For older people, infants and the ill, ventilation is not a plan on its own — drinking, a cool room and regular checking are what count.
Have it assessed: heat with confusion, dry hot skin or clouded consciousness — that is more than exhaustion. A one-sided swollen leg after a long journey. And anything new that does not go away within a few days.