Tips for sleeping in hot weather

Summer comes and with it days of excessive heat and worse, around Summer comes and with it days of excessive heat and worse, around and around in bed unable to sleep. This is one of the most repeated scenes in summer when the heat is merciless and wink is impossible unless we have an air conditioner.

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Fortunately, there are ways to get cool and stay cooler, at least to reconcile these much needed sleep after a long day. Today we bring you some homemade tricks to sleep when it's hot.

And it is that a poor quality of sleep can influence us and cause changes in our mood and our irritability, may affect our ability to achieve and focus on our job performance.

For all these reasons, today we bring these super simple tricks to keep in mind to get it. No it will cost nothing to implement them and your body will thank you.

Keep the heat out of your room

Air conditioning is the great solution to keep a perfect and desired temperature in the house, but not everyone has the good fortune to count on it. Do not worry, you can have your own tricks to get it.

If we have a fan at home, a good idea is to turn toward the window, which is where the hot air seeps in addition to a greater effect can be placed in front of the fan a bowl with ice or ice water to make it even more effective.

On days that are extremely hot, you should wet a wet sheet and hang "like a curtain" on the inside of the window. Thus, we will prevent some of the heat that seeps through it, do not access the interior, and even if we closed the window and shutter, much of the heat gets going and what we want to try to keep the room cool.

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Taking a warm shower before bedtime

Contrary to popular belief, the cold shower is not the solution. A good tip is to take that shower, but not cold, but with warm water.

According holds the Biological Institute of Health, "the cold water generates a recovery of the body and increases energy expenditure, it takes you to feel more heat than if it were a warm shower."


Take a light, fresh dinner

The best choice for dinner before sleep is light and fresh. Heavier and hot meals force your body to generate more heat to digest. It is ideal to take salads, gazpacho or yogurt.

It is also a good choice to incorporate foods like rice in our salads. Rice contains melatonin, a hormone the body uses sleep-inducing and it can be an extra hour of sleep advantage.


Refresh your pillow

A cold pillow helps to reduce body temperature and make us feel more comfortable. It is also a trick that will help us avoid migraines and headaches many people experience due to heat.

To cool your pillow you can use a fresh package, as we usually have in the freezer to apply ourselves when we "put ice" and introduce it into the pillowcase. If we have a cold pack, eye masks are also based cold pack containing special cooling pearls.

Use a damp pajamas or light

You can moisten your pajamas and throw you on a towel to prevent bed wetting, but if you feel uncomfortable sleeping with wet clothes, you can also dip a cloth and put ice in front of the bed.