Hot weather can be unbearable for people with Multiple Sclerosis.

Finding ways for MS cooling is vital for reducing the effects of heat on aggravating your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis.

Multiple Sclerosis can caused reduced sweating and sweating is one of the main ways your body uses for cooling off.

Keep in mind that the majority of bladder control medications prevent the body from sweating.

If the lack of sweating and overheating become a major problem to the point where you have trouble catching your breath and it makes you feel like passing out, then talk to your doctor about the possibility of you being taken off of this type of medication, to see if these type of reactions go away.

When it comes to bladder control medications, Ditropan or anything related to it can be a big cause for these more severe reactions, especially if you have been on this medication for a few years.

If you suspect a medication that you are taking may be causing these type of more severe symptoms, discuss this with your doctor.

My doctor took me off of the Ditropan and other bladder control medications, when I got to the point where I was having more severe reactions to this type of mediation.

Overheating with Multiple Sclerosis can make you feel like any of the following:

* lightheadedness or dizziness

* nauseousness or throwing up, when more severely overheated.

* trouble catching your breath

* fainting spells

* trouble cooling off

Overheating can aggravate MS symptoms including:

* nerve pain

* numbness

* reduce balance or abilities to stand and/or walk

* increase fatigue

* increase vision problems

* increase number of infections, with increasing running fevers

* increase possibility of MS attacks or relapses

What can help you with cooling off with Multiple Sclerosis, when the weather gets too hot for you to handle it?

Tips for helping you for finding relief, with MS cooling can include:

* Air Conditioning

This can be a very expensive option and if you can't afford to run an air conditioner, then you can't afford it.

Go to a public place, that has air conditioning if you can get there.

At least you don't have to pay for the air conditioning yourself, but it may not be as cold as you need it either.

Another consideration with air conditioning, for people with Multiple Sclerosis is that in some cases, using air conditioning can cause MS nerve pain.

If this is something you are experiencing, I would suggest going to a public place, that has air conditioning, like a mall, a grocery store, a library or some other public place that is indoors...

...since their air conditioning is usually not kept as cold and see if this helps you to find relief to the heat, without causing you the Multiple Sclerosis nerve pain.

* Running 1 or more Fans in the room that you are in

This doesn't sound as good as air conditioning, but it can help you to cool off more than you may think, initially.

Just moving the air around can feel cooler to some degree.

* Wet your Skin or your Head for Evaporative Cooling

One of the major problems that most people, diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, can have happen is that MS can shut down the ability for your body to sweat.

When your body sweats, this helps the body to cool off as the sweat evaporates.

Sweating also helps to detoxify the body, which can also help to reduce internal body heat to some degree.

When you have problems with your body not sweating, like it should, this can greatly increase how much you overheat.

When you put water on your skin and wet your hair on your head and sit in front of a fan, this can help your body to cool off as the water evaporates.

The body loses about 60 to 70 percent of its internal body heat through the head, so wetting your head and sitting in front of a fan can help very much in helping you to cool off.

* Putting water on the skin of the arms, legs, hands, feet, face, neck, upper chest or middle of the back (as far down as you can reach) and sitting in front of a running fan can also help tremendously in cooling off you body, since these areas are either hotter or have a larger surface area to better aid in evaporative cooling.

If you can't afford air conditioning or you cant tolerate air conditioning, this way of cooling off can help a large amount.

* Use Ice Packs

Ice packs can help to some degree, but they are difficult to keep them where they help the most, because they freeze rigid.

* Drink More Water -- Keeping Hydrated

Drinking larger amounts of ice water or very cold water can help, if your body can handle it.

Sometimes it is more difficult for the body to deal with drinking very cold water.

Keeping hydrated during hot weather can help tremendously in reducing feeling dizzy, feeling like passing out, or developing more severe conditions like heat exhaustion or heat stroke, which can land you in the hospital or even become more life threatening.

* Freezing towels

If you take towels, wet them and put them in the freezer, you can wrap them around your neck, place them over your head, or wrap them around your shoulders or cover your back with them.

This is one very effective and cheaper way to cool off your body faster.

This may require getting your clothes wet some as the ice melts, but the water on your clothing with also evaporate, helping to speed up the process in cooling off your body.

When it comes to MS cooling, there are a cooling devices, that are sold, both online and off line, that can help with bringing, those of us with Multiple Sclerosis relief from the heat.

Cooling Devices, that can help your body to cool off, can include wearing any of the following:

* cooling hat

* cooling vest

* cooling bandanna

* cooling banditos

I found a website, which has a way to purchase any or all of the cooling devices mentioned above for helping with Multiple Sclerosis cooling, including cooling hats, cooling vests, cooling bandannas, cooling banditos and the like.

I have included a link to a website, where you can purchase any of the cooling devices mentioned, but keep in mind, they are very busy during the hot months of the year...

...and it can take up to 3 or 4 days for them to ship out an order, because these cooling devices are in high demand during hotter weather, especially for those of us, who have Multiple Sclerosis.

Please be patient with this company, since they don't sound like they are a very big company, but they are doing the best that they can in shipping out the orders, as quickly as they can...

...since the demand is so high for their cooling products this year, because of there being longer periods of more extreme heat more often this year, in many places.

I ordered the banditos, myself, because they are tied around the neck and cover the shoulders and the middle of the back with fabric that is filled with beads that can be soaked in water, which react with the water and become cold.

I think the banditos can be put in the freezer too to make them colder, since this is what I am planning on doing with the ones that I ordered.

...but I will let you know about how it works with putting them in the freezer, to see if they can handle being frozen to make them colder.

The Bandannas do work for helping with cooling too, since they are tied around the neck and help to cool the blood in the veins of the neck, which helps to cool the blood that is circulated throughout the body, but the banditos cover a larger area, and if the cold can be tolerated, they may be more effective in helping to cool you off when you are overheated.

I have used the bandannas before, but not the banditos, so I will let you know more about what I find, when I can compare how effective they both are at cooling the body when it comes to MS cooling.

If you would like to find out more about banditos or see a picture of what they look like, click on the link below to find out more about them.

Also -- this company for this website does ship internationally, if you are outside of the USA.

If you are searching for any of these cooling devices, listed above, click on the link to learn more -- cooling devices for MS

Finding ways to reduce the effects of heat on the symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis makes a huge difference in reducing your symptoms of Multiple Sclerosis during hot weather months.

You need to do all that you can to prevent overheating or at least reduce the heat problem with Multiple Sclerosis because this also helps with reducing setting yourself up to have more MS attacks occur too.

MS attacks tend to be much worse during the warmer months of the year and during the more extreme temperature changes, like during Spring and Fall.

Often Fall appears to be worse for causing more MS attacks, than Spring appears to be.

Cooling off with Multiple Sclerosis is very important, so find whatever you can to keep your temperature down.

Cooling off will help to reduce your MS symptoms and prevent it becoming a more serious problem, with you ending up in the hospital or worse.