NetNews Usenet Archive 1993 #1/NN_1993_1.iso/spool/misc/consumer/21896

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From: [e-mail] (Susan Cole)
Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.med
Subject: heated gloves?
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Date: 13 Jan 93 00:51:19 GMT
Followup-To: misc.consumers
Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, California
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I've directed followups to misc.consumers, but sent the original post to
sci.med as well since I think some people there will be interested.

I have a condition (Raynaud's disease) that causes some of my fingers to lose
all circulation and turn white up to the second joint as a result of exposure
to even moderate cold.  Wearing gloves helps some, but is far from an
adequate solution, probably since my fingers aren't generating any heat and
so there isn't much to trap in the gloves.

At any rate, a year or so ago I saw a baby bottle warmer that worked on a
chemical reaction and was "rechargeable" (by microwaving).  After recharging,
the heat stayed potential until released by mashing the warmer a certain
way.  Since then I've had my eye out for something similar in a glove, but no
luck so far.  Well, in the Sharper Image catalog they have "bun warmers" (ie
stadium seats), that are rechargeable and stay warm up to four hours, but the
shape isn't quite right :-).

So does anyone know where to get rechargeable chemically-heated gloves?
Before you reply, note that I don't want the kind, advertised by Eddie Bauer
and L.L. Bean, that stay warm for 12 hours but use a throw-away chemical packet
insert.  I can't afford several bucks a day to keep my hands comfortable!
But if anyone has a source for REACHARGEABLE warming gloves, please, please
let me know.

Thanks!