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Poll: What do you do against cold hands while typing or doing mouse work? Thread poster: ProZ.com Staff
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| Finger exercise | Oct 30, 2016 |
Hi! An interesting question! I usually heat up my room to prevent this but occassionally, especially if the heating season has not started yet, it happens to me as well. Then I do what works perfectly even in winter. I use a simple exercise - to flex (make a fist) and extend my fingers repeatedly (to pump in blood). I find it much more effective then putting them on a radiator
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Julian Holmes 
Japan
Local time: 17:37
Member (2011)
Japanese to English
with fingertips exposed work just fine.
If it's really freezing, portable mini-size hand warmers inserted into the palm area of the gloves work wonders.
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Michael Harris
Germany
Local time: 10:37
Member (2006)
German to English
When doing stupid stuff outside like chainsawing, I wear gloves but we have heaters hear in Germany, and I just turn it up if needed, but I generally do not have that sort of problem - always in shorts and T-shirt, no matter what the weather.
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I might have cold feet inside (and outside), but never cold hands. Anyway, my apartment has a perfect air conditioning system...
Minor addition:
About cold and warm hands, for those who are interested in learning Portuguese (Mario Chavez?), we have two opposite sayings:
1. Mãos quentes, coração frio, amor vadio (warm hands, cold heart, rogue love)
2. Mãos frias, coração quente, amor para sempre (cold hands, warm heart, long lasting love)
... See more I might have cold feet inside (and outside), but never cold hands. Anyway, my apartment has a perfect air conditioning system...
Minor addition:
About cold and warm hands, for those who are interested in learning Portuguese (Mario Chavez?), we have two opposite sayings:
1. Mãos quentes, coração frio, amor vadio (warm hands, cold heart, rogue love)
2. Mãos frias, coração quente, amor para sempre (cold hands, warm heart, long lasting love)
[Edited at 2016-10-30 13:01 GMT] ▲ Collapse
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It rarely gets that cold down here in West Cornwall, but on a really cold day, I put on my thermal undies (so alluring) and a woolly jumper on top, plus a woolly Peruvian poncho if really desperate. I thus soon feel warm - and then there's turning up the central heating - but that's so expensive!
[Edited at 2016-10-30 11:02 GMT]
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I have a USB hand-warmer
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| A cup of tea solves (almost) anything | Oct 30, 2016 |
I work next to a pellet stove: if I'm really freezing I just put on a woolly jumper and get myself a hot cup of tea. Normally it works.
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| Fingerless Gloves | Oct 30, 2016 |
My right hand tends to "freeze" almost every day.
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Mario Chavez (X)
Local time: 04:37
English to Spanish
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Unless I'm outside in winter or inside with the thermostat at 55 F, I never get cold hands.
Women experience temperature differently than men. This is no a matter of opinion; there are studies.
Finally, having one or both cold hands for no apparent external reason (cold weather) may be a sign or symptom of some other ailment. Please see your doctor, don't try to self-diagnose the problem yourself.
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Lingua 5B
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 10:37
Member (2009)
English to Croatian
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| Your cold hands... | Oct 30, 2016 |
are most likely not related typing or mouse work. I do both a lot on a daily basis and never get cold hands. The only time they get cold is when I am outdoor in super cold weather or touching snow without gloves on.
If it's a circulation problem, try ginko biloba drops and excercises, both general and hand excercises. Or a glass of red wine.
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| When I take care that the rest of my body is warm, my hands usually follow | Oct 30, 2016 |
I make sure the rest of my body remains warm by wearing a thick sweater, not too thin trousers and warm slippers, and I sometimes put a blanket on my knees. I also get up from my chair regularly to do some household chores or take a ride on my bicycle.
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| Alpaca cut-off mittens | Oct 30, 2016 |
Living in Bolivia has its advantages. I love my fingerless mittens
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I get up and move or I make tea and use the warm cup
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Sheila Wilson
Spain
Local time: 09:37
Member (2007)
English
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| I moved to where it doesn't get cold! | Oct 30, 2016 |
In five years here my garden thermometer has never shown single figures. 10C has been the lowest ever, around 5am on a January morning. And the days we don't see at least 18-20C are rare. I don't think I've seen my office temperature below 19C. I do have an underdesk radiant heater of I think 200w but I don't recall having used it here. We also have one convector heater in the house that we use a couple of evenings a year. No aircon either as there's always enough of a breeze.
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