Buying hot water bag

[fukutotukitori]

Hi guys,

It's quite cold outside now, and I need to buy hot water bottle. It's not thermal bottle.
It's a bag which contains hot water, and can make us feel warmer.

Thank you.

[Jukka Aho]

It's quite cold outside now, and I need to buy hot water bottle. It's not thermal bottle.
It's a bag which contains hot water, and can make us feel warmer.

The Finnish term for that is kuumavesipullo (kuuma = “hot”, vesi = “water”, pullo = “bottle”). Google for that and Robert is your mother’s brother.

[Rosamunda]

It's quite cold outside now, and I need to buy hot water bottle.

Not sure I quite understand the cause and effect here!

In my experience, the colder it is outside, the more unbearably warm it is inside. I'm tempted to open the window at night, just so I can breathe

[Rip]

absolutely, when I wake up I really have dry mouth these days due to very warm breathing air. I am even thinking to buy air purifier, not sure if it helps but I am doing some research about it.

It seems you'd need a humidifier, not a purifier. Having a lot laundry to dry (hanging) might help too.

[Upphew]

n my experience, the colder it is outside, the more unbearably warm it is inside. I'm tempted to open the window at night, just so I can breathe

absolutely, when I wake up I really have dry mouth these days due to very warm breathing air. I am even thinking to buy air purifier, not sure if it helps but I am doing some research about it.

Heating cold air drops the relative humidity a lot. As Rip said you need humidifier. Don't get ultrasonic ones, they shake even the lime in water to the air and that isn't healthy either.

[riku2]

It's quite cold outside now, and I need to buy hot water bottle

I thought those hot water bottles are for putting in your bed? the Brits have them a lot on account of the cold houses in england.

For outside why don't you get those disposable heat packs that work with zinc inside. They are massively popular in Japan although i would just put a hat and gloves on instead.

[Beep_Boop]

A few years ago, I spent a couple of days trying to find a kuumavesipullo without success. I ended up getting one of those jelly sacks you can get from any apteekki. They're great! You put them in hot water for a few minutes, they store heat very well. Then you can use them just like any kuumavesipullo. In fact, some of them you can even put in the microwave (read the instructions) to achieve the same result. I never went back to the classic hot water bag.

Jelly sacks.. highly recommended.

[fukutotukitori]

A few years ago, I spent a couple of days trying to find a kuumavesipullo without success. I ended up getting one of those jelly sacks you can get from any apteekki. They're great! You put them in hot water for a few minutes, they store heat very well. Then you can use them just like any kuumavesipullo. In fact, some of them you can even put in the microwave (read the instructions) to achieve the same result. I never went back to the classic hot water bag.

Jelly sacks.. highly recommended.

That sounds good! Thank you for your recommendation. I will go to apteeki and find one

Btw, thank you guys.

[fukutotukitori]

It's quite cold outside now, and I need to buy hot water bottle

I thought those hot water bottles are for putting in your bed? the Brits have them a lot on account of the cold houses in england.

For outside why don't you get those disposable heat packs that work with zinc inside. They are massively popular in Japan although i would just put a hat and gloves on instead.

I know about this disposable heat packs and used them in my home country. But I cannot find any packs like that in Finland. Do you know where to get it?

[riku2]

probably aliexpress is the cheapest for the disposable zinc types (about 8e for 10 packs including postage to finland)

http://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?cat ... ating+pack

i would be careful with the water filled ones if you put them under your clothes when outside. if they leak in a bed then not too much trouble but if you have them next to your body and they leak boiling water - would not be nice.

[goo]

The modern alternative:
http://www.clasohlson.com/fi/L%C3%A4mp% ... er/34-1315
Just make sure to buy one with automatic cutoff, or your feet will be toasted by the morning.

[Kössi K]

A few options:

http://www.verkkoapteekki.fi/product_in ... s_id/60987
Also Lapuan Kankurit makes kuumavesipullo, with a felt cover, available in some Prismas.
Expert.fi has one with a plush dog cover
I once got mine from Tokmanni, it had a knitted pullover on it, was cheaper than the apteekki stuff.
Used it to comfort my new puppy dog in an old, drafty house; he'd sleep with the woolly hot water bottle soundly all night.

[TeppoKroatialainen]

for the humidification - put a wet towel on your radiator-works as a charm

[Upphew]

for the humidification - put a wet towel on your radiator-works as a charm

That can, depending on the water, leave some deposits on the radiator. Been there, done that. Also don't do that with electric radiators!

[wolf80]

I just bought one, the one pharmacy in the Itäkeskus shopping center has them:

http://www.apteekkishop.fi/epages/Aptee ... iewProduct