Hot cup of tea cooled me down

I cannot recall ever drinking anything hot to cool myself down before. I don't normally drink much in the way of hot beverages though. I will occasionally drink a cup of hot tea or hot apple cider, but not normally when it is hot out. I drink ice cold drinks most of the time.

Well they say that it makes you sweat and that the moisture on your skin actually cools you down....that might be one reason...I am not sure that is true..just something I heard!

Yes, I have. The thing is the hot drink is hotter than the outside temperature and you. When you drink it then you are cooler because the temperature outside or in the room is much cooler than the hot drink is. Therefore the result is you cool down. I hope this made sense, lol.

Last year a friend of ours was visiting, and we were out at the fair. It was 90 degrees that day, and we were all over heated. We stopped at a coffee stand. Hubby and I got iced coffees to cool off with. My friend got hot coffee. Afterwards she felt better. She said the heat inside your body helps you adjust, inside and out, to the heat in the air. I guess it makes sense!

HI, No, that's the last thing i want when i am hot. I have always herad it would cool u off but i go for my ol' standby, iced tea. that's about all i ever drink but coffe in the morning & sometimes a cup in the afternoon especially when it's cold outside. HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND. STILL thinking of u in that freezar. Think u ought to make that into a discussion. It was soooo funny.

I normally drink Gatorade because my electolites get off balance drinking and sweating so much. Too much ice water just makes me tired so Gatorade to the rescue.

I have done that a few times too. I mainly like to drink coffee. I have drank that sometimes when I am hot if I already have some made up. I do not especially make it on hot days to cool down though. I prefer cold water instead.

I know that tea was good and this is one more reason to keep on drinking tea. Cheers!!

It's a common saying here in the UK, OOOOH have a cup of tea, that'll cool yer down!! To be honest, I've never drunk tea when it's sweltering though because I'm that hot I never fancy it! x

Hey cynthiann! I have never heard that drinking something hot might be the cure for feeling the heat, but who knows! I have definitely been there to the point where I have drank so much water and other liquids and nothing seemed to make me feel better! I never tried to counteract it by drinking something hot! If that worked for you then more power to it! Maybe if I had tried that I wouldn't have felt so sick! I might have to try that the next time I feel like I am going to pass out from the heat!

I have in the past drank tea when feeling hot and it does have the weird effect of cooling you down.

I think that't not the hot tea make you feel cool,just the high temprature!The temprature of the hot tea is higher than the air',so when you drink tea,your temprature become higher than the air',so you feel a little cool.

Hello, This has happen to me several times before in the past, I guess the body accepts hot things in order to get cool, it is the same as taking a hot shower on a hot day, your body will cool down almost instantly. I find when you drink cold things when your hot, you can actually give your body a shock, and you will start to feel light headed and dizzy, untill you gain contious again, I don't know if you had this feeling of shock or not, when you drank the cold cup of water, but I encourage you to also try taking a hot shower when ever you are really hot. Happy My Lotting!

Someone once said to me, "Hot drinks on hot days, cold drinks on cold." Apparently it's less of a shock to the system. I remember having an awful headache one day, paracetamol wouldn't shift it, and I felt terrible. About 3pm I suddenly got a craving for a cup of coffee - and thought it was a bad idea as caffine dehydrates you, but I had one anyway. Within about 20 minutes the headache had completely gone.

Hi Cynthiann, I always have hot drinks in the heat as it brings my body temperature up higher so I don't feel as hot myself from the outside heat. In winter if you have a cold drink it cools your blood temp down so you don't feel as cold if that makes sense. I guess that is why they eat hot spicy curries in India plus it keeps the meat from going off in the heat too. LOL. Huggles Ellie :D

HI there: I can't really say one way or another myself I'm not a coffee drinker nor Have I ever liked tea, but glad to hear it helped you out; yeah you gotta watch the heat and humidity it can sneak up on us really fast, and just knock our socks off; take care and be safe!!

i don't drink tea but i drink coffee all time and it don't make me hotter like most people think.i believe it does cool me down when i have been outside and come in to get cooled off.

Yup, not only does the hot dirnk make u adjust, but it makes you slighlty warmer s o yo sweat more hence cooling you down. Weird right :P but its all scientifically proven :D Dylan

I know some people who would drink coffee under the sun, but I'm not one that is capable of doing so. Even if I drink tea in a cool place, I feel dehydrated. And recently, if I drink hot tea I usually need to follow this with something cold because I feel like I can't breathe to good. But as for the hot thing to cool you down trick, i'm supposing it cools you down because of body temperature regulation where the body is sensing an increase in temp and tries to cool itself down by removing heat by sweating.

yes i do,,some time when i feel so hot a cold drink can't work.when i feel that ussualy i make a cup of tea or other drink that hot.,and it work..my sweat is gone.i think it's a right way to to resolve that.