Electric blankets.....are the healthy?

[bluedolphin]

Are electric blankets healthy? Is it better to allow your body to keep itself warm ....does it increase or decrease the quality of sleep?

[darth vader]

A natural blanket works by conserving the body heat emmitted, and artificially warming up the body in the process, so you could ask is a natural blanket healthy too as it does much the same thing (except the heat source is different). Then ask the same question of clothing. I would opinionate that the only reason they may be unhealthy is that they suppress the body's ability to regulate itself through shivering and sweating, so we are less used to heat changes, when away from the electric blanket. There is another school of thought that there is an (very small) emf induced by a leccie blanket but i think this has been disproved as being detrimental.......

[paulz]

healthy, otherwise I get the missus' cold feet jammed on me - not healthy!

[robber1]

They are unhealthy because they always have a temperature. Mine has to stay in bed to recover, but every night it is hot again. They could of course be hot flushes. Maybe hrt would help it.