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Cold temperatures nights can be very, very cold so cold, in some places, that irrespective of exactly how many blankets and quilts you put over yourself, you never seem to get any warmer. The clear answer to the situation, of course, is always to snuggle your self under an heated blanket: just plug it in, and keep warm. Seems simple enough, right?

Well, not really. Regrettably, electric blankets have got some thing of an adverse status. As recently as a decade ago, they had a tendency to hurt their users, by producing electric shocks, burns off and sometimes even fires. Older electric fires are still producing 1000s of fires annually today, and people who cant sense heat may still be burned also by safer modern electric blankets.

Used carefully, but, electric blankets may be safe, as long as you make sure to buy a new one (never buy one second-hand) and check always that you are sensitive enough to heat to feel when it gets too hot. You could also consider simply utilizing the electric blanket before you enter it to warm the bed up, although not actually sleeping beneath the electric blanket, rather eliminating and unplugging it before you head to bed. Make extra sure that the umbrella never gets damp, and that you dont utilize it along with every other blankets. Finally, you need to change the electric blanket every couple of years, or earlier if like it is in bad condition it begins to appear.

For most people, though, needing to cope with all these challenges to use this type of simple point seems an excessive amount of trouble. As hot water bottles cool off rather than getting hotter as time passes, and may be fitted with special soft covers in order to avoid burning you, the best and most common alternative to the electric blanket is probably the hot water bottle. They're also much cheaper. v2 cigs