Why are children more likely than adults to become hypothermic?

Answer 1

Example:You have a brand new doll.

That means your body is strong and its in shape insted of adults that are weak inside.

Example:You have an old doll and its tearing apart...

If you stay healthy you might be able to survive and if you have a strong inner power!

Also adults can die of chicken pox, and there is a good percentage that adults

will have systemic herpies which can cause death to adults.

Answer 2

I am not too sure about elderly people, perhaps their temperature regulation getting weaker and less well functioned with age. However, with babies, their temperature regulation system is not fully developed yet and this is the main risk of them having hypothermia, therefore, wrap a baby up in blankets to ensure that they do not get hypothermia in cold weather.

Answer 3

The younger a child is in age usually correlates with a smaller body mass and less fat. Hypothermia is a reduction in body temperature. The smaller mass means is takes less time for outside sources to change the internal temperature. Since I child usally has less fat and fat acts like insulation then they have less natural protection from the effects of outside forces.

An example for body mass - If you have two equal size pans and fill one with one inch of water and the other with 5 inches. Then you set them both on the same size burners on a stove and set hem at the same temperature at the same time the pan with one inch will start boiling first since there is less to heat up.

An example for Fat - Take the same two pans and fill them with equal amounts of water and set them on the both on the same size burners on a stove and set them at the same temperature at the same time. If you placed anything (IE a cookie sheet, a piece of wood, etc..) under one of the pans and not the other then the pan without anything under it would boil first.

Answer 4

one of the main ways we lose heat from the body is through the cooling of our skin. As a body grows its mass increases by 3 times but its surface (skin) only doubles. so all the guts & innards that make & store heat; have greater mass (more mass= more storage & production of heat) in relationship to the surface area so any big person loses less heat in proportion than a small person. Skinny people often complain about being cold all the time & Fat folks are often warm in the winter.

Answer 5

babies and old people do not have as much fat as a normal human being. there brains are also wearing out (OLD) and underdeveloped (YOUNG)

Answer 6

Their smaller body size means greater surface area exposed. It therefore takes a smaller area exposed for a shorter time for the onset of hypothermia.

Answer 7

Babies have less body mass.

Answer 8

because they are smaller