How hot is 'hand hot'?

[astral276]

As title. How hot in degrees centigrade is 'hand hot'?

Have Googled but can't find a definition.

[CarnoustieCats]

As title. How hot in degrees centigrade is 'hand hot'?

Have Googled but can't find a definition.

Insert finger in water - if cold, not hand hot. If ouchie, too hot. Works for me.

[JudesNiceThings]

Centigrade = 34 degrees

Farenheit = 98.4 degrees

ie- blood heat?

[bykimbo]

I'd have thought hand hot meant a temperature you can comfortably bear with your hand in it - which would be considerably warmer than blood heat, wouldn't it?

[somersethedge]

cant help you with the degrees centigrade but I have learnt from Pams hostpitals appointment that "hand hot" changes from person to person but is "as hot as your hand can stand for about 5 mins"... they use it to bring the veins in the back of the hand up so they can do the Chemo.

Not much help I know but might explain why you cant find the answer on google

[raindropsies]

This is all I can find, but cannot post link

[astral276]

So around 40C then?

I understand 'hand hot' would mean different things to different people. Someone who had done manual labour all their lives (e.g. a builder) would feel heat through their hardened hands differently than someone who had worked in an office all their lives.

Hence why I thought there would be a 'standard' for what hand hot meant.

[raindropsies]

So around 40C then?

I understand 'hand hot' would mean different things to different people. Someone who had done manual labour all their lives (e.g. a builder) would feel heat through their hardened hands differently than someone who had worked in an office all their lives.

Hence why I thought there would be a 'standard' for what hand hot meant.

In the plumbing world theres a regulator that needs to be fitted for certain types of taps (when fitted in nursing homes, prisons, hospitals & hotels etc) to prevent scalding & burns, I think (off the top of my head) that the tempreture is restricted to 49c, however I am not 100% sure and would have to ask merchant to get the exact temp.

But the only hand hot indicators (similar to the screen shot) that I can find are for both 50c & 70c

[Pink_Panther]

Centigrade = 34 degrees

Farenheit = 98.4 degrees

ie- blood heat?

Hold onaminute!
Wot about those peeps that are cold blooded an have to sunbathe to warm up eh! Yer neva thought of that.

[somersethedge]

and if I really wanted to be pedantic.... my normal temperature (blood or otherwise) is one degree below "normal" so for me it would be 97.4

but would I be perdantic