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Sleeping with a heating pad Sleeping with anything electrical under your back is a safety hazard — you can burn yourself and even risk an electrical fire. Even worse, there are no proven benefits to using a heating pad for more than 30 minutes.

The patient is concerned about skin and other cancers due to excessive exposure to the warmth. The most common complication reported from heating pad use is skin burns. Thermal injuries typically occur in patients who have sensory deficits, are taking sedating medications, or have recently ingested alcohol.

Apply heat for 15 to 20 minutes at a time. Moist heat (hot packs, baths, showers) works better than dry heat. Try an all-day heat wrap, available in pharmacies. If you are using an electric heating pad, avoid falling asleep while the pad is on.

Therefore, the maximal temperature of commonly used heating pads must be tightly controlled to avoid overheating, which may cause kidney or tissue injury, may falsify the experimental data and could influence the study results.

Heat can make inflammation significantly worse. Ice can aggravate symptoms of tightness and stiffness; it can also just make any pain worse when its unwanted. Both ice and heat are pointless or worse when unwanted: icing when youre already shivering, or heating when youre already sweating.

By increasing the temperature and improving circulation, heat can relax injured muscles, heal damaged tissues and improve flexibility. Not only can heat calm pain flare-ups, but it is an excellent way to soothe muscle tension, stiffness and even chronic back pain.

Heat helps loosen the muscle tightness that causes spasms, increases blood flow, and improves elasticity of connective tissue. Cold decreases the local tissue temperature which produces an analgesic and anti-inflammatory effect, thus reducing pain.

Dont place a heating pad or heated gel pack directly on your skin. Wrap it in a towel before applying to skin to avoid burns. Dont fall asleep using a heating pad. When using a heating pad, start on the lowest level and slowly increase the heat intensity.

You should never sleep with a heating pad, even if it is equipped with an automatic shutoff. You should not use a heating pad near a water source, such as in the bathroom. Electrocution is a very real risk, and a house fire could also result.