why does drinking a hot drink help you cool down?

Answer 1

It helps by rehyrdating you and increasing your ability to sweat (which cools you down).

Answer 2

very vewry good and intellecutual question
Y Answers needs peepal like u.

for ur answer:-

Is it true or just an old wive's tale?
It's a tale we've all heard, usually in the form of a helpful suggestion from a friend. Whenever you mention that you're hot, someone will point out that (believe it or not!) you can cool off by drinking hot tea. The logic behind this claim, is that the hot tea makes you sweat and that helps cool you off. Makes perfect sense, doesn't it? Funny how no one ever suggests that turning up the heat in your house would actually make you cooler.
But many people can't help think that it still makes sense in some way. Well, I'm going to explain to everyone why it doesn't work. Since I am not a physicist in any sense, the scientific details have been simplified. In a nutshell:

The problem in the logic lies with the laws of thermodynamics. The amount of heat lost by sweating and evaporation will never exceed the amount of heat gained by the hot drink you've consumed. Another problem is that the extra heat makes your blood vessels near the skin dilate to help cool your blood faster. The nerves in your skin can sense this, causing you to feel flushed and warm. Not exactly the result you are looking for.

The overall answer, is that hot tea will make you sweat more, and increase your cooling. But the amount of extra cooling won't be enough to offset the heating-up from the tea.

So next time someone points out that you should drink hot tea in the summer, don't rush to put the kettle on. Grab a tall glass of iced tea, an iced coffee or lemonade instead.

Answer 3

The problem in the logic lies with the laws of thermodynamics. The amount of heat lost by sweating and evaporation will never exceed the amount of heat gained by the hot drink you've consumed. Another problem is that the extra heat makes your blood vessels near the skin dilate to help cool your blood faster. The nerves in your skin can sense this, causing you to feel flushed and warm. Not exactly the result you are looking for.

Answer 4

It doesnt it is nothing more than an old wives tale or a daft saying passed from generation to generation.. drink cold fluids to cool your body down and drink hot fluids to raise the temp.

Answer 5

Too many people just goes to a site and copy and paste lol


To make it simple. If you drink a hot liquid, your body has to lower its temperature to cool down the liquid. Same thing happens when you drink a cold drink, your body actually heats up to heat it up to match your core body temperature

Answer 6

haven't a clue my mum always told me to drink tea as it's 1 of the best things to cool you down & you know what they say, mothers know everything

Answer 7

I think, it is something to do with raising your core temp', thus making you hotter, you then sweat( noticeably or not) and that is the process which actually cools you,

Answer 8

I couldn't find a good answer but maybe it's because it raises the body temp which makes you feel cooler.

Answer 9

causes you to sweat, which is natures way of cooling you down.

Answer 10

Vasodilation dude!