Approximately 2 hours.

Approximately 2 hours if unused. This is the same amount of time it takes for Cool Gelmat™ to assume body temperature. 

Yes. It is over 95% water based and it is environmentally friendly and safe for children.

Cool Gelmat™'s manufacturing process is patented. Cool Gelmat™ is the only one that always stays flat and never goes lumpy, giving you years of hassle-free cool relief.

The product is only in its third season internationally and there have been no returns due to product failure. We are confidently giving a 3 year guarantee, and expect this to be lengthened as the years go by.

As a person's temperature increases, there is, in general, a feeling of cold despite an increasing body temperature. Once the new temperature is reached, there is a feeling of warmth. A fever can be caused by many different conditions ranging from benign to potentially serious.

With very high temperatures Cool Gelmat™’s treatment to reduce fever can be effective at lowering ones temperature, which may improve the affected person's comfort.

Fluctuating hormone levels indicate a migraine relation: 75 percent of adult patients are women, although migraine affects approximately equal numbers of prepubescent boys and girls. Propensity to migraine headache sometimes disappears during pregnancy, but in some women migraines may become more frequent. The pain of migraine is invariably accompanied by other features. Many patients experience sensory hyperexcitability manifested by photophobia, phonophobia, and osmophobia and seek a dark and quiet room. Blurred vision, or sweating may be noted during the headache phase. Cool Gelmat™ may offer relief from some symptoms.

Severe hot flushes can make it difficult to get a full night's sleep (often characterized as insomnia), which in turn can affect mood, impair concentration, and cause other physical problems. When hot flashes occur at night, they are called "night sweats." As estrogen is typically lowest at night, some women get night sweats without having any hot flashes during the daytime.

The hot-flush event may be repeated a few times each week or constantly throughout the day, with the frequency reducing over time. Hot flushes may begin to appear several years before menopause starts and last for years afterwards. Some women undergoing menopause never have hot flushes. Others have mild or infrequent flushes. The worst sufferers experience dozens of hot flashes each day. In addition, hot flashes are often more frequent and more intense during hot weather or in an overheated room, the surrounding heat apparently making the hot flashes themselves both more probable and more severe.

Radiation therapy is in itself painless. Many low-dose palliative treatments  cause minimal or no side effects, although short-term pain flare up can be experienced in the days following treatment due to oedema compressing nerves in the treated area. Treatment to higher doses causes varying side effects during treatment , in the months or years following treatment , or after re-treatment . The nature, severity, and longevity of side effects depends on the organs that receive the radiation, the treatment itself, and the patient.

Most side effects are predictable and expected. Side effects from radiation are usually limited to the area of the patient's body that is under treatment

The main side effects reported are fatigue and skin irritation, like a mild to moderate sun burn. The fatigue often sets in during the middle of a course of treatment and can last for weeks after treatment ends. Cool Gelmat™ may offer some relief to the effected areas that have over heated, however please consult with your doctor to make sure this is the right course of action for your particular case.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are used as a first-line radical therapy in a number of malignancies. They are also used for adjuvant therapy, i.e. when the macroscopic tumor has already been completely removed surgically but there is a reasonable statistical risk that it will recur.

Chemotherapy and radiotherapy are commonly used for palliation, where disease is clearly incurable: in this situation the aim is to improve the quality of and prolong life. Hormone manipulation is well established, particularly in the treatment of breast and prostate cancer. Heat issues can occur as side effects of all these treatments, please consult with your doctor to see if Cool Gelmat™ may offer some relief for your symptoms.

Cool Gelmat's™ are also used by persons suffering from multiple sclerosis (MS). In multiple sclerosis, nerve fibers become demyelinated which leads to pain and discomfort when temperature is elevated. Nerve fibers may also be remyelinating or in the process of repairing themselves and still be sensitive to elevated temperatures. The Cool Gelmat™ keeps the patients temperature down reducing the pain symptoms.

There are many issues that can cause us to sleep hot at night, the weather, our mattress our hormones.  Cool Gelmat™ will give you relief by reducing your temperature allowing you to fall asleep. The Cool Gelmat™ will re-cool itself after use time and time again, so if sleeping hot is an issue every night or just in summer Cool Gelmat™ may give you the relief you have been seeking!

Treatment involves rapid mechanical cooling along with standard resuscitation measures. The body temperature must be lowered immediately. The patient should be moved to a cool area (indoors, or at least in the shade) and clothing removed to promote heat loss.

Active cooling methods may be used: The person is bathed in cool water or a Cool Gelmat™ can be applied. However, wrapping the patient in wet towels or clothes can actually act as insulation and increase the body temperature.  Applying the Cool Gelmat™ to the torso, head, neck, and groin will help cool the patient. 

Summer can be uncomfortable for anyone. But for people with diabetes, the heat and humidity can be particularly hazardous. One of the complications of diabetes, both Type 1 and Type 2, is an impaired ability to adjust to rises in temperature, which can cause dangerous increases in body temperature during the summer.

The underlying problem, nerve damage, occurs in 60 to 70 percent of diabetics; it can affect nearly every organ in the body, including sweat glands. When nerve damage keeps the sweat glands from working properly, the body fails to cool down as the mercury rises.

Cool Gelmat™ may be of assistance in cooling down the body rapidly should a diabetic be suffering in the heat.

Certain medical and surgical conditions can influence the timing of menopause.

The important "sex hormone" for men is testosterone. Men reach their peak of testosterone around the age of 18 and then decline slowly at an average of 1% per year there after. In some men, this level of testosterone may fall significantly enough to produce symptoms. It may occur as early as age 35 but is usually more often seen in men over 50. Symptoms include low sex drive, weak erections, low energy, irritability and moodiness, muscle loss, low motivation.

For some women, symptoms may be skin or vaginal dryness only; others may have low mood and irritability; and others have generalised aches and pains and/or low sex drive. Many women have all of these to deal with. It seems like it all comes down to "luck" but there are likely to be genetic, dietry, social and environmental influences.

The average age of onset for the symptoms of menopause is between 48 and 52 years old. However it can start at a much younger age or it may pass unnoticed until your late 50's. Most commonly women present with symptoms from age 45 onwards. Women who present with symptoms under the age of 40 may have premature ovarian failure. Early onset of menopause is often common within a family i.e. your mother or your sister also started having menopause symptoms at an early age. Women who start menopause at an earlier age are at a higher risk of developing osteoporosis later on in life.

It can be quite common for infants and young children to become hot during sleep. This can be simply because the room is kept too warm or the bedclothes are too dense, but some children are routinely hot sleepers. Small children cannot always express when they are hot and uncomfortable, so it is important to pay attention and watch for signs that they may be overheating.

A common reason for children overheating is illness or  fever. Fevers in infants can be potentially dangerous or even deadly, so if you notice your baby is extremely flushed and sweating, whether at night or not, it is important to take their temperature to see whether they have a fever.

With older children, particularly teenagers, sleeping hot can be associated with puberty. This is often noticeable around the age of twelve and ends around the age of eighteen, although this is not specific and can vary from child to child.

Controlling your body temperature the right way is important; keeping the room too cold, even with a lot of blankets, can cause insomnia. A cool, even temperature will give you the best chance of a good night's sleep.