With temperatures still soaring and a national shortage of fans (lucky you if you got there first!), here’s a few ideas for you and your family to stay cool, calm and collected in the heat, especially at night…

• Have a cool foot bath to help lower your body temperature
• Wear light coloured pure cotton clothes and sleep in cotton bed linen
• Create a cross breeze in your home…open windows overnight at opposite sides of the house (this only works at night if the outside temperature is cooler)
• Keep your bedroom curtains closed during the day
• Apply ice packs or cold compresses on your pulse points – armpits, wrists, groin, inner elbows, backs of knees
• We’ve not tried it, but heard that hanging a wet sheet in front of an open window cools the air as it blows in through the window…we’ll try anything right now!
• A cool shower just before bedtime – or just dunk your feet in cool water before you jump into bed!
• Stay hydrated – water is your best friend!
• A cooling glass of water just before bedtime – we perspire a lot  at night and dont want to become dehydrated
• Going to bed with a cold “hot” water bottle – fill it with cold water and put it in the fridge before bedtime!
• Eating cooling foods such as cucumber, strawberries, melon, mint
• Ice lollies – make some homemade fresh fruit lollies to keep the whole family cool – literally just stick a stick in some fruit (bananas, water melon etc) and shove in the freezer!