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Why do we have to keep an injured person warm?

Asked by Mimishu1995 (23626points) May 16th, 2015

The other day my politics teacher was telling us stories about the war. At one point he talked about a battle on the sea. Some soldiers were wounded and fell into the water. He said: “It was fortunate that at that time the water was warm, otherwise those wounded soldiers would have died. They needed to be kept warm as they were wounded.

That makes me wonder: Why did they need to be kept warm? What happens in the body of an injured person that demands them that?

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