Is there a reason that children's wards are so hot?

[Rubica]

Or is this just the same for all hospitals?

Been on 2 children's wards and paediatric a&e with my son since yesterday (moved around a lot) and have found the wards to be boiling. No fans and they're talking to me about making sure he doesn't get too hot 😥

Are all wards like this?

The hospital where I used to work, the heating system couldn't be set to different temperatures in different wards. So the whole hospital always felt too hot

I!E all hospital wards are much too hot for comfort.

IME the paeds and O&G wards are hotter than others, assume it's to keep the babies warm. Adults/elderly are stifling too though- hate staying in hospital

I'm not sure about children's wards but every time I go to parent's evening at my DC's school, I nearly pass out with the heat!

Goodness yes.

We've had a few hospital stays and they are unbearably hot and airless.

Last summer we were in an older hospital and DD had a bed right next to the window. Thankfully it opened and we had a lovely breeze most days. They did also have fans though.

All hospital wards are too bloody hot 🥵

The only hospital where I found that the temperature was just right was a hospital where all of the patients have their own individual rooms.

I have found they are realhot in the daybut freezing at night.

Probably because most likely f the time people who are in hospital are quite ill/frail/vulnerable and are relatively sedentary, so are likely to get cold quickly.

Yes!!We are frequent overnighters at our local hospital
The amazing nurses always try to get ds a bed by the window otherwise I think I would sweat to death by midnight.
How they work in that heat is beyond me.

The only part of a hospital I've ever been in that wasn't boiling was intensive care, to keep the risk of infection lower, which you'd think would be a priority for all wards. Children's wards to seem to be even more boiling than most though. Hope your little one improves soon.

If you are ill and in bed it's more difficult to maintain body temperature, which is why hospitals are hot. They're not designed to cater for healthy visitors.

Even as a patient I've found them far too hot and heard numerous people complain of the same.

I’ve never been in a hospital that isn’t hot?

I once stayed over in the children's ward with dd3. I've honestly never been so cold. My one blanket wasn't cutting it so when they gave dd the all clear at 4am (but said we could stay and go after breakfast) I decided to go there and then. I remember shaking in the car (part of my coldness was exhaustion) driving home.

SCBU was so hot and you weren't allowed to open windows. August/September in scbu with Dtds was not comfortable.

Yes! I had a very stern paediatrician tell me I was exaggerating when I complained about the heat. My daughter was in for 11 days (middle of winter) and it was 27 degrees in her room. She had spiking temp of 39+ and he was telling me to keep her cool! I measured the room temp myself but he was insisted I must have been unwell to think it was that hot!