Overall, I can say that I’m feeling much better. Before, hot weather made me tired very quickly. The vest vastly improves this heat problem. 

I feel much better while wearing it. I experienced that I am feeling best at temperatures just below 20°C. Everything above impairs my performance extremely. Meanwhile, thanks to the cooling vest, I can concentrate much better on a task, especially in high temperatures

Most of all, I use the vest at work. I’m a software developer. With all the computers and other equipment, temperatures may easily rise above 25 degrees. When I wear the cooling vest, I don’t have any problems, even when the air conditioner is turned off in summer. With the vest I am totally independent of the conditions around me. Even my employer has noticed how well I am doing with the vest and has offered to get another one for me at company expenses.

The vest is very easy to handle. I hold it under the tap for a couple of seconds and then wipe it with a towel to dry the outer fabric. Once I have put it on, it feels a bit chilly for just a moment. But then it feels very comfortable.

Mostly I use about 1 liter of water. The cooling effect then lasts for one and a half days, which is a very long time. So I’m also comfortable when I go out in the evening.

I can absolutely recommend the vest to all people suffering from MS and heat problems. Then, I chose the E.COOLINE cooling vest because it was easy to handle and I didn’t regret my choice. My quality of life has improved a lot. Before, steady performance always depended on temperatures. As soon as it got warm, my concentration dropped noticeably. Before, I always took a cold shower in such moments, if possible. Meanwhile I can count on my potential, thanks to E.COOLINE. The vest works as a cold shower worked before.

I have been a neurologist for almost 25 years and have been working with multiple sclerosis.

Multiple sclerosis has fortunately lost much of its problems in recent years, partly due to modern drug therapy and partly due to the possibilities of rehabilitative medicine. In Austria, the Judendorf Strassengel Clinic is dealing with this topic. A major problem of multiple sclerosis is the still existing ignorance about the cause of this disease, but also the individual development of the disease in each person.

A further problem is the individual insecurity of those affected with regard to activities in professional and everyday life, in the sense of physical activity, sports and mental performance. Today, special individual training programs make it possible to maintain good performance and physical fitness in multiple sclerosis.

Particularly in the summer months and during physical activity, the physical symptoms can often worsen dramatically, which can also lead to more rapid exhaustion (“fatigue syndrome”). Both effects have an enormous limitation on the ability to perform in everyday life and at work, as well as a considerable influence on the quality of life. However, the effects are reversible. This means that the negative symptoms disappear again as the body cools down.

One of the best known phenomena of multiple sclerosis is the so-called Uthoff phenomenon. “In the original sense, a temporary deterioration in visual acuity in multiple sclerosis (MS) occurring after physical exertion is referred to as “Uthoff’s phenomenon”. The phenomenon was first described in 1890 by the ophthalmologist Wilhelm Uhthoff (1853-1927). It is based on a reversible blocking of the conductivity of the pre-damaged optic nerve as a result of an increase in body temperature. Uhthoff’s phenomenon in a broader sense is also called the temporary worsening of neurological MS symptoms when body temperature is raised (e.g. during fever, hot baths or in the sauna). More than 2/3 of people with MS are affected.

In order to prevent overheating, cool rooms are certainly an advantage, especially in the summer months, but also cool baths, etc. However, many well-intentioned pieces of advice often cannot be combined with everyday life, so I already thought about possibilities more than 20 years ago. Primarily the clinic Judendorf Strassengel and I tried to improve the problem by using active cooling. However, the possibility that originated from NASA technology proved to be technically complex and too expensive.

For several years now, we have been using the passive cooling vests (E.COOLINE) from pervormance at the Judendorf Clinic. This passive cooling system of the body can primarily prevent overheating and thus prevent the symptoms of the Uhthoff phenomenon. A small series of studies shows this and could be presented at large international congresses.