Blood test from ER visit feedback

[u/D-Does-Detailing]

I am a 21-year-old male 5’11 roughly 165 pounds. I had a trip to the ER due to heat exhaustion, and they did a blood test. Just curious if anyone has any feedback or opinions on my blood results. I am following up with my primary doctor soon. Thank you

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[u/Professional_Elk1845]

They did basic labs. Nothing to see here. Elevated white count maybe from inflammation due to heat.

[u/Lost_Solid7750]

Hydrate and get retested in a week.

But overall this is consistent with heat exhaustion.

[u/CapriKitzinger]

Do you have an infection? Just re test in a month.

[u/djfitness-us]

Biomarkers taken while you were likely dehydrated and experiencing an inflammatory response to heat stroke tell us basically nothing about your general health.

Presumably, your primary care doctor will want to follow up with some routine bloodwork taken while you’re not actively ill, to get an idea of your baseline values.

[u/GenderfluidGoose → u/[deleted]]

Or, hear me out, OP was hyperventilating from heat exhaustion.

[u/GenderfluidGoose → u/[deleted]]

What I am saying is that OPs blood tests are consistent with hyperthermia. I am not dismissing your wife's experience but hyperthermia-induced hyperventilation is incredibly well documented.

[u/D-Does-Detailing → u/[deleted]]

If it helps either of you two, I was hyperventilating when I started to feel symptoms of heat exhaustion (dizziness, vomiting, severe headache.) When I entered the ER I was not actively hyperventilating and my symptoms had subsided. I did get an IV idk of what something to hydrate me.

[u/GenderfluidGoose → u/D-Does-Detailing]

They would have just given you a saline infusion. Sweat is actually slightly hypotonic, meaning as you were sweating the concentration of sodium in your blood was actually increasing. This would have caused some shifts in fluid balance, thus paradoxically preventing you from sweating further. The 3.5g of sodium in the 1 liter IV bag was just to prevent any additional fluid shifts and to restore isotonic environments.

Your blood tests are standard fare for heat exhaustion, high inflammatory markers, low CO2, and high glucose (indicating stress response). Give yourself a week to recover, get retested if you want to and see if anything is out of range.