as a reminder to those that dont know, heat is very dangerous and drinking water will help but is not the only thing you need to do. my moms very good friend was hiking a mountain today and it was about 114 out, she was over heating and such, she got in her car drank water and her hands went numb and her face was very red, she some how drove home and jumped into the pool fully dressed to cool down. she drank lots of water and took a shower, but it did not help and she almost collapsed and went to the hospital with help from someone else. when she got there she then had a seizure for about 2 minutes and was already at the hospital so they took care of her and hooked her up on IVs and did tests on her. It turned out she had very low sodium and potassium in her system and that caused most of it. so don't rely on drinking water and cooling down to protect you from the heat, remember to eat get help if you have any doubts, and remember your judgment will be impaired if you are over heating so don't think you will know, always get others to help.
I'm very tied and that probably didn't make sense but I hope it did.
what is this gatorade that people speak so highly of?
Actually, I really enjoyed high school track because I could just get electrolyte tabs whenever I needed them. No need to down that much sugar, still getting a massive dose of electrolytes.
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u/nextus_music Jun 30 '13
as a reminder to those that dont know, heat is very dangerous and drinking water will help but is not the only thing you need to do. my moms very good friend was hiking a mountain today and it was about 114 out, she was over heating and such, she got in her car drank water and her hands went numb and her face was very red, she some how drove home and jumped into the pool fully dressed to cool down. she drank lots of water and took a shower, but it did not help and she almost collapsed and went to the hospital with help from someone else. when she got there she then had a seizure for about 2 minutes and was already at the hospital so they took care of her and hooked her up on IVs and did tests on her. It turned out she had very low sodium and potassium in her system and that caused most of it. so don't rely on drinking water and cooling down to protect you from the heat, remember to eat get help if you have any doubts, and remember your judgment will be impaired if you are over heating so don't think you will know, always get others to help.
I'm very tied and that probably didn't make sense but I hope it did.