Heat Stroke

Thanks , Macadia .
And now it's chilly !

I am glad you have recovered Esmay !

This is not instead of drinking water but in addition, I took my fragrant rose petals and simmered some rose water, cooled, strained then poured it into a spray bottle. It's just lovely to have a squirt in the face on hot days and is good for our skin, too.

Entirely my fault but last year in Florida with my son and his family we went to a theme park. I hadn’t had any breakfast and it was extraordinary hot even for Florida when I suddenly became very dizzy and felt weak and sick. My son was with me and he sat me on a wall in the shade and got me a large glass of real lemonade and a large doughnut. After a while I managed to walk to a cafe where I had another drink and started to feel better, a real lesson for when I return to Florida this year, make sure I eat and drink properly.

A week on and I'm conscious of still feeling slightly off .
Next time it's hot I'll make sure that I have an electrolyte mix in a water bottle .
As I drunk that water in the last shop I should have known , but I was already not making a sensible judgement .
The loo is at one end of our High Street and it does inhibit you from drinking enough .
There is no where else .
I consulted a pharmacist and he said that I did the right thing in drinking fluids , eating salty and sweet things .
I think that I had a lucky escape .
Thank you for all the kind messages .
Don't let it happen to you !

I had heatstroke years ago and I thought I was dying I had horrible shakes headache and sweats it was so bad I had to call the doctor who admonished me for not taking care that’ll never happen again

This was truly scary for you and I’m glad you recovered.

Heat strokes are serious. All too often people may suffer from one before they realize what has happened.

Everyone, not just older people, need to stay properly hydrated. If you think you are drinking enough - you probably are not and need much more.

Your intake of water insures that your system is functioning properly - digestive, bowels, circulation, skin and your brain! (forgetfulness, foggy?) Water affects everything.

Older people forget to drink water. That is a problem. I’ve made a goal to drink three 16 oz glasses of water each day (that’s eight cups of water), and even more on hot days.
People say “oh, I can’t drink that much water.” I prefer mine at room temperature - it goes down easier with pills/vitamins; I get the feeling of saturation that I don’t get with too hot or too cold drinks, although I enjoy them too. Many foods are 75%-92% water: watermelon, grapes, oranges But you cannot rely on them alone. Set a timer on your phone to remind you to drink!

Last Saturday was very hot here and we had our choir summer concert. The hall haD about 150 in it and the heat became unbearable. I am usually very careful knowing that those as ancient as me cannot cope with heat the way we used to. However, I had little choice but to stay to the end. That evening and for the next 48 I had diarrhea. I was not aware over heating could cause this until I looked it up on the internet. I had drunk quite a lot of water.

Yes, dire warnings, drink plenty of water etc, but I've not heard anything about taking drinks with added salts and minerals.

Perhaps parasols should come back into fashion.

that's something people might associate with going overseas, esp to the tropics.
but they might not realise such measures are needed here too at times.
i've rarely heard official advice about it.
perhaps it needs more publicity, on daytime tv etc.

welbeck

i wonder if this risk has increased recently as people are generally told to avoid too much salt in their diet. ?

I don't know but I remember shopping for salt tablets (amongst other suitable items) with a friend many years ago before he went to work in Nigeria.

sounds like the sergeant-major type.
i know of someone like that, specialises in putting other people down, and knowing everything about everything.
in her own mind.

Thst particular teacher was well-known in the area, welbeck and universally unpopular with pupils and other teachers. Guide Leader, pillar of the community and local church etc etc.

i wonder if this risk has increased recently as people are generally told to avoid too much salt in their diet. ?

Only 600 mls? As a kidney transplant recipient I have advised to drink 2-2.5 litres a day, 3 when the weather is hot.

I've just had 2 weeks in Turkey, temps up to 39. I felt as though I was floating

SALT is so important.
You are losing it all the time you sweat. Gallons of water and no salt or food can lead to the condition of Hyponatraemia = not enough sodium in the blood.

My daughter almost died in 2022 on the hottest day, 19 July, in the UK. She arrived at the station in Birmingham, couldn't get a taxi, walked to the hotel with luggage.
She drank lots of water but had no food.
That night in the hotel she was found unresponsive in her room after calling 999 earlier.

I was called and saw her in the ICU the next day, she was still confused, and I believe was not actually diagnosed until after that! She was discharged, still not very well, ten days later and had to find her own way back to Carlisle where she was living...

Nowadays I put up a notice in my front garden here when it gets really hot - 'Don't forget to replace salt!'.

and many black women experience this kind of thing in maternity services.
which leads to poorer outcomes for them.

interesting attitude, and not so rarely found unfortunately, for someone in a position of power/authority to dismiss the distress of another person.
i have come across this with some nurses, as if the patient is being naughty or difficult when reporting they are not ok.
which is quite concerning really.

Sports drink are better than just plain water to rehydrate as they contain salts and essential minerals too.

I remember taking DD to compete in an inter-schools sports day at another primary school. She must have been about six and it was a scorching hot day, no gazebos or shade on the sports field. The children were running, jumping etc.
My DD started to feel ill so I took her indoors, gave her drinks and put cold wet paper towels on her head. One of the teachers at that school passed by and was extremely rude about DD, thinking she was speaking one teacher to another about a pupil.
She was ok, luckily but it was quite ridiculous to expect children to compete without any shade being available. We just can't cope with extremes of weather in this country.

Take it easy, Esmay, chores can wait.

Must have been an awful experience, glad you have recovered. 600 mls is not a lot of fluid, just a couple of cups of tea. When the temp goes up so should the fluid. I'm slightly, very slightly jealous though as I have had 1 warm, not hot day, in past couple of weeks.

I went on a walk with my walking group on a very hot day. It was in the evening and I drank before we left and took 2 bottles of water with me. We got three quarters of the way round, we were only going 5 miles, and I had difficulty getting up a short hill. By the time I got to the top I was feeling dizzy and had to stop. By then I had drunk all my water. The leader gave me the rest of her water, one lady stayed with me while the rest went to the end. Then the leader came back in her car and took us home. She very kindly took my dog out and while she was gone I threw up! I slept like the dead and woke up feeling much better. I have never felt like that before or since.

My phone really doesn't know me!

I love in Scotland. Nuff said.☔🥶

I do hope you have now recovered. I used to be the same, I drank and drank during hot days but I still felt drained. I then read about taking electrolyte tablets in your water. When you drink lots of water you wash out all the minerals from your body and they need replacing. Since adding one electrolyte tablet to a 500 mls bottle of water every day I have never had any problems with heat, I can walk around all day with no problem.

My DH suffered Heat Exhaustion recently on the first day of a holiday in Asia. It certainly was scary, he’d been in hot countries before and knew how to look after himself, but this was so sudden. I though it was a stroke!
We headed back to the hotel where we upped the air con, he had a tepid shower, replaced fluid and slept for about 3 hrs.
Fortunately he was recovered when he woke, but we were on red alert for the rest of the holiday. It has curtailed where we holiday from now on.
I wonder if it’s something you become susceptible to with age.