[TFDA] TONIGHT - Forest Hills (Durham) - TGTTF @ 6 PM - If You Think Heat Stroke Is Fun, You'll LOVE Tonight ...
Jim Mallernee
absolutely62 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 5 15:02:34 EDT 2008
is this pick up?
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 2:28 PM, John Eyles <jge at cs.unc.edu> wrote:
>
> > CDC's FAQs about Extreme Heat
> > http://www.bt.cdc.gov/disasters/extremeheat/faq.asp
>
> It is disappointing (but not surprsing) that this link barely mentions the
> need to replace electrolytes (it does, briefly, in item #17).
>
> I've posted this stuff before, but it doesn't hurt to repeat ...
>
> I am very familiar with issues of exercise in extreme heat, having become
> a pretty active Grand Canyon backpacker in my post-ultimate days. There is
> a condition called hyponatremia, which is a dangerous lowering of the
> sodium
> levels in your body (from the Latin "natrium", hence the chemical symbol
> "Na"
> for sodium). It kills more people than dehydration but has symptoms that
> mimic heat-exhasution in some respects. And MDs don't seem to be that
> good
> at recognizing it - they think it's something that just happens to really
> sick
> people in the hospital; I have seem people in the GC who had hyponatremia,
> and
> doctors who happened along the trail suspected hypoglycemia. (At least
> they
> didn't say "dehydration" and prescribe more water, without electrolytes !)
>
> Low patassium can mess you up too. Cramps, for example.
>
> I like to get a thing of Country Time pink lemonade mix (I think it's the
> 8 quart size, maybe the size of a grapefruit) and add two tablespoons each
> of Morton's Lite Salt (half potassium chloride) and regular salt (or one of
> the sea salt type products available at Whole Paycheck, probably has some
> good trace minerals). Put 2 tbsp or so of this mix in a liter of water.
> You'll feel a lot better, I promise. (Bruce Aiken, an artist, aka. pump
> system engineer, who lived along the North Kaibab trail in Grand Canyon for
> 30 years, regularly served pitchers of this mix to passing hikers, and
> probably saved a lot of people).
>
> John
>
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