What was this? A heat stroke or something else?!
Question: What was this!? A heat stroke or something else!?
I'm re-asking the question since I only got one answer last time!.
Last fall/summer I was running cross country speed drills (800's)!. At the end of my third I starting breathing really fast (I guess I was hyperventilating!?)!. Then my coach told me to go easy on the last one, and I did on the first lap, but the second lap I starting gunning it!. When I was done my vision had black dots and the whole left side of my body was numb!. You could have drawn a line bisecting my body and the whole left side was tingly from my face to my toes!. I had to keep shaking my left arm!. And I had a really bad headache!. It was about 95 degrees and really humid (end of august in the south)!. Since that was the last run, we went inside after that, and I felt pretty bad for about ten mintutes!. What was this, heatstroke is my guess!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Last fall/summer I was running cross country speed drills (800's)!. At the end of my third I starting breathing really fast (I guess I was hyperventilating!?)!. Then my coach told me to go easy on the last one, and I did on the first lap, but the second lap I starting gunning it!. When I was done my vision had black dots and the whole left side of my body was numb!. You could have drawn a line bisecting my body and the whole left side was tingly from my face to my toes!. I had to keep shaking my left arm!. And I had a really bad headache!. It was about 95 degrees and really humid (end of august in the south)!. Since that was the last run, we went inside after that, and I felt pretty bad for about ten mintutes!. What was this, heatstroke is my guess!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
Answers:
It's difficult to know from your description what exactly wou had!. Ive given a full description of Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke below!.From you description of the left-sided numbness, you may have been dehydrated and could have suffered a TIA (mini-stroke,) But a year after the event, it's really hard to gaive you a definitive answer!.
In heat exhaustion, you sweat profusely!. So you start to lose fluids and electrolytes (like salt, Potassium and Magnesium)!. Potassium is important for muscle contraction and so you feel weak and then cramp up!. The treatment is rehydration with an electrolyte-rich solution!. Either something like Gatorade, or an IV!. Patients present with moist, white, clammy skin!.
Heat stroke is much more serious and potentially life-threatening!. Here, the available fluids have all been used up!. Sweating (and cooling by evaporation) is no longer an option!. Patients present with hot, red, dry skin!. They may be disoriented or faint (that's why it's called heat STROKE) They are in danger of total circulatory collapse or brain injury from excessively high temperatures Above 105 to 106 degrees, you start to kill brain cells and above 107, you die!. That's another reason why it's called heat stroke!. The treatment is to immediately rehydrate the patient and to cool them down!. You can use ice packs in the armpits or groin!. Applying ice to the entire body may actually be very dangerous!. They may start to shiver and actually increase their body temperature! Instead, we used chilled IV solutions, gastric lavage - again with chilled solutions, and cool enemas to bring the core temperature down!. But, of course, not too rapidly or the patient will start shivering!. I have posted a link below!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
In heat exhaustion, you sweat profusely!. So you start to lose fluids and electrolytes (like salt, Potassium and Magnesium)!. Potassium is important for muscle contraction and so you feel weak and then cramp up!. The treatment is rehydration with an electrolyte-rich solution!. Either something like Gatorade, or an IV!. Patients present with moist, white, clammy skin!.
Heat stroke is much more serious and potentially life-threatening!. Here, the available fluids have all been used up!. Sweating (and cooling by evaporation) is no longer an option!. Patients present with hot, red, dry skin!. They may be disoriented or faint (that's why it's called heat STROKE) They are in danger of total circulatory collapse or brain injury from excessively high temperatures Above 105 to 106 degrees, you start to kill brain cells and above 107, you die!. That's another reason why it's called heat stroke!. The treatment is to immediately rehydrate the patient and to cool them down!. You can use ice packs in the armpits or groin!. Applying ice to the entire body may actually be very dangerous!. They may start to shiver and actually increase their body temperature! Instead, we used chilled IV solutions, gastric lavage - again with chilled solutions, and cool enemas to bring the core temperature down!. But, of course, not too rapidly or the patient will start shivering!. I have posted a link below!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
here are a few sites you can check out to see hope they work they compare heat exhaustion and heat strokeWww@Answer-Health@Com
see a doctor!. If the coach doesn't have any more consideration than that for her runner, then i would think hard about doing any more running!.Www@Answer-Health@Com