#Heat illness

[neuroticboyfriend]

summer reminder that if you're heat intolerant or dealing with heat illness, it is okay to take off your mask, if you have to.

it is not your fault that the people around you refuse to wear their mask to protect you, themselves, and others. you are allowed to prioritze protecting yourself from heat illness, especially since heat stroke can kill you... much faster than COVID.

it's not fair at all that you'd have to expose yourself & others to the risk of a COVID infection even more. but it is not your fault. the people around us and the systems that governs us have failed. yet, you're still doing the best you can to be COVID conscious while still taking care of yourself.

that's all you can do. let the guilt go, and don't die from heat stroke. and for anyone who doesn't wear their mask when they can do so safely*: stop being neglectful and mask the fuck up.

*safely as in without distress or illness

[evanoxvt]

Chronic Health In A [Very Hot] Box

Over the past several days I have been progressively starting to feel more and more ill due to the temperature in my room. Symptoms such as dizziness, headaches, nausea (all from getting dizzy with POTS), blurry vision and other visual issues (from my MS), and extreme fatigue (from both MS and POTS). These health issues are all being exaggerated by the heat. It is also becoming hard to eat due to this as well.

I checked the temperature in my room, and it was 86*F/30*C, where I've been laying is 91*F/32.8*C.

You might consider telling me to turn on the AC, a fan, or opening my bedroom door to let the hot air out but these are all problems I cannot change the results of.

The AC is already on. My room is getting cool air, but its very miniscule and barely has a flow. I am already using a fan to help move that slightly cooler air towards me. The only way to truly get the room to cool down is to open the door and let air circulation move the hot air out. I cannot do this however because of my infusion coming up in about a week.

This infusion absolutely obliterates my immune system (it targets and kills a specific cell then prevents it from respawning for a period of time). This means the risk of illness is much more severe for me than most people. A common cold or flu could land me in the ER, phenomena and covid in the hospital for long stays, potentially in the ICU, and sadly even possibly risk my life. This means I cannot afford to be sick at all.

I live with several people, but as most people who are immuno compromised or immuno suppressed, they couldn't care less about their impact on our health. The rest of my house is not safe for me to go into without a mask. If I open my door for long enough to get some air flowing and cool down the room, I'd have to wear a mask in here as well.

If you can, I would really appreciate some help with cooling down and keeping my health in the green/yellow and out of the red. If you have any suggestions for things I can add to help me out I would love to hear them! I recently got a pack of masks from my community and that is helping out alot in keeping me safe while I am out of my room, whether it's at home or out of the house.

Things like the electrolyte drinks will help me retain hydration despite the heat, masks protect me from getting sick when out of my room, cooling items can help with immediate relief, and Jamba Juice gift cards allow me to get cool food.

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[big-ditch-energy]

Having done a lot of manual labor in extreme heat and having taken a whole bunch of trainings on heat illness prevention, I can safely say the only drinks you need to be really careful of when dealing with extreme heat are alcohol, caffeinated beverages (esp. energy drinks), super sugary drinks like sodas and dairy.

Alcohol is massively dehydrating and should largely be avoided even once you're out of the heat--if you do choose to drink during a heat wave, make sure you drink at least one sports drink with electrolytes after and generally make an effort to replace everything you're losing from the alcohol. Especially if you wake up hungover, you need to hydrate and get some electrolytes immediately.

Caffeine is a diuretic, and while I've read conflicting research on if stuff like coffee actually contains enough to completely cancel out the hydrating effect of drinking fluids, you should still be mindful of the fact that caffeinated beverages will either hydrate you poorly or not at all.

Energy drinks especially can be a problem because they also contain high amounts of sugar, and contain enough caffeine to meaningfully raise your heart rate, which can be super dangerous in extreme heat, because heat is already very stressful on your heart because it needs to pump really hard to keep bringing blood to your extremities where it can cool down. If your heart starts really racing when it's super hot out, you need to get in the shade, rest and cool down ASAP, because if your body heat outpaces what your heart can pump out, you can develop heat stroke very quickly.

Super sugary drinks can make you pee more, yes, but it's hard to drink enough of them to meaningfully dehydrate yourself unless it's all you're drinking. You will, however, constipate yourself very quickly if you drink a soda while dehydrated. Trust me, it isn't worth it.

Drinking or eating dairy right before exertion in the heat will make you hurl, especially if you aren't used to exerting yourself in the heat, and vomiting can dehydrate you EXTREMELY FAST. It has been the #1 culprit of people I know vomiting their guts up at work and sports practices. Seriously, just avoid it.

As for what you should do: -ALWAYS bring more water than you think you'll need when going somewhere in the heat. If you run out on a hike or something of that nature, turn back immediately or seek out shade and wait for a cooler part of the day to make the trek back if it's a long way. Running out of water can turn deadly very fast. -Hydrate the night before exerting yourself. Pre-gaming things makes a massive difference. -Try to drink at least one sports drink per day that you sweat an excessive amount. Feeling lethargic and getting cramps are both good indicators that you need to get more electrolytes into your body -Try to check in with yourself every hour or so. Ask yourself if you're still sweating, when you last drank water, if you're thirsty, and if you're feeling lethargic. If you feel at all out-of-it, drink electrolytes and water. If that doesn't make a difference, get in the shade and rest ASAP. -If you're with others, check in with them too! The brain fog and irritability that come with heat exhaustion can make it hard to recognize in yourself. Watching each other's backs is important!

PSA: i keep seeing posts about staying cool in extreme heat that include advice like "gatorade is bad actually!" and "don't drink fruit juice it'll just dehydrate you!" and neither of these are true!

regarding fruit juice: there's apparently a misconception that Any Sugar At All will dehydrate you, and that's simply not true. yes, sugar will make you pee more when consumed in large amounts, but 1) the natural sugar in fruits won't do this to you 2) great news! a lot of fruit juices exist without any added sugar in them! 3) honestly even having a glass of the fruit juice with added sugar won't completely dehydrate you as long as you're also drinking water throughout the day. if its hot you deserve a cold treat of a drink!!! can't go wrong with fruit juice!!!

regarding gatorade: maybe this isn't an every day drink, but guess what: if it's 110F/40C or hotter outside, and you don't have AC, or you're moving around a lot outside of the AC, and you're sweating buckets: that's when you drink a gatorade.

gatorade exists to replenish all the electrolytes (salt) and glucose (sugar) that you sweat out. YES it is meant for athletes to drink during intensive work outs and not necessarily for people who aren't doing that kind of exercise. BUT GUESS WHAT! when you're sweating buckets because you had to walk to the bus in extreme heat, that's intensive exercise. please feel free to drink a gatorade after that! that's its intended use case!!!!

no: neither of these drinks should be a total replacement for water. but drinking a lot of water and then treating yourself to a fruit juice with lunch is a good idea!!! drinking a gatorade becuase you just had to walk for 20 minutes in the heat is a good idea!!!

Please Stop Spreading Misinformation About Drinks!!! It's fine if you drink things that aren't water!!!! Yes you should probably always be drinking water but drinking something else As Well isn't going to hurt you!!!! okay!!!! its fine!!!!!!

honestly so long as you are consistently getting Any (non-alcoholic) fluids in you, you're doing great!!!!!! okay!!!! i love you stay safe <3

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[flamingpen18]

Heat 🥵

This past week has seen very high temps in our area. The heat index went as high as 111. It's been ungodly.

Both my offspring and myself have gotten very sick over the week. @helly-watermelonsmellinfellon and I are covered in a heat rash. We have had no relief from any of it.

Ideally, we should have gone someplace with air conditioning but that wasn't an option. So we have suffered a great deal longer than we should have had to. I am not exaggerating when I say we have all gotten sick.

We have dealt with every one of these symptoms except losing consciousness. This heat is not a joke.

And for those who are insensitive and making comments that 97° is not hot, we do not live in an area that has 90° temps as the norm. Also, we are from PA where we actually get 4 seasons. We are used to temps not going over 85 on average and temps in the teens during winter.

[reconstructwriter]

YES! Also getting heat illness once can make you more vulnerable to subsequent attacks.

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[neuroticboyfriend]

i really appreciate your positivity post about those of us who can't wear masks outside in the heat. i don't know if i have anything diagnosable but i'm definitely disabled nonetheless in such a way that i can't stand outside very long without getting extremely tired/dizzy/sick/miserable/etc. and i feel like i'm very prone to heat stroke due to how physically weak i am by default, especially since my climate is so fucking hot & humid and probably one of the worst such places in the whole country (i'd imagine at least?). it certainly doesn't help that the masks we have that aren't the classic N95s are all... black and absorb the sunlight lol. i know a lot of karens complain that they can't breathe when they have to go shopping for 20 minutes that way and it's pathetic to us but i legitimately feel trapped, panicked, and overheated when i can't breathe freely. it's overwhelming for sure!

yw!! I've been being kinder to myself about it and I still have some anxiety over it, but I wanted to share cuz like. we're the last people who should be beating ourselves up. we cant control that our bodies dont do well in heat, and we shouldnt be risking immediate serious illness or death. and we shouldnt feel ashamed because some comparatively abled people whined and are still whining about masks.

so yeah. i hope you're able to stay cool and safe this summer ♡ and its comforting to know im not alone

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[anotherpapercut]

"summer is the worst" "no winter is!!!" actually both are. down with Big Temperature. spring and autumn for the win

[ashoss]

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[plagalkey]

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[s0fter-sin]

something people just don’t think about is how often chronically ill and disabled people just don’t have access to good food. not healthy food, good food; well made, tasty meals that don’t come from a jar or a freezer. how many of us are housebound or can’t drive? delivery services only offer within certain distances, if you live outside a city they aren’t an option. many people don’t have the energy or ability to cook for themselves if they have the skill to begin with. many certainly don’t have the ability to learn how. it’s something that goes completely unnoticed, just the opportunity to have a good meal and how much that wears you down

[arctic-hands]

I can't find the big post i made about it a couple years ago but now that it's heating up again in the Northern Hemisphere, I just want every disabled, chronically ill, elderly, or medicated person to know that if your city/state sends out an alert telling people to raise their air conditioning temp or stop using it all together in order to ease the power grid in order to help the vulnerable: ignore it. You ARE the vulnerable in question. Don't die from the heat stroke you're at an increased risk for.

For those cooling down in the Southern Hemisphere, the same applies to what temp you set your heater to. Ignore it.