I remember salt tablets! We use to take them at summer camp all the
time. I would rather use raw sea salt these days instead of sodium
chloride... isn't that what table salt is? Anyway... just saying...
great idea. I'll try it and see if it makes the place more bearable.
The last heat stroke I had I almost died from. I was jumping in and
out of the pool, after sunbathing, and passed out... in the pool, the
minute I hit the water. Woke up 1/2 way down in the deep end and
floating face down with my lungs full of water. I managed to get out
and cough it up... and crawled into the house and woke up about 8
hours later.

Thanks for the great idea.
Terri


On Jul 8, 2008, at 11:05 AM, Doug Fairchild wrote:

>
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Terri Chicko wrote:
> [----------]
>> I just stay in my cave and rarely venture out in the day time.
>> After my last heat stroke, something happened to my bodies
>> temperature control. Now anything over 70 and I'm way way to hot.
>> I can be quite comfortable at 45 in short sleeves. So this is extra
>> hell for me.
>
> Might not fit you at all, but there is a huge fiction being promoted
> for the past few decades about how everybody should have a low
> sodium intake. It probably works for most people, but some may be
> different.
>
> If so, I am one of those different ones, and from what you say, you
> may be too.
>
> I have passed out a number of times by not keeping my salt level up
> where it needs to be. Once I woke up in bed with blood all over my
> face because I passed out while working on something on the patio.
> Once I got sent to the hospital for an MRI and the whole schmier
> because I passed out in a building in L A and the doctors were
> convinced I had had a stroke, and I had to sign an AMA (against
> medical advice)form to get out of there. I knew it was salt and I
> had been negligent about keeping my salt level up, but they had
> been educated that salt was poisonous.
>
> First time it happened, the doctors were doing all kinds of odd
> things to me. My father took me to his own old time physician, who
> asked: Where do you work?"
>
> "In a big industrial photo studio."
>
> "Is it air conditioned?"
>
> "No."
>
> "Hot enough to make you sweat?"
>
> "Oh, yes."
>
> "OK. Take plenty of salt and come back if that doesn't help."
>
> My tolerance to heat increased 700%.
>
> Later, in Infantry Basic out in the desert near El Paso, with 115
> degrees in the shade and no shade for miles, there were so many guys
> dropping like flies that they followed us on marches with two
> ambulances to pick them up. But I took my salt and never had any
> trouble.
>
> It was just salt depletion. Makes you woozy. Makes you faint. Can
> even kill you. That's what heat stroke is. "Sunstroke" is something
> else. It is your brain getting cooked from not wearing a hat. But
> Heat Stroke is salt depletion.
>
> Try this: get some salt tablets if you can find them. You can order
> them online if you can't locate them in Tucson. Take them with a
> bit of juice or food, although good salt tablets have some sugar in
> them to prevent just plain salt from upsetting your stomach. Just
> plain salt hits the stomach kind of hard even if you need a
> tablespoon of it, so if you can't find the salt tablets, and plain
> salt does that to you, take plain salt stirred into some good
> VeriVeggie, V8 or other vegetable juice blend. It makes fruit juice
> taste awful, but it goes with vegetable juice pretty well.
>
> Take a bit of Potassium tablets along with it. Sodium and Potassium.
> You need both. Don't take my word for it, I am not a physician.
> Just look it up on the web if you need medical advice.
>
> But I have lived in some blazingly hot places and it always worked
> for me, and I always had trouble when I neglected it.
>
> ... Doug
>
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