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Arapiles Summer (warning nanny-state ahead) 22-Dec-2017 At 5:03:41 PM kieranl

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On 22-Dec-2017 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>On 22-Dec-2017 PeterW wrote:
>>You might want to double check with a quack that it was "only" heat exhaustion.
>(Heat stroke would probably have been worse, and unlikely on a 26C day.)
>Both of those normally only occur when the body temperature exceeds 37C.
>I'd be more worried about something else being the real cause, like maybe
>heart arrhythmia or whatever - I'm no doctor.
>
>+1
>
>Listen to your body mikl, especially when it gives you messages like that...
>I was told by a doctor that an incident I experienced while out climbing
>was probably dehydration and not to worry about it... Subsequently I can
>vouch that it's preferable to do without a cbg/s if there are other alternatives!
>:)
>

Heat stress without the heat? I did promote this as a nanny-state thread so add my voice to the nagging of Mikl : get it checked out.

ps Hope you're going well M9.