It is very saddening to hear about young people dying from “heat stroke” and we should try to not only to seek ways to detect and prevent such untimely deaths but especially to try novel approaches in treating those “fallen” victims.
I noticed that many such deaths do precede with splitting headaches, disorientation and nose bleeds. [...]
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A novel approach to treat heatstroke?
Posted in heat stroke, tagged heat stroke on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Take Magnesium for your well being.
Posted in Health, heat stroke, tagged brain edema, childbirth deaths, magnesium on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yeah. You probably would say that I am being naggy again to harp on the importance of Magnesium again. Well you are right! Anyway, it was because I have borrow this book “The Health Detective’s” from the Woodland Library (written by Nan Kathryn Fuchs, Ph. D) and it seemed to confirm those [...]
US Army Preventive Medicine Chief Warned of Water Intoxication in 2007
Posted in Health, heat stroke, tagged heat stroke on June 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The US Commander of the US Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine (USACHPPM), Brigadier General Michael B. Cates had on 20 Apr 2007 sounded out a warning in his memorandum on “Heat Injury Prevention Policy” for military commanders to be on the alert for water intoxication or hyponatremia:
This was stated in paragraph 5 [...]
Changes in running speed in a 100km ultramarathon race
Posted in Health, Unwise, heat stroke, tagged isotonic, isotonic drinks, osteoporosis, ultramarathon on April 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This article “Changes in running speed in a 100km ultramarathon race” dated 2004 found that the fastest group had a smaller deviation in running speed as compared to the slowest group that had the greatest deviation in running speed is actually quite pretty obvious but the research here does establish my synopsis.
My synopsis here is [...]
Magnesium Sulphate to prevent brain edema (swelling) injuries and childbirth deaths
Posted in Health, heat stroke, tagged brain edeman, Eclampsia, isotonic, magnesium, potassium on April 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In my own course of research on the effect of Magnesium, I chanced upon the compound Magnesium Sulphate (commonly known as Epsom salt) for treating both brain edema injuries and also to prevent child birth deliveries deaths. So what is the link between both supposedly different topic? Well you see, for brain edema [...]
Defibrillator for marathoners to include electrolyte jabs
Posted in Health, Ideas, Unwise, heat stroke, tagged brain death, brain edema, defibrillator, sudden death on April 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As I have often harped on the importance of adequate electrolytes for the health being of the general populace, I often wondered if those running a marathon and being a victim of brain edema through excessive water intake without adequate electrolytes, then using a defibrillator may actually be of no use since that poor guy [...]
