Heat stroke cramps

Heat stroke cramps, also known as heat cramps, are caused by heavy sweating during intense exercise in a high-temperature environment. Muscle spasms often occur after the activity stops, mainly involving skeletal muscles, which relieves after a few minutes without significant temperature rise. Muscle spasms may be associated with severe body sodium loss (sweating and drinking hypotonic fluids) and hyperventilation. Heat cramps can also be an early manifestation of heat shots. Physical activity-induced rhabdomyospasm caused by excessive fluid intake without sodium supplementation. In a high temperature (38 ° C) environment, when excessive sweating is lost and fluid is only replenished, heat stroke can occur after physical activity. The result is the relative loss of sodium, occasionally potassium and magnesium. Heat stroke cramps are common in manual workers (such as computer room workers, steelmakers, miners), mountain climbers or skiers who wear excessive winter clothing, tennis players and other weekend athletes, and people who are not adapted to hot and dry climates, the latter evaporates quickly Excessive sweating is hardly noticed.

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