Posted by avid abulia on June 15, 2003, at 16:04:44
In reply to TCA's Photosensitization? Ways to Beat The Heat!, posted by Sunnely on June 15, 2003, at 14:21:06
just a few days ago, i had extreme heat exhaustion, and, like you said, irrational behavior... after drinking a litre of gatorade mixed with a litre of water, i walked a quarter mile to the ER and by the time i got there i had progressed to heat stroke and could no longer remember my name and was so out of it the doctor thought i was on speed and ordered an injection of haldol and ativan. lucky for me, a nurse knew what was going on even if the doctor didn`t and said he was going to put in a TKO line, shot the ativan into me and the haldol into the air when the doc wasn`t looking, and proceeded to let my body draw up 2 litres of physiological saline before i was pronounced okay again. it pays to have friends who are nurses, sometimes.
~AA
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