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Is heat exhaustion when you don't have enough sweat to cool you?
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Basically yes.: Heat exhaustion occurs when a person exercises or works in a hot environment and sweating cannot dissipate the heat generated within the body. Often dehydration occurs because the person hasn't replaced the water lost by sweating.
Answered 3/22/2012
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How is it possible that many people having heat exhaustion have normal body temperature? Isn't the cause of this illness being unable to cool down?
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When having heat exhaustion, am I ok as long as there is a LITTLE relief while trying to cool down? Or should there still be concern?
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