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The Effects of Hyperthermia on the Body
The way we respond to heat is very individual so it's very difficult to say when the core temperature rises you're trying to about 37.4 degrees centigrade but people that are getting increasingly hot they can't find a cool place and if not treated will actually die as a result of hyperthermia. People with congestive heart failure lung failure, diabetic patients with dementia or art time is that every day it's a battle it's a physiological challenge for them now When you throw in an extra sprycer heat and humidity sometimes they can't rise. up then it's looking to increase the circulation of blood around the body because don't forget the convective heat loss gets that blood to
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