Post by Yoris on May 15, 2019 3:46:20 GMT -7
For the record, I personally think that the time of year where spring first goes from cold to hot is a really bad time to eat a whole lot of hot pepper powder multiple days in a row. Yes, I did that, and I got some kind of heat sickness.
So, yeah, in my area, a lot of people have been experiencing heat sickness symptoms with the change in climate. Don't get me wrong, it gets a whole lot hotter here than it has been the last few days, but this time of year is probably one of the most dangerous, since people's bodies are still in winter/spring mode, and not everyone has their air conditioners running, since it's still spring and all. It's only been about 90° F. (but quite sunny). Anyway, some symptoms in the area here I've heard about (and/or witnessed) include seizures, fainting, cramps, headaches, fatigue, and other stuff. I kind of thought it was a weird virus going around at first (I didn't realize it was heat sickness). I just got fatigue, headaches, nausea and stuff, and I actually got tired at a decent time (usually I don't), although I felt ill along with being tired (and I got tired other times, additionally).
Anyway hot peppers don't cause heat-like damage in and of themselves, as I understand it, but they make the body think it's hot, and the body can respond accordingly (which can still cause physical issues). Whatever the case, you probably don't want your organs to think they're extra hot when it's already hot, if you're not acclimated. You don't need 800k SHU meals every day. :) That's just a made up SHU, which probably doesn't match what I ate exactly, especially as I added blue agave sweetener to each meal, and cheese to one.
Once I realized it was heat sickness, I drank a bunch of water and forced myself to eat a bunch of food, even though my stomach didn't feel like it wanted food. The reason I did this was to get the capsaicin from the hot peppers out of my system faster. (It's hard to go no. 2 very often when you're not eating anything.) It worked, and I felt a lot better. Well, ceasing to eat large amounts of extra hot chile powder probably helped, too. Drinking some Gatorade made me feel better, but I already felt considerably better by the time I had some Gatorade.
The weather is supposed to be cooler for the next ten days or so.
It should be noted that allergy symptoms have probably been going around, too. The pollen count is probably pretty high (at least from the lilacs; its probably other things that would cause allergy symptoms, I'm guessing).
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So, yeah, in my area, a lot of people have been experiencing heat sickness symptoms with the change in climate. Don't get me wrong, it gets a whole lot hotter here than it has been the last few days, but this time of year is probably one of the most dangerous, since people's bodies are still in winter/spring mode, and not everyone has their air conditioners running, since it's still spring and all. It's only been about 90° F. (but quite sunny). Anyway, some symptoms in the area here I've heard about (and/or witnessed) include seizures, fainting, cramps, headaches, fatigue, and other stuff. I kind of thought it was a weird virus going around at first (I didn't realize it was heat sickness). I just got fatigue, headaches, nausea and stuff, and I actually got tired at a decent time (usually I don't), although I felt ill along with being tired (and I got tired other times, additionally).
Anyway hot peppers don't cause heat-like damage in and of themselves, as I understand it, but they make the body think it's hot, and the body can respond accordingly (which can still cause physical issues). Whatever the case, you probably don't want your organs to think they're extra hot when it's already hot, if you're not acclimated. You don't need 800k SHU meals every day. :) That's just a made up SHU, which probably doesn't match what I ate exactly, especially as I added blue agave sweetener to each meal, and cheese to one.
Once I realized it was heat sickness, I drank a bunch of water and forced myself to eat a bunch of food, even though my stomach didn't feel like it wanted food. The reason I did this was to get the capsaicin from the hot peppers out of my system faster. (It's hard to go no. 2 very often when you're not eating anything.) It worked, and I felt a lot better. Well, ceasing to eat large amounts of extra hot chile powder probably helped, too. Drinking some Gatorade made me feel better, but I already felt considerably better by the time I had some Gatorade.
The weather is supposed to be cooler for the next ten days or so.
It should be noted that allergy symptoms have probably been going around, too. The pollen count is probably pretty high (at least from the lilacs; its probably other things that would cause allergy symptoms, I'm guessing).
[HASH]chilepepper [HASH]heat