After wearing patches at an outdoor church event in 91-100°F heat, someone felt faint with blood pressure at 100/68. The patches aren't the culprit, Speaker B says. Heat exhaustion and dehydration caused it. Drink half your body weight in ounces of water daily, plus electrolytes when sweating.
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I have a question about the effectiveness of the patches. Saturday we had a community outreach at church, and so we were outside a lot. The temperature got up to 100 and— I mean, it got up to 9 with a heat index of 104. Wait a minute, temperature was 91 with a heat index of 105. I got home and I felt kind of washed out, but I, I, I took some electrolytes and laid down. And I still felt kind of funny. So I took my blood pressure. It was 100 over 68. That's very, very low. I had my patches on. Does that kind of heat accelerate the effectiveness of the patches?
Yeah. So whatever is going on with the patches and how your body is utilizing the patches, it is always to bring your body back into homeostasis and balance. So it would never cause an issue or a problem as far as you not feeling well, I would say, or just still feeling like you're feeling the effects of that. I would say it's probably more due to heat exhaustion or if you got dehydrated. Like, that was perfect. You coming home and taking the electrolytes was huge because especially so on a normal daily basis, just for health, all of us need to drink half of our body weight in ounces every single day. And that's without exercise, without sweating. So any type of thing outdoor, heat type of thing, even without patches, that's just a normal thing that we should do. So anytime we add exercise, some type of heat outside, sauna, whatever, swimming and patches, we actually need more hydration and electrolytes especially for that. So, but you can have lingering effects from heat exhaustion or dehydration as well.