csutherland
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Does anyone have knowledge of whether a single episode of heat exhaustion can cause lingering after-effects for weeks? My daughter's mother-in-law is 66, EXTREMELY fit, healthy and active. She was mowing her large yard a couple of months ago and got sick, was taken to ER and diagnosed with probable heat exhaustion.
Since then, she has gone from bad to worse. Weakness, fatigue, depression, negativity, afraid of being alone to the point of not wanting to go back to her home. This is highly unusual. She's a widow living alone and liking it, normally tireless, taking exceptionally good care of the house and large yard and flowers, etc.
She has been checked from top to bottom for everything imaginable. My daughter says this is not the mother-in-law she's known for over 20 years. We've researched heat exhaustion and heat stroke on the web but nothing is ever said about lingering symptoms. (In fact more things are being added all the time to the list of symptoms)
Thoughts, anyone?
Since then, she has gone from bad to worse. Weakness, fatigue, depression, negativity, afraid of being alone to the point of not wanting to go back to her home. This is highly unusual. She's a widow living alone and liking it, normally tireless, taking exceptionally good care of the house and large yard and flowers, etc.
She has been checked from top to bottom for everything imaginable. My daughter says this is not the mother-in-law she's known for over 20 years. We've researched heat exhaustion and heat stroke on the web but nothing is ever said about lingering symptoms. (In fact more things are being added all the time to the list of symptoms)
Thoughts, anyone?