Heat Stress & Sports

28th November 2013

With the warmer summer months coming heat stress becomes an issue that all athletes exercising should be aware of. Heat stress occurs when sweat canâ€™t evaporate fast enough to keep the body sufficiently cool. Many of the symptoms occur as a result of excessive loss of body salts and water.

At rest and in comfortable temperatures, a person sweats about two litres of fluid every 24 hours. During hot weather (35Â°C), this fluid loss can leap to around 10 litres over the same time period. Exercising in hot weather accelerates fluid loss even more.

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