Dysreflexia

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- October 28, 2003 at 09:15 #7764
  
  Graham – Admin
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  Autonomic Dysreflexia – is a medical condition common amongst quadriplegics. It’s an adverse reaction to many causes individual to each quadriplegic. Causes are many, from extreme temperature changes, bladder infection, to broken bones, internal bleeding. Symtoms are dizzyness, blured vision, sweating etc. but most commonly a pounding headache.
  
  Luckily I don’t experience these often. The other night my first in 2 years. Stuck under the doona unable to push it down I became overheated. 3hrs later I got someone to take the doona off and put the fan on. My headache subsided after 3 days.
  
  My question is – what are the symptoms of heat exhaustion and consequences of cooking yourself internaly ?. I still feel like crap 6 days later.
- October 30, 2003 at 11:38 #10570
  
  Mish Mash
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  surely the symptoms would be the heating of the body from the inside, blood pressure rising, maybe kidney damage, dehydration, exhauston, bladder problems.
  Depends on how bad the symptoms, maybe plenty of ‘water’ and rest. If symptoms are extreme, saline drip.
- November 1, 2003 at 04:21 #10571
  Felicity
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  That’s not good Graybags. I would be trying to find a way to make sure it doesn’t happen again.
  
  Heat Exhaustion:
  Heat Stroke:
  Consequences of heat stroke may include cramping, headache, brain damage, kidney failure and death. Like Mish Mash said you should drink plenty of water and eat a good variety of foods to replace lost salts.
- November 1, 2003 at 05:01 #10572
  
  Graham – Admin
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  Thanks girls, been drinking plenty of ermm.. fluids and feel back up to speed now. I should hook up a buzzer or something but I rarely need assistance through the night. So I’ve never bothered.
- November 1, 2003 at 05:06 #10573
  
  Felicity
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  Glad you’re feeling better now mate. Does beer have salt in it?.. :wink:
- November 3, 2013 at 02:48 #10574
  
  legless
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  Yeah dysreflexia is a bugger and it doesn’t just affect quads. Anyone with an injury at T6 or above may be susceptible to it. I’m a complete T4 and get it though not very often. I don’t get all of the symptoms either. For me the first sign will often be a feeling like a stuffed up nose and the associated dull sinusy sensation. I get the pounding headache due to the hypertensive response and sometimes a bit of sweating. I had an incident several months post-injury due to putting on a uridome too tightly preventing my bladder from emptying. The dysreflexia attack was bad enough that I started convulsing and passed out. It was mainly bowels and bladder issues that caused it in me. It wasn’t until 20 years after my injury that I found out that paras could get dysreflexia. No one told me. It explained a lot.
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