Where are when does heat illness occur?
Heat illness can occur whenever and wherever the environment you’re in is excessively hot. There is no “official” temperature at which heat illness is most likely. Rather, a combination of factors contribute to an individual’s risk for heat illness. These factors are: • Your activity level when outdoors. For instance, a 30-year-old man who is in the middle of a 10-mile run is at a greater risk for heat illness than a 30-year-old man doing Yoga on his front lawn. • Your fluid intake. Using our example above, the odds of heat illness in our two men may be equal, or even reversed, depending on their fluid intake. Imagine our runner is taking frequent, regular breaks to cool down and drink some Gatorade. He’s is good shape, and by keeping his body well-hydrated, he’s greatly reducing his risk of heat illness. On the other hand, our Yoga man, while in good shape, has been doing his exercises for some time now and hasn’t stopped once to take a drink of anything. He’s expending energy, heatin
