A woman in her 70s suffered a heart attack and multi-organ failure after experiencing severe heat stroke in a sauna, doctors reported. Found unconscious in her gym’s indoor sauna, she endured a heart attack, seizures, liver injury, and kidney injury, requiring 12 days of hospital care, Sky News reports.
Only around 10 cases of heat stroke linked to sauna use have been documented.
Sauna users have been urged to stay hydrated after a woman in her 70s had a heart attack after suffering from severe heat stroke. Experts from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital described how the patient was in hospital for 12 days after she was found unconscious at an indoor sauna in her local gym. The unnamed woman, who used the gym daily, suffered a heart attack, seizures, liver injury and kidney injury, among other conditions.
Scouted selects products independently. If you purchase something from our posts, we may earn a small commission. I’ve always been drawn to the endorphin-boosting and detoxifying benefits of hopping in the sauna or steam room at the gym (they’re especially soothing for my chronically inflamed sinuses). Unfortunately, I have a very low tolerance for feeling overheated and dizzy—especially when I’m half-naked and surrounded by other gym-goers doused in sweat. When I discovered that at-home infrare
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