Living on a top-floor apartment without central A/C in 90-something temperatures has been a lesson for me in how you can get at least mild heat exhaustion without even really doing much and not realizing it until the symptoms start.
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It’s happened to me here in the DC area a few times … older historical buildings are a lot easier to heat in the winter but not cool in the summer. I’d say in the early 20th century it never got warm enough to need AC.
jul 13, 2025, 3:46 pm • 3 0 • view
Yeah, I spent most of my life living in the South and the South-Midwest hinterlands, so moving to Pennsylvania was...a change.
jul 13, 2025, 3:48 pm • 2 0 • view
I always look for AC in my filters when looking for a place. The article mentions the increase of emissions for using it, but that’s still looking at the problem from a personal standpoint and not a societal one. We still have to live with what we have. We then need to fix the CO2 source.
jul 13, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
I mean, I would love for all tall buildings to have a mix of greenery to pull out the CO2 and solar panels to reduce the use. But I know that’s never going to happen
jul 13, 2025, 4:50 pm • 1 0 • view
I got heat exhaustion on vacation in Montreal last month and it was so nonspecific and weird it caught me off guard
jul 13, 2025, 2:42 pm • 3 0 • view
I get heat nausea during the really hot days since a few years ago. It's absolutely horrible. The only solution to not getting it on the hot days is running the in the wall air conditioners in my house in every room that I have them other than the guest room anyway without being in them.
jul 13, 2025, 2:59 pm • 5 0 • view
This way if I walk through the house in the living room my upstairs office and my bedroom I'm not getting the heat that comes with it. It's literally the only thing that stops the heat nausea. I can usually deal with having it on in whatever room then but not then.
jul 13, 2025, 2:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Whatever room *I'm in that's supposed to say.
jul 13, 2025, 3:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah that’s what happened to me. I blew chunks. Then later on my sweating got dysfunctional, I was sweating buckets and feeling freezing. Crazy
jul 13, 2025, 3:02 pm • 2 0 • view
That's terrible. I have a really bad problem with getting nauseous but I never throw up thankfully so far anyway. I also get nauseous sometimes just for random reasons out of nowhere and I just got some medicine refilled from my doctor yesterday. Just as needed.
jul 13, 2025, 3:03 pm • 2 0 • view
I probably get nauseous sometimes just because of how much caffeine I have lol. But I still love my caffeine. The heat nausea is unavoidable though unless I have the air conditioner on. I can't stand going anywhere where there's no place to cool off. You need to have a place to cool off.
jul 13, 2025, 3:04 pm • 2 0 • view