Glossary for Heat exhaustion

Medical terms related to Heat exhaustion or mentioned in this section include:

• Amphetamines -- Teratogenic Agent: There is strong evidence to indicate that the use of Amphetamines during pregnancy may cause a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Autonomic neuropathy: A condition which is characterized by a functional disturbance or pathological change in the autonomic nervous system
• Bell mania: A rare life-threatening neuropsychiatric disorder involving delusions, hyperactivity and periods of fever. Death can occur within days or months without treatment.
• Body symptoms: Symptoms affecting the entire body features.
• Cardiac arrhythmia: The occurrence of an abnormal cardiac rhythm
• Cocaine -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Cocaine during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Dehydration: Loss and reduction in body water levels
• Delirium tremens: A condition which occurs due to the withdrawal of a substance particularly alcohol and results in tremors of the hands and arms
• Diabetes-like symptoms: Symptoms similar to those of diabetes
• Diabetic ketoacidosis: A metabolic acidosis that results from the accumulation of ketones when diabetes mellitus is poorly controlled
• Dystonia: Dystonia is a neurological disorder that causes involuntary contractions of muscles in a repetitive, twisting manner.
• Encephalitis: Infection of the brain (as a symptom)
• Ethanol -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Ethanol during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Fever: Raised body temperature usually with other symptoms.
• Heart disease: Any disease that affects that heart but particularly relating to its own blood supply
• Heart symptoms: Symptoms affecting the heart
• Heat cramps: Muscle cramps related to exertion
• Heat exhaustion: major cause of preventable morbidity worldwide
• Heat illness: major cause of preventable morbidity worldwide
• Heat stroke: it is a life threatening condition. It is hyperthermia in an advanced state
• Heat syndrome: A condition which is characterized by an elevated body temperature
• Heatstroke: it is a life threatening condition. It is hyperthermia in an advanced state
• Hyperthermia: Hyperthermia is an increase in body temperature in the context of an unchanged thermoregulatory point in the brain.
• Hyperthyroidism: The excessive activity of the thyroid gland
• Lithium -- Teratogenic Agent: There is evidence to indicate that exposure to Lithium during pregnancy may have a teratogenic effect on the fetus. A teratogen is a substance that can cause birth defects. The likelihood and severity of defects may be affected by the level of exposure and the stage of pregnancy that the exposure occurred at.
• Malaria: A parasitic disease transmitted through mosquito bites.
• Meningitis: Infection of the membrane around the brain (as a symptom)
• Muscle symptoms: Symptoms affecting the muscles of the body
• Nerve symptoms: Symptoms affecting the nerves
• Neurolept malignant syndrome:
• Obesity: Excessive body weight especially fat.
• Parkinson's Disease: Degenerative brain condition characterised by tremor.
• Pheochromocytoma: pheochromocytoma is a rare tumor that usually starts in the cells of the adrenal glands
• Prostration: Extreme exhaustion and fatigue.
• Scleroderma: A rare, progressive connective tissue disorder involving thickening and hardening of the skin and connective tissue. There are a number of forms of scleroderma with some forms being systemic (involving internal organs).
• Sensation of intense heat: major cause of preventable morbidity worldwide
• Sensations: Changes to sensations or the senses
• Sepsis: The presence of microorganisms in the blood circulation
• Septic shock: serious medical condition caused by decreased tissue perfusion and oxygen delivery as a result of infection and sepsis, though the microbe may be systemic or localized to a particular site
• Skin conditions: Any condition that affects the skin
• Status epilepticus: A condition which is characterized by a continuous series of generalized tonic clonic seizures
• Sunstroke: body's heat regulation system fails due to exposure to higher temperatures
• Temperature symptoms: Abnormalities of body temperature including fever.
• Typhoid fever: Fever from bacterial food poisoning.

Conditions listing medical symptoms: Heat exhaustion:

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Conditions listing medical complications: Heat exhaustion:

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