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2nd November 2021, 09:39 AM
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Re: Heat Exhaustion / heat stroke
salt is a fine balance in you system to much or to little is very bad for you? jp
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2nd November 2021, 11:58 AM
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Re: Heat Exhaustion / heat stroke

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John Pruden
salt is a fine balance in you system to much or to little is very bad for you? jp
Exactly John, but how do you work out how much? when it is running out of you as fast as you put it in, literally; on some jobs your boiler suit was dripping by the time you hit the plates at the start of the watch
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3rd November 2021, 12:41 AM
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Re: Heat Exhaustion / heat stroke
You are right Tony, and when up the Gulf you had white edges on your black vests where the salt had leached out of your body.
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3rd November 2021, 05:26 AM
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Re: Heat Exhaustion / heat stroke
Remember going across the Indian Ocean on two pints of fresh water per man per day.
Salt water showers and officers did not need to wear whites in the tropics, we were all in salt white clothes.


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