Finely-tuned athletes a hot chance of heat exhaustion

By Nick McGrath
Updated February 13 2014 - 7:07am, first published 4:00am
NO SWEAT: Orange  Runners’ Club members Graham Fahy, Sharon Fahy, Lynda Chapman, James Hennesy, John Moss, and Kim Jarvis (front) take on plenty of fluids during their training. Photo: Luke Schuyler
NO SWEAT: Orange Runners’ Club members Graham Fahy, Sharon Fahy, Lynda Chapman, James Hennesy, John Moss, and Kim Jarvis (front) take on plenty of fluids during their training. Photo: Luke Schuyler

FINELY-TUNED athletes are just as at risk of suffering heat exhaustion as the elderly and the infants if the necessary precautions to the extreme elements aren’t met, according to Charles Sturt University lecturer in human anatomy and physiology doctor Bruce Graham.

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