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Originally Posted by Packer Fan
It is something northerners don't get - Drink, Drink, Drink WATER. That headached is dehydration and you just need to drink water all the time. It happens up North when it is hot, but it ends sooner so people don't learn. Summers in Florida are actually not that bad if you realize a few things - It is nice before 9 AM and After it rains most afternoons. Evenings cool off also. To me it is a different kind of heat than up North. When it gets to 90 in Wisconsin, the humidity is very heavy (not sure how to describe it) versus in Florida. To me it is harder to breath. I am a road biker, and I can ride in Florida when it is 85, but when it gets to 85 in Wisconsin, I have learned to avoid it.....
Bottom line either way - Drink Water is how you avoid headaches. It can be sinus also, but my allergies are WAY better in Florida than up North....
Ed
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Actually water doesn't cut it as the end all to the FL humidity headaches I get all the time. SALT is. Depending on how much one sweats and barometric pressure changes straight up salt might just relieve a headache. I have lived in tropic weather and FL since 1985. Salt has been my cure ever since moving from New England.
Many say drink electrolyte drinks or that the food they nibble replenishes the salt they have lost. Not so for this person. I carry a salt shaker on my golf cart. I can be inside my house and can feel a barometric change pre-storm. I will take about a dime size amount of salt and the headache goes away. When sweating a lot I will take about a nickle size amount of straight salt w a drink of water. The headache almost immediately subsides (drinking the normal amounts of 8 oz glasses of water throughout the day as well.)
My mom's best friend was an ER nurse. She used to say take straight up salt with water to cure dehydration at home. She would see patients all the time that were dehydrated even after drinking plenty of water and or electrolyte drinks. Too much water only dilutes salt levels in the body. Since the body is made up of like 75% water with a fraction of saline it makes sense. Saline drips is what the ER administers.
My grandfather living in FL used to take salt tablets to combat dehydration after working in the heat and sweating a lot.
Drinks have very small percentages of salt in relation to what one sweats out in the FL heat. The barometric pressure changes may also come into play. Salt works for me but to each their own. I'm not a Dr.