Environmental illness in athletes

Clin Sports Med. 2005 Jul;24(3):695-718, x. doi: 10.1016/j.csm.2005.03.002.

Abstract

This article examines environmental illness in athletes. Causes, symptoms, and treatment of heat-related illness, cold-related illness, and altitude-related illness are discussed.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acclimatization
  • Altitude Sickness / diagnosis
  • Altitude Sickness / therapy
  • Body Temperature Regulation / physiology
  • Dehydration / etiology
  • Dehydration / prevention & control
  • Edema / diagnosis
  • Edema / etiology
  • Edema / therapy
  • Environmental Illness / complications
  • Environmental Illness / diagnosis*
  • Environmental Illness / physiopathology
  • Environmental Illness / therapy*
  • Frostbite / diagnosis
  • Frostbite / therapy
  • Heat Stress Disorders / complications
  • Heat Stress Disorders / diagnosis
  • Heat Stress Disorders / physiopathology
  • Heat Stress Disorders / therapy
  • Humans
  • Hypothermia / diagnosis
  • Hypothermia / physiopathology
  • Hypothermia / therapy
  • Miliaria / diagnosis
  • Miliaria / therapy
  • Rewarming / methods
  • Risk Factors
  • Sports Medicine / methods*
  • Sunburn / diagnosis
  • Sunburn / therapy
  • Syncope / diagnosis
  • Syncope / etiology
  • Syncope / therapy
  • Tetany / diagnosis
  • Tetany / etiology
  • Tetany / therapy
  • Work Capacity Evaluation