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Your answers are on 🔥! These ice bath dunk tanks are for life-threatening hyperthermia at music festivals. Let’s do a little 🧵 on this *hot* topic in #festivalmedicine: 1/#eventmedicine #toxicology
Festival-goers can get way too hot for many reasons—high outdoor temps, dancing in crowds, & of course, recreational stimulants like MDMA, cocaine and/or amphetamines. 2/
MDMA likely causes hyperthermia by ⬆️ CNS-mediated heat generation, skin vasoconstriction (⬇️ dissipation), ⬇️ sensation of exhaustion, etc. So severe hyperthermia is really dependent on ambient temps, other drugs/meds, and activity level. 3/
