Blood clots: Risk factors may include hot weather

When it leads to heat stroke, it will cause swelling in the lower limbs, heat rash on the neck, cramps, headache, irritability, lethargy and weakness.

Doctor Bharat Pankhania, a senior clinical lecturer at the University of Exeter Medical School, explained: “When your body temperature rises and rises, your system starts to go into a vicious cycle.

“You get cardiac insufficient, brain insufficient, and there aren’t enough fluids.

“If you haven’t kept hydrated, your blood gets sticky and that sticky blood forms clots.

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