I'Ve Fallen and I Can't Get Up: Case Study

He was dizzy and thirsty.

Yes, she was right when she said that he was dehydrated. He was saying that he was dizzy, very thirsty, and he passed out in the heat. She also could tell he was dehydrated by pinching the skin on his hand to check the elasticity.

When you are dehydrated, your body tells you by making you feel thirsty so that you will drink fluids. Dehydration can also cause low blood sugar, which is the body’s main fuel source, and when your blood sugar is low can make you feel dizzy because the body and brain needs glucose to work properly. It can also decrease your blood pressure because the amount of fluid in your blood is reduced which makes you more susceptible to fainting.

No she wasn’t correct. If he has fainted before, and is still having the same symptoms of severe dehydration, then he needs to be checked out.

When he woke up that morning he was dizzy and had no appetite. During practice he was very flushed and sweating like a pig.

He might’ve been showing these symptoms because he didn’t eat anything before practice or even for the game, all he had was coffee, and he also partied the night before, which could make him feel bad.

I think the doctors will not only find that he is dehydrated, but that he has a concussion from the hit he took on the field.

If I was a doctor, I would run an MRI to check and see if he has any trauma from his concussion. I don’t think there would be any severe trauma since he was wearing protective gear. I would also check his blood pressure because low blood pressure could be the cause of fainting and feeling dizzy. I think his blood pressure would be lower than the average measurement.

Greg feels weak and has a very bad headache. When he told the doctor he was feeling dizzy and seeing flashing lights his heart rate only increased to 60.

Baroreceptors are located along blood vessels and relay information to the brain when any change to blood pressure occurs so that it can try to maintain normal blood...