🔥 The UK is heating up this week! As temperatures soar, we're sharing some important reminders for staying safe and well in the hot weather if you have adrenal insufficiency, including Addison's.
☀️ Visit our website for more tips on handling the heat ➡️ addisonsdisease.org.uk/hot-w…
ALT Infographic with an orange gradient background featuring a sun logo from the Addison’s Disease Self-Help Group.
The graphic provides hot weather advice for people with Addison’s disease or adrenal insufficiency, including: stay well hydrated (with water icon), keep your salt levels up (salt shaker icon), ensure your fludrocortisone dose is adequate, beware of light headedness and listen to your body (pill icon), keep alert information, such as steroid cards and medical jewellery, with you at all times (exclamation icon), check if any of your medication needs to be kept at a certain temperature and how they should be stored (thermometer and sun icon), and stay cool, slow down, and keep out of the sun (sunglasses emoji).
Website www.addisonsdisease.org.uk is shown at the bottom.
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Same person but the two sides of my life. Addison's Disease is very rare, life threatening & incurable. Resus trips become familiar to us unfortunately
You never know what someone is dealing with 😊
Really moving before today's game @EvertonStadium as Gary Speed's mum Carol views the new memorial bench in her son's name ahead of Everton v Newcastle
The talking bench encourages people to take time and ask how their friends are doing 💙