[at-l] Suz's Sauna

[lthompson at hollins.edu (Lilla Thompson)]

Yup. Well, sort of. It's not a breathing issue, for me.  If I stay in one too long I get nauseous (nauseated? I can never remember).  The same is true sometimes when I take a really hot bath--so now I steer clear of both.  
Okay, Orangebug, what's goin' on (physiologically speaking) here?

Lilla  

I've never been able to *do* saunas or steam baths for that matter. I tried 
a steam bath first (back in the Army). I wasn't in there 2 minutes and I 
ran out gasping for air. I felt like I was drowning, just couldn't breathe. 
Several years later I had the opportunity to try a sauna. I thought it was 
the moist air that had bothered me in the steam room, NOT! It was the heat. 
I had precisely the same reaction to the sauna. I couldn't breathe in 
there. I stayed only slightly longer than I might have underwater and ran 
out gasping for air. Do other people have that reaction to saunas/steam rooms?


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