CNN —When Adelaide Saywell posted on TikTok last month that SSRIs, a commonly prescribed antidepressant medication, could make people more vulnerable to heat, it went viral and sparked a deluge of comments.
Adelaide Saywell received a flood of surprised comments when she posted about the link between SSRIs and heat intolerance.
Dehydration puts people at risk of heat exhaustion and, in particularly severe cases, heat stroke, which is dangerous and potentially deadly.
Sondeep Shankar/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesScientists and doctors are still trying to unpick the complex relationship between SSRIs and heat.
It is partly the reason why medical professionals don’t always talk about heat when they prescribe these anti-depressants.
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