A doctor has warned of a “shower mistake that could happen to anyone” after a young man hit the gym and “almost didn’t survive.”

Dr Aditj Dhamija , a GP in India, shared a case involving a regular gymgoer who collapsed after a jumping into a hot shower immediately after an intensive workout.

But the regular post-gym habit put him in intensive care, with the doctor claiming “the patient barely escaped death”.

“A 24-year-old man hit the gym like every day … but when he didn’t come out of the bathroom for 30 minutes, the door had to be broken down,” Dr Dhamija explained in an Instagram video. 3

“He was found unconscious on the floor, pulse barely there.”

Once in the emergency room, he was put on a ventilator.

Dr Zac , a leading Australian GP, notes that in most cases, it’s not

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