Arab Weather - Some people may experience sunstroke or heat stress in the summer; As a result of a significant increase in temperature; Especially people who have to work long hours in the sun without taking caution .
What is the definition of heat stroke and heat exhaustion, and how do we deal with each of them?
What is heat exhaustion and how does it happen?
A health condition that occurs as a result of prolonged exposure to sunlight, or because of extremely high temperatures associated with dehydration due to a lack of water and salt in the body, or due to physical exertion under the sun, when the body is unable to cool the body
Video: What is sunstroke and how can it be prevented?
What is sunstroke and how does it occur?
Sunstroke and heat exhaustion occur as a result of direct and prolonged exposure to direct and glowing sunlight at high temperatures, which may lead to an imbalance in the sensitive centers of the brain in general and in the heat regulation center in the brain in particular; It is unable to keep the body temperature at its normal levels.
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Who is most affected by heat exhaustion and sunstroke?
The elderly, children, people with heart disease, diabetes, drug and alcohol addicts who are not used to high temperature conditions are considered the most affected by heat exhaustion and heat stroke
What is the difference between heat stroke and heat exhaustion, in terms of symptoms?
Symptoms of heat exhaustion :
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Cold and moist skin
- feel helpless
- Muscle spasm
- Severe sweating and pallor of the skin
- a headache
- Dizziness
- fainting
- Nausea and vomiting
- Fast and weak pulse
- Thirst and extreme sweating
- Fatigue
- Low blood pressure when standing up
- Loss of appetite and feeling ill
Tips for preventing heat exhaustion
Heat stroke symptoms
- High body temperature over 39 degrees Celsius
- High blood pressure in the first stage and then its decrease in the advanced stage .
- Severe headache and turnover .
- Rapid and irregular heart beats, especially as the condition progresses .
- Skin redness
- Difficulty breathing .
- Sweat secretion stopped .
- Pupil stenosis .
- Severe fatigue and muscle spasm .
- Heat stroke may cause fainting in the advanced stages
How do we deal with heat exhaustion patients?
- Move the victim to a cool, shady place or sit in front of a fan. It is preferable to enter a building with air conditioning .
- He made the victim lie comfortably on his back with his legs raised and covered with a fitted sheet in case he was cold .
- Commitment to drinking water and cold liquids .
- Use various methods to cool the person's body, such as: bathing with water or a cold bath, or applying cold compresses to the skin .
- Loosen clothing for the injured, and ensure that his clothes are light and unrestricted .
- If the person does not begin to feel better within one hour of using the previous treatment measures, they should immediately call an ambulance .
Help the person with sunstroke
- You must call an ambulance or civil defense immediately
- Transfer the injured to the shade and to a cold place .
- Take off a person's outer clothes .
- Keep the victim with his head raised above the level of the body
- Cool the body and head with cold water and compresses .
- Wrap the injured person with a rag or a sheet dampened in water or spray them with cold water constantly
- Or placing the person in a bath containing cold water, while avoiding the use of ice, for fear of contracting blood vessels .
- An air fan can be used to ventilate the injured .
- In case of respiratory failure, artificial respiration should be performed immediately
- Never expose the victim to hot weather or direct sunlight
- If the victim is in an advanced state, nothing is given orally .
- Transfer the injured to the nearest medical center to follow his condition in terms of breathing, pulse and pressure, where doctors give the necessary intravenous solutions, oxygen and treat muscle spasms with the necessary medicines .
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