What to do if you think someone has heat tiredness or heatstroke
Getty imagesDuring hot weather, it can be easy to overheat.
Although heat tiredness is usually not severe – as long as you can cool yourself – Heatstroke is a medical emergency that requires immediate treatment.
What is the difference between heat tiredness and heatstroke?
heat exhaustion It happens when your body becomes very hot and struggles to regulate its temperature.
A clear indication is excessive sweating, as well as feeling very hot and unwell – which is your body warning, which warns you to cool down, to cool down.
Other symptoms include:
- Headache
- Dizziness and confusion
- Hungry
- Hand, feet and abdominal cramps
- Rapid breathing or pulse
- 38c or more temperature
- Be very thirsty
Young children, who may not be able to tell you how they are feeling, can be flopped and sleepy.
Tiredness of heat can affect anyone, including fit and healthy people – especially if they have exercised strong in high temperatures or are drinking alcohol in the sun throughout the day.
This can be more than quickly, minutes, or slowly, more than hours.
Heat can turn into tiredness heat strokeWhich is a medical emergency. This means that your body can no longer manage heat and your main temperature is rising too much. You should get immediate medical help.
Signs of watching and working quickly:
- Feel unwell after 30 minutes of resting in a cool place and 30 minutes of drinking a lot of water
- Not sweating even while feeling very hot
- 40c or more temperature
- Rapid breathing or shortness of breath
- feeling confused
- A fit (seizure)
- Lose consciousness
- not liable
Older adults and young infants, as well as people with long -term health conditions, are particularly at risk.
The body’s ability to regulate your temperature is not fully developed in youth and may be less than disease, drugs or other factors in older adults. Overweight or obesity can also make it difficult to cool down.
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If you feel that someone has heat tiredness or heatstroke then what should you do?
- Get them to rest in a cold place – such as air conditioning room or somewhere in the shade
- Remove any unnecessary clothes, as much as possible to expose their skin
- Cool their skin – use whatever you have available, a cool, wet sponge or flannel, spray water, neck and cold pack around the neck, or wrap them in a cool, wet sheet
- While moist, it is moist – it will help evaporate the water, which will help in cooling their skin
- Get them to drink water – sports or rebellion drinks are also fine
- NHS: Heat tiredness and heatstroke
