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Heat exhaustion
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Prevention
Unlike insolation, body overheating, and not the direct irradiation of the sun, leads to serious sweating. If this loss is not taken care of, by ingesting liquids, the body can fall into a state of shock. Physical efforts under the midday sun must be avoided.
Symptoms
The heat produced by the body can no longer be evacuated, so temperature rises. The first indications are hot skin, headache, dizziness, nausea and cramps. Consciousness disorders and dypsnea can appear.
Measures for slight cases
Put the patient in a fresh and shaded place; open his or her clothes, fan and moisten the patient with cold water, but without wetting the body. In this situation it is particularly important that the person drink liquids, in the best of cases in the form of electrolytic beverages or black tea with a little of salt and sugar.
General indications in case of permanency under the heat
- Slow movements.
- Dress with light-colored light cotton clothes.
- Use cap and sunglasses.
- Drink a lot of liquids at regular intervals, at least three liters a day, and in the case of harder efforts, even more.
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