Everything About Hyperthermia
Know you that is hyperthermia, Heat flush or Insolation?
Hyperthermia takes place when we are exposed to an atmosphere of high temperatures, having caused a dysfunction in the system thermo regulator, to deregulate the level of liquid and sodium of the body.
To be in an atmosphere with high temperature, lifted humidity, slight winds, underneath the sun hard or to do some work or deport debilitating, lifting in significant form the corporal temperature, incapacitating to the body to adapt to the atmosphere, will be able to happen Hyperthermia. Dehydrated, old, obese, sedentary people, no customary people to the heat, little healthful people, people outside form, people very sheltered are more prone to suffer of Insolation.
In case of slight symptoms we can mention: Dizziness, faints, muscular pain, muscular rigidity, excessive sweating.
Serious symptoms (of level II):
Headache, malaise, nausea, vomit, fatigue, lethargy.
Serious symptoms (of level III)
We can say: heating of the body, almost null answer to the stimuli, difficulty when walking or running is some of the symptoms.
What to do in case of Insolation?
1. One takes refuge in a fresh and aerated place (in the shade, in an aerated place or preferably a place with conditioned air).
2. Take off your clothes and refresh (with cold water or providing itself wind with some fan or ventilator to refresh the body).
3. To replace the liquid and lost sodium (it takes cold water, sport drinks that contain sodium and salty solutions).
4. It consults with a medical institution (in cases of serious symptoms of level II and III in which the patient is not able to take liquid by itself, in priority to take it to a medical institution).
What to make to avoid Hyperthermia?
1. It avoids the heat. (It uses hats and it walks by the places with shade).
2. It chooses suitable clothes. (When it is under the sun, it avoids the clothes of black color that absorb in heat. It uses clothes of absorbents. It does not use anything that tightens its neck).
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