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Avoiding Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke Overview
Home » Adventure Travel » Avoiding Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke » Avoiding Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke OverviewPosted by Your Guide on March 9, 2006 4:35 PM
It’s 95 degrees outside. You are playing some backyard volleyball or simply laying and relaxing by the pool, getting your tan. Minute by minute you feel something coming on. At first you think it is just that you are getting a little hot, but then you realize that something is definitely not right. You might have started out with just a little extra sun, but now you are moving into a dangerous area. If you play or lay a little longer, this could possibly turn into heat exhaustion. Heat exhaustion is a series of conditions after your body has gotten outside of its equilibrium of temperature. If you continue with the activities, you may suffer a heat stroke. Children are most often prone to these kinds of conditions because of lack of logical thought processes, low levels of tolerance, and/or lack of experience, which would tell them to slow down.
There are many symptoms of heat exhaustion and heat stroke that you should know about so that you will recognize the symptoms when they arise. Hopefully, you will be able to tell the difference between simply getting a little hot and progressing into a minor or major stage of heat exhaustion. There are also ways that you can prevent heat exhaustion and heat stroke from even happing. If someone has already moved into the early stages of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, there are many different things that can be done. This article will address what it looks like and what to do to treat it.
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