Heat Illnesses
Alexis Quiles 4B 01/14/14
What the Number's Mean
- Prevention
- General Causes
- Signs & Symptoms
- Treatment
Dehydration
- Drink plenty of water, avoid caffeine, and avoid alcohol
- When the water leaves the body of great amounts
- Vomiting, sweat, diabetes, burns, and inability to drink liquids
- Drink loads of water until the tongue is not dry
Heat Cramps
- Warm-up and cool-down, before working hard when in high temperatures
- Painful brief muscle cramps
- Painful, involuntary, brief, limits itself
- Rest in cool place, drink a commercial beverage
Heat Syncope
- To much heat by being exposed
- Fainting episode that someone experiences in high temperature environments
- Dizziness, weakness, loss of consciousness,tunnel vision, and pale skin
- Move to shade , monitor symptoms of the condition, elevate legs, and re-hydrate
Heat Exhaustion
- Stay in the heat for large of mounts of time
- Drink plenty of fluids
- Confusion, dark urine, pale skin, and muscle cramps
- Take a cool shower & drink plenty of fluids
Heat Stroke
- Comes over time with all the other heat injuries
- Failure of body temperature control
- Throbbing headache, dizziness, lack of sweat, and dry skin
- Fan air on person, while putting a sponge or hoes them down