What should I do to avoid heat stroke?

Summer is a sunny day, and it's a fun season to play in the sun and play sports.
However, if you spend a long time in a hot place, or if you don't take water, you may get "heatstroke" that makes you feel sick.
This time, let's learn how to protect yourself from heat stroke and enjoy the hot summer.

What is heat stroke? & Why is it happening?

   Heat stroke is a hot and humid summer. Heat stroke is a condition in which you feel sick when you are in a place with high temperatures or high humidity. When it ’s terrible, you ’ll not only get sick, but it can be life-threatening. Let's start with the mechanism of heat stroke.

■ Mechanism of heat stroke

In our human body, "heat" is always created. The heat is removed from the skin and burns to keep it from accumulating in the body. The reason why the human body temperature is kept around 36 ° C is because there is a function that removes the heat inside the body. The function that regulates body temperature, which is inherent to the human body, is called "temperature regulation function".

However, if you stay in a place where the temperature is high or where the humidity is high, the body temperature control function will not work and you will not be able to remove the heat inside your body. The body heats up, the body heats up suddenly, and a lot of blisters suddenly occur, losing moisture and salt in the body. And I gradually get sick and have various symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, and nausea.

■ When is it easy to get heat stroke?

Heat stroke is likely to occur mainly in places with high temperatures and high humidity, but let's take a closer look at them. For example, when you are playing outside, waiting for a bus or train, weeding in the garden, or staying in the sun all the time, you need to be especially careful.
Even if you are in a room with high temperature and poor ventilation, even indoors or at night, be aware that heat stroke can occur.
When you're outside, it's important to rest in a well-ventilated or well-ventilated place, and when you're at home, use an air conditioner or a spring to lower the room temperature and humidity. And do n’t forget to “take water”.

What happens to the body when it comes to heat stroke?
When you get a heat stroke, you feel sick and have various symptoms. What are the symptoms? What weird thing will it be? Let's be careful not to get heat stroke.

■ Slight symptoms

“Dizziness”
“Standing dizziness” = state of fluttering.
It happens when there is not enough blood to reach the brain.

Muscle pain (muscle pain) and muscles that make muscles (kinkin)
harder are in a state of “returning”.
It can happen when you don't have enough salt in your body.

■ Slightly severe symptomsp

You may have headaches, aching, irritation, irritation,
or irritation.
Your body may get loose and you may lose your power.

■ Very serious symptoms

Even if
you speak or shake, such as disturbance of consciousness, convulsions, fainting, etc. , the reaction is not clear.
Your body may crawl and become unable to walk.

When
you touch the body, you feel "hot".

■ Other symptoms / heatstroke signs

It becomes impossible to get rid of it / breathing becomes shallower and faster / skin becomes red and hot / it becomes impossible to drink water / complexion (whiteness) /
limbs shake etc.

What should I do to avoid heat stroke? 

■ Points to avoid heat stroke


・ Drink water frequently

Try to drink “water” whenever possible. And try to drink “water” little by little before you feel “I feel sick”.
If you drink a lot of tea or coffee, be aware that the “diuretic effect” of trying to urinate can be activated and the body's water may become insufficient.

・ Let's take salt as well as moisture

If you make a short cut, the salt needed to get your body going will also go out of the body with the dry. It ’s important to eat well every day and keep salt. If you have a lot of baldness, you can also have a sports drink. However, drinking too much is not good.

.please do not force yourself if you not feeling good

Heat stroke is easy to happen when your body is weak, so it is important not to overdo it.
When you are tired or sleeping, do not go outside and take a rest slowly.
If you feel sick while you are out, try to rest in a nice place such as sunshade.

・ Let's devise clothes for going out

Choose the clothes you wear when it ’s hot, “pass through the wind,” “purge,” or “quickly fast.” When you go outside, wear a hat.

・ Use an air conditioner

Even if you are in the house, if it gets hot and you get hot, use an air conditioner or a blown lip to lower the temperature and humidity of the room and create a flow of wind so that it is as tin as possible. However, if you make it too stiff, you will not be able to adjust your body temperature well, and you may feel sick when you go outside.

■ What if I have heat stroke?

If you get a heat stroke, it's important to move to a rustic room and take a rest. Then, use a fan or senpuki to blow the wind on your body to remove the heat accumulated in your body. And it is important to take moisture and salt.

Try to get a little water with a little bit of salt or a sports drink. If there is ice or “cold ice” on the spot, be sure to put it on a towel and place it on your neck or armpit.

If you don't respond to your voice or your body is shaking, it's important to rush to see it at the hospital.

   
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