If heat stroke can be prevented by wearing a hat, then from the heat no one is immune. If prolonged exposure to heat, even in covered areas, the body may overheat.
Sunstroke occurs when walking around on the beach without panama, so easily napechet head. A heat - due to overheating in hot weather. Both of these troubles appear equally - pallor, sweating, strong thirst, nausea, vomiting, headache, tinnitus, unsteady gait, dizziness until fainting. This dramatically increases the body temperature, respiration and frequent palpitations.
First aid
1. Place the victim in the shade on skvoznyachke without a pillow and legs bent at the knees and lift. All this will help to ensure the flow of blood to the brain.
2. Water and sprinkle on the face with cold water, put on a wet T-shirt.
3. Influence of 10-15 seconds per point at the center of the ambulance furrow between nose and upper lip; in the center of the folds between podborodochkom and lower lip; pinkie at the root claw (immediately after the periungual roller) by anonymous fingers; on the index in the same side of the middle finger. Finally knead in turn the tip of each finger of the victim.
Water - Source of Life
Drink yourself as much as possible liquid, and the child even more so as the offer (every fifteen minutes) often as possible to drink: to start playing, kids forget about thirst. When dehydration is stopped sweating, brain activity deteriorates, and a person can easily overheat.
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If the ambulance can not be avoided
So, the main distinctive signs of heatstroke:
- pale, clammy skin,
- confusion,
- dizziness,
- headache,
- sweating,
- nausea, vomiting.
For more severe symptoms (loss of consciousness, vomiting, abnormal heart operation), an urgent need to call an ambulance! Before the ambulance arrival, move the victim to a room where there is a draft. Undress, change as often as possible cold compresses. It is important to drink 1-2 glasses of water at room temperature. And to make up for the lost nutrients in sweat, it is necessary to drink any drinkContaining electrolyte solution. This is sold in any drugstore.
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