Sunstroke

Sunstroke

Sunstroke is a kind of the abnormally high temperature in the human body, so this temperature reaches about 40°C and maybe more, and is accompanied by many symptoms that are obvious in the body, nerves and many other symptoms, as the sunstroke is considered an emergency incidental condition, it needs to Immediate first aid, to reduce the appearance of complications and damage to the brain or damage to the organs of the body, and cause death

Symptoms and causes of a sunstroke

Exposure to sunstroke has serious symptoms on the human body and before you know the symptoms we should know the cause of this build-up of this heat in the human body due to two reasons

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 The human body produces heat inside it through a process called metabolism, and the body can dissipate this heat in the case that is not affected by the sunstroke and this heat is discharged in two ways

 Discharge through radiation through the skin*

Or by sweat that appears outside the skin by evaporation*

But in cases of injury and exposure to high temperature or humidity in summer or extreme fatigue and stress under the hot sun heat, the body cannot discharge this excess heat, which leads to a higher temperature of the human body and may sometimes reach 41°C 

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  Dehydration: Dehydration is a rapid cause of the sunstroke, due to the fact that a person who suffers from dehydration cannot sweat as the normal person because he is unable to get rid of excess heat in his body, which increases the temperature in his body

Symptoms of sunstroke

Very similar to the symptoms of heart attacks or other conditions of the disease, humans are often exposed to symptoms of heat increasing, before the condition reaches the sunstroke, and includes

 Feeling nauseous and vomiting, feeling stressed especially in walking. Feelings of weakness and headaches. Feeling contractions and muscle pain. Many people enter into the symptoms of sunstroke, as the symptoms of sunstroke include the following: a noticeable rise in body temperature not to appear sweat, this is usually the first symptom of a rise in temperature, the skin becomes inclined to dry if the sunstroke is caused the high-temperature, but if the cause is stress and fatigue the skin becomes wet

 Severe acceleration in the heart rate although the blood pressure remains at its normal rate, but the speed of the heart rate increases until it reaches 130 beats or more per minute, as this is higher than the normal rate at which the heart rate is between 60 to 100 beats per minute normally, due to this Higher body temperatures significantly increase the burden on the heart because the heart exerts itself in reducing it. The speed of breathing is great, which makes breathing superficial. A person may experience seizures that are very similar to epileptic seizures, He may enter a coma that he or she loses consciousness or becomes hallucinating and becomes difficult to pronounce. Feeling severe muscle pain, the person feels pain and contractions in his muscles at the beginning of the feeling of sunstroke, but the muscles then become stiff or relaxed 

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Complications and factors that increase the incidence of sunstroke. All people in all environments are prone to sunstroke but there are occasional cases in humans of several factors, namely

Human age, the ability of person whether small or large in adapting to extreme temperatures in its effect on the nervous system, and since this nervous system did not complete maturity in children as in the youth group, as it also begins to weaken in the elderly, the rate of exposure to children and older people are more than the young, otherwise these two groups also have difficulty keeping moisture well in their bodies, which causes them to fall into the sun

A person who is a sportsman or who are working outside the home causes them to be subjected to physical stress that increases their risk of being caused by the sunstroke. Taking drugs and medications that expect some people to blow the sun like drugs that affect the body's humidity and temperature and how the body deals with high temperatures so beware here to go out in the hot sun that exposes them easily and quickly to the sun. These medications are such as (high blood pressure medications as these drugs that affect adrenaline, drugs that expel sodium and water from the body, and there are medications that treat mental illnesses, such as delusions)

Complications of sunstroke

When a person is in a state of shock, the body is unable to pump enough blood, which leads to damage to some organs of the body that do not reach the blood well, Delays in sunstroke treatment sometimes cause death as the brain is more likely to be damaged by an emergency bulge occurring in the brain and other organs caused by the sunstroke, if patients do not rapidly treat and reduce body temperature this swelling will lead to death.

Treatment and prevention of sunstroke

Treatment is done in two ways:

*Initial treatment in case of unconscious status, the initial treatment: the patient is transferred to a shaded area away from the sun. The paramedic cools his body and lowers his temperature by removing unnecessary heavy clothing.

The body is sprayed with lukewarm water or a relatively cold heat "colder than the body of the infected person" until the skin blisters are stimulated to the secretion of sweat. Ice cubes are placed around the neck area and the underarm area, where there are blood vessels visible on the surface of the skin. Give the injured the necessary fluids and preferably be cold.

*Secondary treatment when he wakes up from unconscious state and will be treated with alternative medicine

reference 

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