While most enjoy the summer sun, high temperatures can pose a significant risk to health.
What are the risks?
Under normal circumstances şartlar the sweat we produce when we get hot keeps tutmak us cool serin when it evaporates buharlaşmak from the surface yüzey of our skin.
However ancak, on extremely fazlasıyla hot days, or when we over-exert aşırı güç kullanmak ourselves, this system can fail, and body temperature can start to climb to dangerous levels.
This leads to heat stroke güneş çarpması or exhaustion dermansızlık. This can cause headaches,dizziness baş dönmesi and muscle cramp kasılma, but it can also be life-threatening hayatı tehdit eden.
It is particularly özellikle dangerous because symptoms can come on very rapidly, and -unless medikçe. you are watching for the signs - with very little warning.
What is the best way to avoidkaçınmakproblems?
Drink lots of liquidssıvı:
As you will be losing more fluid sıvı than normal, it is important to top up doldurmak your supplies yerine koyma.
The best way to keep yourself hydrated is to drink water, and to sip yudumlamak it, rather than gulp yutmak it down.
On an average day, a person weighing 58kg (128lb) should drink eight average-sized glasses of water.
In very hot weather,consumption tüketim should be increased. However, drinking excessive aşırı amounts can bring problems of its own.
You might think a cold beer is exactly tamamen what the doctor ordered, but in fact, alcohol dehydrates the body, and consumption should be kept to a minimum.
If you can't face drinking lots of water, non-carbonated soft drinks, such as fruit juice, are a reasonable makul alternative.
Modify your diet:
Avoid hot, heavy food.
Eat cold foods, particularly salads and fruit with a high water content.
Salt pills are available to replace yerine koymak minerals lost in the sweat. However, most diets contain more than enough salt, and so this is unlikely olası olmayan to be necessary gerekli.
Stay out of the sun:
The sun is at its most dangerous between 11am and 3pm.
Be sensibleduyarlıabout exercise:
Do not exercise vigorously kuvvetlice during the hottest times of the day.Instead yerine, run, jog or exercise closer to sunrise or sunset.
Take things slowly and adapt to the pace of life in the sun. If you feel breathless or your heart is pound hızla çarpmak, stop what you are doing and try to cool your body down, for example, by taking a cool shower.Rest dayanmak if you feel faint or dizzy.
Keep cool:
Wear light, loose-fitting clothing, such as cotton, so sweat can evaporate.
Dark, heavy clothes absorb emmek heat, but remember that some thin ince materials do not provide sağlamak a barrier sufficient yeterli to the sun's dangerous UV rays.
Wear sunglasses to protect korumak your eyes.
Take a cool shower, bath or body wash.
Sprinkle serpmek water over the skin or clothing, or keep a damp nemli cloth on the back of your neck.
Ventilatehavalandırmakyour home:
if the external dış temperature is close to or less than internal iç temperatures, all windows, and internal doors should be fully opened.
This helps the natural ventilation to remove heat and increases internal air movement.
Use a fan or air conditioning if you have it.
But, turn off nonessential lights and electrical equipment as they generate meydana gelmek heat.
Take specialözel carebakımof the vulnerablesavunmasız:
Those most at risk from the sun include kapsamak children under four, people over 65 whose bodies adapt uyum sağlamak more slowly to the change in temperature,overweight kilolu people whose bodies tend to retain tutmak heat more and people who are ill.
Babies are particularly vulnerable to heat as their sweat glands beze are not well-developed.
It is important not to wrap sarmak them up in blankets or heavy clothing when it is hot - but it is equally eşit ölçüde important to ensure that they are not exposed maruz to direct sunlight.
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