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The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends that parents be on the lookout for the following symptoms of heat illness: Feeling faint Extreme tiredness (e.g., unusually sleepy, drowsy or ...
Heat illness is a spectrum of disorders due to increased body temperature. It can be caused by either environmental conditions or by exertion.It includes minor conditions such as heat cramps, heat syncope, and heat exhaustion as well as the more severe condition known as heat stroke. [1]
Summer 2023 saw record-breaking heat, and, according to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, 90% of the 120,000 heat-related emergency room visits in the United States last year took ...
Dr. Kayla Donnawell, an emergency room physician at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City, said staffers are seeing more kids coming in with heat-related illnesses this summer, likely because of ...
Heat exhaustion is a precursor to heat stroke, a severe form of heat-related illness. Heat stroke is more likely than heat exhaustion to cause palor, hot and dry skin, syncope, and dysfunction of the central nervous system (e.g., altered mental status, loss of spatial awareness, loss of bodily movement control, seizures, etc.).
Heat illness is likely to become more common. A study from the National Institutes of Health found that cardiovascular deaths due to extreme heat are projected to increase in the U.S. between ...
Heat stroke or heatstroke, also known as sun-stroke, is a severe heat illness that results in a body temperature greater than 40.0 °C (104.0 °F), [4] along with red skin, headache, dizziness, and confusion. [2]
Heat stress can decrease athletic performance and increase risk for heat illness, which is a type of exertional heat stroke and the leading cause of death of young athletes in the US, says Dr ...