Heat Exhaustion & Heat Stroke

Heat exhaustion-Basics
http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/heat-exhaustion/DS01046

Definition
By Mayo Clinic staff

Heat exhaustion is a condition whose symptoms may include heavy sweating and a rapid pulse, a result of your body overheating. It's one of three heat-related syndromes, with heat cramps being the mildest and heatstroke being the most severe.

Causes of heat exhaustion include exposure to high temperatures, particularly when combined with high humidity, and strenuous physical activity. Without prompt treatment, heat exhaustion can progress to heatstroke, a life-threatening condition. Fortunately, heat exhaustion is preventable. ---CONTINUED---

Includes:

Symptoms    Causes    Risk Factors    Complications    Treatments and Drugs    Prevention

Heat Exhaustion
http://firstaid.webmd.com/heat-exhaustion

Heat exhaustion is a heat-related illness that may occur after you've been exposed to high temperatures for several days and have developed dehydration, which is an inadequate or imbalanced replacement of the fluids and electrolytes you've lost through excessive perspiration.

There are two types of heat exhaustion:

   * Water depletion. Signs include excessive thirst, weakness, headache, and even loss of consciousness.
   * Salt depletion. Signs include nausea and vomiting, frequent muscle cramps, and dizziness.


Although heat exhaustion isn't as serious as another heat-related illness -- heat stroke -- it isn't something to be taken lightly. Without proper intervention, heat exhaustion can progress to heat stroke, which can damage the brain and other vital organs, and even cause death. --- continued at link, above ---

Includes:

Symptoms of Heat Exhaustion
Treatment for Heat Exhaustion
Risk Factors for Heat Exhaustion
Preventing Heat Exhaustion

Heat Stroke – Symptoms, Treatment and Prevention
https://commonsensehome.com/heat-stroke/

Heat stroke (also known as sunstroke) is the most serious form of heat injury and can be deadly. The CDC states that, “On average, 675 people die from complications related to extreme heat each year in the United States – more than tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, lightning or any other weather event combined.”

These deaths are all 100% preventable, yet every year we lose hundreds of lives to sunstroke when we didn’t have to lose one.

Why do we lose so many victims? I believe it is from lack of education. We need to know the symptoms of heat stroke, who's most at risk, prevention and treatment options.   ---CONTINUED---

a recent article about a recent heat wave reminds us that heat is the #1 killer in many places.
Avian Flu Diary: The Heat Is On For This Weekend

With more than half of the continental United States expecting a scorching mid-summer weekend, it is worth repeating that the biggest weather-related killer in the United States each year isn't hurricanes, tornadoes, lightening, floods or blizzards . . .  but rather heat waves.

In 2015 the WMO (World Meteorology Organization) and the WHO (World Health Organization) issued new guidance on Heat Health Warning systems. From the press release:
WMO, WHO Issue Guidance on Heat Health Warning Systems

Just a note that the article I linked is a wonderful condensation of the dozens of articles he links to.
(Yeah, this would have been better to post BEFORE the summer.
Maybe some of us need to set a reminder for next April, to get ready for the heat