The heat wave in the absence of the necessary precautions can lead to death or serious health complications due to the body or thermal blow, or both, and this healthy waste can affect everyone, and the oldest and children.
In this regard, Dr. Al -tayeb Humaidi, doctor and researcher in health policies and systems, has given preventive directives that must be followed by everyone to face the heat wave and its health problems, without waiting for risk symptoms because of a heat stroke or the packaging of the body such as hunters, stunning, extreme thirst, cardial pain, muscular spasms, Nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, a delium, a crime of consciousness.
These directives are, according to Dr. Humaidi, in:
Drink water and liquids constantly before thirsty, and not be satisfied with water alone, but drink juices and soup and eat fruits and vegetables to obtain mineral salts. Avoid tea, coffee and sugary drinks.
-Preate a “shower” machine gun several times a day for fragile groups when you can dry the body with towels after the bathroom, or, instead, using a water spray or moistened the body directly with water, in particular the face, the limbs and the striker of the body .
Expose the damp extremities to the air, wind or wind from the electric or manual fan, especially for the elderly.
Eat snacks and several times a day and focus on vegetables and fruits to provide the body with its water and salts without exhaustion.
-More the cold of the house during the day by closing the windows to avoid excessive heat from the outside to the house, and open the windows and the door during the night and early in the morning to create an antenna, with the use of the air conditioner if possible to soften the helicopters of heat and air, especially after having obtained the body with water.
-Dey during the hottest moments per day from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., and if necessary to wear light cotton clothes and cotton clothes coloring with a large hat, while avoiding stressful physical activity and in the shade possible.
Do not leave children, the elderly, the patients or the sound of the special needs inside single cars.
-In hospitals, older shelters, etc.: providing air conditioners in their rooms, and that you will be incredible to allocate an air conditioning room, which they alternate for three or four hours for each group to avoid thermal stress.
