What is the difference between heat stroke and general heatstroke? I have to say that everyone has been really busy in recent years, and it didn’t take long for us to learn about a disease. No, heat stroke is here again! This thing may not be as scary as COVID-19, monkeypox, and

What is the difference between heat stroke and general heatstroke?

I have to say that everyone has been really busy in recent years, and it didn’t take long for us to learn about a disease. No, heat stroke is here again! This thing may not be as scary as new crown , monkeypox and brain-eating amoeba . After all, it does not have the ability to spread. Moreover, many people equate heat stroke with heat stroke, not knowing that heat stroke has a higher fatality rate and can easily lead to serious consequences if ignored. You can say it is a "large" heat stroke.

The mortality rate of heat stroke is really high, generally between 20% and 70%. However, if you are over 50 years old, the mortality rate is likely to be as high as 80%. You can understand it this way, heat stroke is like a "large" heat stroke, a typical severe heat stroke, the most serious and dangerous heat stroke, different from premonitory heat stroke and mild heat stroke.

To be more specific, if it is just a premonition or mild heatstroke, the main symptoms are usually dizziness, sweating, nausea and vomiting, tinnitus , etc. These two conditions are relatively less dangerous, but severe heatstroke is different. When leg cramps occur, it is heat cramps . When fainting, blood pressure drops, and heart rate increases, it is heat exhaustion .

Once the temperature of a heat stroke patient exceeds 40 degrees, and symptoms such as confusion, coma, and convulsions occur, it is the most serious form of heat stroke. These conditions can be said to be increasingly dangerous. The body temperature exceeds 40 degrees. The longer the temperature lasts, the more serious the damage to human organs.

If a person with heat stroke is not rescued promptly and effectively, the probability of death is extremely high, because it really does not just make you faint from heat, but causes abnormalities in the nervous system and causes damage to multiple body organs. Therefore, when the weather is very hot, if someone around you is unconscious but not sweating obviously, and the body temperature is abnormally high, do not hesitate to seek medical attention in time!

Heat stroke patients have appeared in many places, and some people have died! The mortality rate from heat stroke can reach up to 80%. Why do some people still insist on working at high temperatures for long periods of time?

You should have seen many cases of heat stroke in real life, especially those migrant workers working on construction sites. Whenever summer enters, all workers need to perform high-temperature work, and this is a normal situation.

If there are construction workers around you, you can ask them if they have heard of or seen anyone being killed by heat. The answer to this question is basically yes. Almost every year, I hear from my parents about which construction site near them has someone else. She was so hot that even my own mother would faint two or three times almost every summer when she was working at the construction site.

At this time, don’t ask why the mortality rate of heat stroke is so high. People are still not afraid of the heat and want to work outside? Because this is life, and because migrant workers don’t know much about heat stroke itself, they always feel that heat stroke is not a big deal and can be relieved by taking a little rest.

Recently, heat stroke has appeared in Sichuan, Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangsu and other provinces. Although only a few cases are known to everyone, more than one person has died. West China is a well-known large hospital both inside and outside Sichuan. , but even under such a treatment system, there are still heat stroke patients who die after all-out rescue efforts. This has a lot to do with the speed of the progress of the heat stroke patients.

Let’s put it this way, a person cannot suddenly get heat stroke at a certain moment. It also has a development process, and will develop from the initial sign of heat stroke to severe heat stroke. If timely and effective treatment can be carried out before entering the stage of severe heat stroke, the development of heat stroke can be effectively avoided.

To put it simply, if you are someone who needs to work in a high-temperature environment, you must pay attention to your body changes. If you sweat more, have less strength, feel dizzy and have a headache, then don’t continue to work hard. , find a shady place nearby to rest for a while, replenish salt and moisture. If it is too hot, take off any clothes that can be uncovered. You can wipe it with a wet and cold handkerchief. After all, your body is the most important thing, and you can earn money slowly. , don’t feel that you have been uncomfortable before, just hold on and it will be over.

The internal organs of patients with heat stroke are as if they have been "boiled" in water. Do ordinary people need to be more vigilant?

Although, most patients with heat stroke are caused by working for a long time in a high-temperature environment, and the body cannot adapt to that high-heat and high-humidity environment, such as construction workers on construction sites and young people who perform high-intensity exercises in summer. However, this does vary from person to person. In the same environment, some people may be more susceptible to heat stroke than the average person, such as people with sweat gland dysfunction, people who are overweight, and people with thyroid dysfunction , etc.

When many patients with heat stroke are sent to the hospital, their body temperature exceeds 42°C. When the core temperature of the body is too high and they fall into coma, their internal organs feel as if they have been "boiled" in water.

Don’t think that heat stroke only affects those who work intensively under high temperature, high humidity and windless conditions. There are also people who suffer from severe heat stroke at home and get heat stroke. In the final analysis, it is because they do not pay attention to heatstroke prevention, like those treated in Huaxi, Sichuan A heat stroke patient collapsed while cooking in his kitchen, and a 70-year-old patient treated by a hospital in Zhejiang also suffered from confusion and severe heatstroke while taking a nap at home.

Therefore, we ordinary people should also pay attention to preventing heatstroke, especially this summer. It is really too hot. For example, the heat in Chengdu has reached a new height these days. At least in the more than ten years I have lived in Chengdu, it has never happened It has been so hot at this time, and it has been hot for more than ten days. In the past, such continuous high-heat weather usually lasted for a week, and most of the time it was after Dog Days .

The weather is hot, so everyone must pay attention to preventing heatstroke. Don't leave the air conditioner idle when at home. If there are elderly people at home, it may be difficult to adapt to the large temperature difference between indoors and outdoors. Then you can adjust the temperature to 26 to 28 degrees. Don't let the elderly resist. After all, as you get older, you need to pay more attention and don't think that air conditioning is something to be afraid of.

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