How to deal with summer heat stroke
4hw.org: it's hot in summer. If you don't take measures to cool down and prevent heatstroke, it's easy to get heatstroke. If you can't deal with heatstroke properly, it will cause more trouble. Then what should you do if you encounter heatstroke suddenly? What are the first aid tips for heatstroke in summer? Let's have a look with Xiaobian
How should summer heatstroke be treated first aid?
The onset of heatstroke is acute, most patients have dizziness, dizziness, headache, nausea, chest distress, irritability and other precursor symptoms. According to the degree and characteristics of the disease, heatstroke can be generally divided into three categories: first, it is premonitory heatstroke, which is manifested as a large number of sweating, thirst, dizziness, tinnitus, chest tightness, palpitation, nausea, weakness of limbs and other symptoms.
It's the hottest dog days of the year, and the number of people who feel ill due to improper exercise has increased significantly. Experts remind that the intensity of exercise in the dog days should be appropriate to prevent heatstroke due to high temperature exercise. How should summer heatstroke be treated first aid?
Moving: quickly lift the patient to a cool and ventilated place, make him lie on his back and unbutton his clothes, loosen or remove his clothes. If the clothes are wet with sweat, replace them for cooling. Cover the head of the patient with cold towel, and then use alcohol, white wine, ice water or cold water to wipe the whole body and then use a fan or electric fan to blow, so as to accelerate the cooling;
But don't quickly lower the temperature of the patient. When the temperature drops to below, stop all strong cooling measures such as cold compress to replenish the water. When the patient is still conscious, he can give some cool drinks. When replenishing the water, he can add a small amount of salt or sodium bicarbonate water, but don't rush to replenish a large amount of water.
Wake up promotion: if the patient has lost consciousness, he can pinch the acupoints in the human body, Hegu, etc. to make him wake up and transfer the first-aid measures for heatstroke. For the patients with severe heatstroke, he must be sent to the hospital immediately for diagnosis and treatment. When carrying the patients, he should use stretcher to transport them. It is not allowed to use ice bags to cover the forehead, back of pillow, chest, elbow socket and thigh root of the patient as far as possible during the transportation on foot, and actively cool down the temperature 。
Transfer: for patients with severe heatstroke, they must be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately. Patients should be transported by stretcher instead of walking. Meanwhile, ice bags should be applied to the forehead, back of pillow, chest, elbow socket and thigh root of patients as far as possible during the transportation, and physical cooling transfer should be carried out actively.
For patients with severe heatstroke, they must be sent to the hospital for treatment immediately. When carrying patients, stretcher should not be used to transport patients on foot. At the same time, ice bags should be used to cool the forehead, occipital back, chest, elbow socket and thigh root of the patient.
What can you eat in hot weather
1. In summer, the vitamin requirement of human body is twice or more than that of the general standard. Therefore, we can eat more fresh vegetables and fruits.
2. In summer, protein supplement consumes a lot of nutrients and has a strong metabolic function. Therefore, we should often eat foods rich in high-quality protein and easy to digest.
3. Drink more soup. When people sweat more, body fluid loss is larger, drink more soup can not only timely supplement water, but also conducive to digestion and absorption. Simple and easy to learn 'heatstroke prevention soup' such as hawthorn soup, mung bean and sour plum soup, honeysuckle soup, watermelon and Cuiyi soup, etc.
4. Drink more tea. The researchers measured that warm tea can reduce skin temperature by 1-2 degrees on hot days, while cold tea can only cool the oral area. Tea drinkers feel cool and comfortable, and their thirst disappears completely, while those who drink cold drinks are not smooth, and their thirst does not disappear. High temperature operators, if they can properly add some salt to warm tea to make up for the lost salt due to excessive sweating, will be more beneficial to prevent heatstroke.
5. Eat more porridge. In the hot summer, people's intestines and stomachs will be stimulated by the summer heat, and their functions will be relatively weakened, which will easily lead to head fatigue, loss of appetite and other discomfort, and even heat stroke. Therefore, summer health porridge is one of the dietary conditioning measures, such as mung bean porridge, honeysuckle porridge, mint porridge, lotus seed porridge, lotus leaf porridge, lotus root porridge, etc.
6. Eat more vegetables. It's hot and humid in the day. People generally like to eat light and delicious food without being greasy. Green vegetables have this characteristic, and they are rich in vitamins and mineral elements. Therefore, we should try to eat more vegetables, such as beans, melons, cabbage, coriander and so on. It can be eaten raw with cold sauce or fried with a little thin shredded meat.
7. Eat more fruits. The fruit is juicy and sweet. It can not only stimulate the body fluid to quench thirst, but also clear away heat and heat. Watermelon is sweet, juicy and cool. It is the first melon to clear summer heat and quench thirst. In addition, cantaloupe, cucumber washed after raw food, or juiced after drinking, have a very good heat effect. Kiwifruit contains a lot of vitamin C, which has a very good heat clearing and heat relieving effect. It is the fruit and drink often used by high temperature and field workers.