What signs show that someone is suffering from heat stroke?

Answer 1

Heat exhaustion

Weakness, dizziness, nausea, and possibly collapse.

Think of it this way, when you get hot, your body responds to try to keep you cool. most often it will sweat to allow heat to escape by evaperation. If the body is not getting replenished with fluids (non-sugar and non-alcoholic) the body continues to use up water internally. leading to the weakness, nausea and dizziness from altered blood pressure and increasing body temperature. The body trying to expell additional heat can cause the body to vomit additional fluid from the stomach (also loosing a liter of two more vital fluid) Without cooling, and replenishment of fliuds, the body will fail to be able to cool itself (exhaust it resources) and more quickly into Heat Stroke.

It is important to understand that people move from being just hot to signs of heat exhaustion at different speeds. Some people's body may respond incorrectly and not sweat in heat creating heat stress and heat exhaustion faster. (Look for people who are not sweating when everyone else is hot.

Myths:

• If you are big and tough you wouldn't get it.
• Some people or races just can't get it.
• Only young or old get it.
• I you drink beer on a hot day you will be OK (Actually you dehydrate faster)

The best way to fix Heat Exhaustion or Heat Stoke is to avoid it in the first place. Keep drinking fluids (water) use shade, take breaks, eat lite snacks through the day. Keep checking all the members of your group, crew, party and insist on people staying hydrated. The co-founder of safetystore.com Steven Hull says about 80% of all people needing first aid (of any kind) had little to no water and or food before the injury.

Heat Stoke

The body now stops trying to sweat and heat continued to climb as high as 104-108 degrees which kills brain cells can move to death quickly. In heat stroke no body can recover without outside emergency assistance. Immediate cooling and advanced monitoring of all body functions is required.

Answer 2

Heat stroke often results from doing activities in excessive heat and without adequate hydration. Different people may have different symptoms and signs of heat stroke. Some individuals can develop symptoms of heat stroke suddenly and rapidly without warning.

Common symptoms and signs of heat stroke include:

• fatigue (not sleepiness though)
• weakness
• a dull persistent headache
• muscle aches, muscle pains, or muscle cramps - often in the legs
• stomach pain (because the stomach is a muscle, too)
• heart / chest dull pain (because the heart is a muscle)
• dizziness, fainting
• the absence of sweating, with hot red or flushed dry skin
• nausea
• vomiting
• rapid pulse
• rapid breathing
• high body temperature
• strange behavior
• hallucinations
• confusion
• agitation
• disorientation
• seizure
• coma

The symptoms can feel so vague, the person is not quite sure what is wrong. It may not occur to the person that he/she needs to go someplace cool / get out of the heat, and that he/she needs to start pushing fluids, especially with electrolytes like Gatorade. Many stronger willed individuals (soldiers, athletes, nurses, EMTs, construction workers, etc.) may try to "soldier through" any warning symptoms, thinking "this weird feeling of not feeling right will pass"-- but the symptoms only get worse, not better. Only when the person gets dizzy, light-headed, or faints, or the muscle pains are severe, does a stronger willed individual finally even mention "I don't feel right". By then, they likely have nausea or vomiting, seem somewhat disoriented, and are entering higher stages of physical distress as shown in vital signs and lab values for blood chemistry.

Answer 3

Heat exhaustion or heat stroke is very serious and can often occur rapidly in extreme situations. Dizziness and weakness are early signs. Late dehydration will actually cause a person's body to stop sweating in spite of the heat.

Answer 4

really? you couldn't just Google heat stroke?

Answer 5

cramps