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Too HOT, I am Not?

Today’s Article…

Touches on a common topic, which can become serious and perhaps deadly, if you do not understand the symptoms and act immediately.

Summer can certainly be one of the most enjoyable times of the year. The memories, growing up on the farm, putting up the hay, milking cows, and a long list of outdoor activities which required hard work, in the heat of the summer. I can remember that, sooner or later, Summer would always get around to turning up the heat. We would always take note, for those hot summer days, the need for putting up the hay, so it would not get rain on or harvesting our grain. We always seem to be working in the middle of a heat wave, at least a couple of times throughout the summer. Yet, our family, seemed to enjoy those days.

Now this article, Too HOT, I am NOT sounds personal… and it is. I have never really been affected by the heat like others in my family. They would always comment…”TOO Hot”. I would say, “I am not”!

Now the real issue is… or the health problem being presented, is the lack of understanding or the confusion seems to be in what your body is trying to tell you. My father was enjoying a day in their swimming pool, one hot hot summer day in the Mohave Desert, where my folks moved to, to get away from the cold. Now the average day there, you could fry a egg on the sidewalk. No kidding its hot. It was Mom’s Birthday, and she called me, I was thinking, I had’nt got to her yet, to learn my Dad, had a sunstroke. Hours later the Summer Sun took my father that day from my family.

Now that was 32 years ago and I still remember how quickly and speechless I was… a SUNSTROKE !

Today’s article is all about… SUNSTROKES

Now not knowing the symptoms of a Sunstroke, thinking that he over exerted himself in the swimming pool, made a wrong decision, and 2hrs later was pronounced dead. It did not have to be, and at the age 47, I found this to be very alarming.

Understanding your body signals, you and I, can be very differently, but too much heat, can be too much for any one. As we get older we stand to take on even greater risks, usually because of other health problems, medicines that we are now taking or even due to being over weight. Also, young infants need to be carefully watched, as they are sometimes overlooked for these symptoms.

You have to understand, your body can only handle a certain amount of heat. Your brain being the thermostat, sends and receives signals to and from parts of your body that affects temperature. It is like a built in monitor, taking readings from your spinal cord, muscles, blood vessels, your skin and other substances known as hormones. When it senses a elevation of heat, sweating is the reaction. The cooling the body feels, is when this sweat dries by evaporation, and your body temperature goes down.

A Heat stroke is a form of hypothermia, an abnormally elevated body temperature with accompanying physical and neurological symptoms. Also, in the case of my father..

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