{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30619267","dateCreated":"1290445540","smartDate":"Nov 22, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"SARAESTEBANBURGOS","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/SARAESTEBANBURGOS","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/inglesmedico.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/30619267"},"dateDigested":1532253730,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Prevention symptons produced by a heatwave","description":"Heatwave is a period with anormal raised temeperatures or with a really warm air invasion in an area. Children and elderly people are usually more affected by heatwaves than others. It is commun to suffer of heat stroke, dehydration, sunstroke, exhaustion, tiredness... In my opinion, the best thing would be to prevent all this symptons, so what would you advise any person?","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"30742911","body":"In recent years, excessive heat has caused many deaths. As you said, elderly, young, sick or overweight people are more likely to become victims of excessive heat. For this reason, the most important advice I would give them is to stay hydrated by drinking fluids even if they do not feel thirsty,avoiding drinks with caffeine or alcohol.
\nOthers useful precautions could be:
\n -Avoid extreme tempeture changes.
\n -Stay indoors and avoid doing exercise during the hottest part od the day.
\n -Do not wear dark colors because they absorb the sun\u00b4s rays.","dateCreated":"1290629159","smartDate":"Nov 24, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"ElenaPujante","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ElenaPujante","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"30749635","body":"it\u00b4s true all that my colleagues have said about the precautions we must take.
\nThe "heatwave" is connected with transport, industry, different ways to produce energy, and all the actions that increase pollution.
\nEach summer more and more people have to be treated in hospitals. I think the cause of this is that people are very overconfident and they don\u00b4t know very well the precautions to be followed.
\nit \u00b4s too important when it\u00b4s too hot, especially children and the elderly, to be well hydrated and to try not to stay long time in the sun. If you want to sunbathe, you must use sun lotion with high protection.","dateCreated":"1290640448","smartDate":"Nov 24, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"patricia.bote","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/patricia.bote","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"30769787","body":"I think that this topic is also related with the forests that are destroyed by fire. In these situations, the flora and fauna are obviously affected but the land's damage is incredible. In some cases, there is nothing to do with this.","dateCreated":"1290708611","smartDate":"Nov 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"PatriciaRodriguez88","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/PatriciaRodriguez88","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"30772397","body":"Besides the mentioned precautions, I think it would be important to add that, in this situation, people should avoid alcoholic and carbonated drinks,drinks with caffein or sugar, and heavy meals because they lead to deshydration. I is advisable to minimized physical effort, wear comfortable clothes and ask for help when feeling indisposed.","dateCreated":"1290715467","smartDate":"Nov 25, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"catiaduque","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/catiaduque","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"31182035","body":"Heat waves are for sure one of the most important health problems in our country during summer. In the latest years, this has become more serious because of the increase of highest temperatures in these months of the year (some people state that it\u2019s due to the climate change; and for the same reason, minimum temperatures of winter are lower compared to last decades ones).
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\nAs my partners have said, children under 5 years old, the elderly and people with chronic diseases like diabetes, hypertension or respiratory illness are prone to suffer heat strokes.
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\nMost of the victims are the elderly and the children. For the first ones, it\u2019s fundamental to make them aware about the huge importance of drinking water, even if they aren\u2019t thirsty. I think those who have ever had contact with an old person know how difficult is to make them understand that they must drink liquids in order to avoid this disorder. That\u2019s why every year, Ministry of Health runs campaigns about this matter.
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\nOn the other side, to prevent this situation in children obviously their parents are the ones in charge. As well as common preventive measures, it\u2019s important to bear in mind that they must never leave their child alone inside of a car. This kind of exposure to the sun may kill him\/her in few minutes, the more faster the younger is the kid.
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\nI have also read in some website that heat waves at night are much more dangerous. It depends on the place, but it seems that it\u2019s because of the higher humidity during the night. Apart from the stress because of the insomnia, this high humidity makes difficult for our body to control our corporal temperature, which will rise dangerously.","dateCreated":"1291493904","smartDate":"Dec 4, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"Sara_Vidal","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Sara_Vidal","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"31571311","body":"I agree completely with my colleagues in relation to the aforementioned effects of the heat waves on public health as dehydration or heat strokes are, and to the great importance which preventive measures have. Apart from all of those measures which are been indicated by my partners, it\u00b4s possible that the use of air conditioning is the only option which many people have to face such higher temperatures at home, especially in old buildings which behave like a real oven. But a generalized and excessive use of air conditioning may have consequences: not only widespread power outages but also an aggravation of the climate change.","dateCreated":"1292068468","smartDate":"Dec 11, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"Marta.Mozo","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Marta.Mozo","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"31600963","body":"Everyone seems to be worried about the heatwave. Actually is something to be worried about because one important factor of it is the pollution, that increases really fast. But there is also another point of view that says that this heatwave is due to random changes of the weather in the Earth. As there has been glaciar eras we might be now in a heatwave era.
\nThe human body might get used to it, but in the begining we must be very careful with the people that run more risks,like children and elderly people.
\nEven though everybody has to take care and prevent second effects drinking a lot of water and not being exposed to the sun rays for a long time.","dateCreated":"1292185707","smartDate":"Dec 12, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"ester.miravalles","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ester.miravalles","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}},{"id":"31714787","body":"Heatwaves can be very dangerous to people with a direct effect on them as mentioned above but also indirectly. In Spain during summer, depending on the degrees of heat we reach there is more or less danger of fire in the woods and so the people near them or having made a trip to the woods to spend their vacation are not only at risk by the heatwave itself but by the possibility of a fire. So prevention in that regard should also be taken.","dateCreated":"1292351177","smartDate":"Dec 14, 2010","userCreated":{"username":"CarolynPE","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/CarolynPE","imageUrl":"https:\/\/ssl.wikicdn.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]}],"more":false},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}