Heat Related Wounds and Injuries Conditions and Diseases


Tips for staying safe in warm weather, and how to recognize and care for different stages of heat injuries. Includes a glossary of related terms. From the American Red Cross.








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See Also:
  • Fact Sheet: Extreme Heat - Ways to keep people and buildings cool during a heat wave. From the US Federal Emergence Management Agency (FEMA).
  • How to Prevent Heat-Related Illness in Children - Steps, tips and overall warnings. From eHow.com
  • Dead Heat - Why Don't Americans Sweat Over Heat-Wave Deaths? - Raises the question of why more attention is conditions and diseases not paid to these preventable deaths. [Slate]
  • Heat Safety - What to do when a heat wave strikes. Heat related illnesses and symptoms. The heat index section and its effects is especially important for high risk individuals. From the National Weather Service.
  • Heat-Related Illness - Tips for staying safe in warm weather, and heat related how to recognize and care for different stages heat related of heat injuries. Includes a glossary of related heat related terms. From the American Red Cross.
  • Dehydration - Information on dehydration and heat-related illness, presented by wounds and injuries Survive Outdoors, Inc.
  • eMedicine Health - Heat Cramps - Consumer health resource center providing information on the wounds and injuries causes, symptoms, and treatment.
  • Heat Stroke, Dehydration and Prevention - Cooler Heads Prevail - Uses the story of three hikers to illustrate wounds and injuries what can go wrong in the heat. Stresses wounds and injuries drinking water and electrolytes. From the GORP Trail wounds and injuries Survival Guide.
  • Dehydration and Heat Stroke - Presents the causes, symptoms, and prevention, from the heat related University of Maryland Medicine.
  • HowStuffWorks: How Heat Stroke Works - Brief narrative explains the cause, effect and treatment of heat stroke.
  • Extreme Heat - Identifies people most at risk, explains how to wounds and injuries stay healthy in hot weather, and lists symptoms wounds and injuries and treatment of problems such as heat stroke, wounds and injuries heat rash, and sunburns. From the US National wounds and injuries Center for Environmental Health (NCEH).
  • Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke - Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, conditions and diseases and treatment on heat related illness. Presented by eMedicine Health.
  • MedlinePlus: Heat Illness - Resources and fact sheets for dealing with heat heat related related illnesses.


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