Summer is coming around again very soon and with it, another chance for heat rash, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke. It just does not seem to matter what you tell folks, how much you warn them, or how much education is out there, there are always those who over exert themselves anyway.

It is like an addiction. You can explain the dangers of too much sun and yet they will spend the day at the lake, exposed to the sun with no shirt and always wind up at the emergency room, just like last summer.There Is Always One In The CrowdThey are like those people who take the blood borne pathogens training and still manage to stick themselves with a patient’s needle.

They just do not listen. When the body is unable to remain cool enough to maintain a safe temperature, you have heat exhaustion. Excessive exercise in hot weather coupled with dehydration will overheat a body relatively quickly. Those that are most susceptible are small children, older adults, people who suffer from obesity or those with a chronic illness. The summer also brings out the worst in those who are not in great shape and act as if they are. The symptoms go largely ignored until it is far too late.

Elevated or below normal Plate heat exchanger body tempNo Alcohol (Of Any Kind)It is not as if the warning signs are subtle, in fact, they are so obvious that one cannot help but notice. It is these same people who pour beer and other cool alcoholic drinks into themselves thinking that is what they need to cool off.

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