A heat wave or extreme heat can have significant effects on the health of all of us. However, special attention should be paid to people who are frail due to age, health status (drug treatments that increase the effect of heat or alter the body’s adaptation to heat) or a life event (pregnant women) or due to overexposure to heat in schools or due to working, living, behavioral or environmental conditions. Heat wave episodes can result in several thousand hospitalizations and hundreds of excess deaths. For this reason, it is important not to wait for the appearance of warning signs such as the absence of urine for 5 hours or dark urine, the fact of having puffs of sweat when drinking a glass of water, cramps, tiredness or headaches, to start take preventive measures. measures.
Source: BFM TV
