Severe heat stroke symptoms

Heatstroke mainly refers to a disease caused by prolonged exposure to high temperatures, which causes some disorders in the body's temperature regulation function. If severe heatstroke occurs, it will be particularly harmful to the patient and may easily lead to poor prognosis or even death. Therefore, when heatstroke occurs, it is important to understand the symptoms of heatstroke precursors, seek timely treatment, and avoid greater harm.

1. Symptoms of Heat Stroke

In a high temperature environment, symptoms such as headache, dizziness, thirst, sweating, weakness and soreness in the limbs, inattention, and uncoordinated movements may occur. Body temperature is normal or slightly elevated. If you move to a cool and ventilated place in time and replenish water and salt, you will recover in a short time.

2. Symptoms of mild heat stroke

The body temperature is often above 38 degrees. In addition to dizziness and thirst, there are often symptoms such as flushed face, heavy sweating, burning skin, or cold limbs, pale face, low blood pressure, and rapid pulse. If treated promptly, recovery can often occur within a few hours.

3. Symptoms of severe heat stroke

As the name suggests, it is the most serious type of heat stroke, and it will be life-threatening if not treated in time. This type of heat stroke can be divided into four types: heat cramps, heat exhaustion, sunstroke and heat stroke.

4. Characteristics of heat cramps symptoms:

It often occurs when there is excessive sweating and thirst, and when drinking a lot of water but insufficient salt supplementation causes a rapid and significant decrease in the sodium chloride concentration in the blood. When this type of heat stroke occurs, the muscles will suddenly experience paroxysmal spasms of pain.

5. Characteristics of heat exhaustion symptoms:

This type of heat stroke often occurs in the elderly and those who are unable to adapt to high temperatures. The main symptoms are dizziness, headache, palpitations, thirst, nausea, vomiting, cold and clammy skin, low blood pressure, fainting or confusion. The body temperature at this time is normal or slightly high.

6. Symptoms and characteristics of sunstroke:

The cause of this type of heatstroke is just as its name suggests, because under direct exposure to the scorching sun, the strong sunlight penetrates the skin and skull of the head, causing damage to brain cells, and then causing congestion and edema of the brain tissue; since the head is mainly injured, the first discomfort that occurs is severe headache, nausea and vomiting, irritability, and then coma and convulsions may occur.

7. Symptoms and characteristics of heat stroke: Some people engage in physical labor in a high-temperature environment for a long time, causing their bodies to produce too much heat and not dissipate enough heat, resulting in a sharp increase in body temperature. In the early stage of the disease, there is a lot of cold sweat, followed by no sweat, shallow and rapid breathing, rapid pulse, restlessness, confusion, and low blood pressure, which gradually develop into coma with convulsions of the limbs. In severe cases, cerebral edema, pulmonary edema, heart failure, etc. may occur.