The best tips for overcoming the temperature outside.
How much fluid to consume? How to use conditioner? What temperature beverages to drink? Prefer hot shower or cold? You can quench your thirst sweet fizzy drinks? All of these questions can be answered, after reading the following 6 regulations for the safe summer.
To avoid overheating and sunburn. If you are on holiday, to bask in the sun from the morning till 11 o’clock and since I was 16. To sunbathe it is necessary without fanaticism, gradually increasing the time spent on the beach. On the first day don’t tan more than 10-15 minutes. If you this, the Council will ignore and still get burns, it will remain unless take care to reduce it. You can use the spray with panthenol or folk remedies, for example, sour cream or yogurt, which should be applied on the burnt areas. In any case, do not use fatty creams or oils – they do not promote healing of sunburn and can even worsen the situation.
To walk in light natural clothing, preferably wear a hat. This will help to avoid sun or heat stroke. Symptoms of heat stroke are: dizziness, headache, severe weakness, deterioration of concentration. When heat or sunstroke, the person may be either very pale, or blush. Assistance begins with the fact that the victim provides cool. Suitable premises with conditioned air, cold compresses or sponging the body with ice, even a brief cold shower.
To drink enough fluids. Contrary to popular beliefs, it doesn’t have to be only pure non-carbonated water. In fact, carbonated drinks quench thirst better. A person weighing 60 kg has during the day to drink up to 2.5 liters of fluid. Juices and sweet drinks count too! Juices are better to drink diluted (you can add ice, then you will have a moderately cool drink). Medical recommendations have not said that people must avoid sweets, including sweet water.
The difference between the temperature outside and indoors should not exceed 10 ° C that is, if the court of + 30 ° C, it is not necessary to install air conditioning at 17 ° C from this temperature drop, the body will suffer. The same goes for a cool shower – make the water 10 degrees cooler than the body temperature, and get the maximum pleasure. Drinks it is also advisable not to drink very cold.
In the heat, on the beach, under the sun not to drink alcohol! It stimulates the cardiovascular system, and this negatively affects concentration and General health. Beer and other alcoholic beverages are also prohibited in the daytime. However, in the evening, of course, you can afford to relax – if it’s not too hot. Another caution – coffee. Caffeine, like alcohol, stimulates the nervous and cardiovascular systems, therefore it is important not to use it in large quantities. Plus, hot coffee is not very good “is” in heat. A worthy alternative to drinks that contain caffeine in small quantities. Note: we are not talking about the drinks-stimulants, and sweet carbonated water with a low content of caffeine.
People with chronic diseases, including cardiovascular, you should drink a sufficient amount of liquid the same as healthy people. There are some limitations only for patients with heart failure. Even people with hypertension in the heat have quite a lot to drink to avoid dehydration. Remember: when there is a feeling of thirst means that the body is already experiencing water shortages. Therefore, it is necessary to drink in small SIPS, but often. Heat wave especially dangerous for the elderly. Over the years, the sensitivity threshold is reduced, this also applies to thirst.
