AccuWeather has the details you need to know about heat stroke, a serious health condition, and heat exhaustion, which precedes it.
AccuWeather has the details you need to know about heat stroke, a serious health condition, and heat exhaustion, which can precede it.The CDC estimates about 600 heat-related deaths per year, but the EPA said this might be an undercount, some estimates put the total at more than 1,300 deaths per year. That makes extreme heat more deadly than all other weather events combined,Before someone has a heat stroke, they get overheated and experience heat exhaustion.
If a person's body temperature rises above 104 degrees Fahrenheit, the result is a heat stroke. When a person has a heat stroke, they are no longer sweating, but their skin is flushed. Other symptoms of a heat stroke include an altered mental state, a racing heart rate and vomiting. Symptoms of heat exhaustion include headache, nausea, dizziness, irritability, weakness, thirst, heavy sweating, decreased urine output and elevated body temperature.
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