Heatstroke Prevention and Treatment Measures 中暑的预防和救治措施.doc

HeatstrokePrevention and Treatment MeasuresHeatstroke is caused by many reasons. There are mainly two situations in which heatstroke easily happens. One situation is high temperature and high radiation and this situation is called dry and hot weather. In this situation, the strong sunlight and the high temperature can easily make human body heavily lose too much water. If there is no timely water replenishment, people will be extremely easy to get heatstroke. The other situation is high temperature and high humidity, i.e. the sticky weather commonly happening in summer. In this situation, human body cannot normally perspire, heavy skin blood flow happens and cardiac output is heavily increased and heart failure incident will be heavily increased and mortality rate caused by heart diseases will be heavily increased.I. Prevention FirstOn the aspect of diet, you shall pay attention to water replenishment. In summer, you are easy to lose much water and thus you shall not drink water until you feel thirsty in that case your body has already been short of water. Besides, microelements will lose as water evaporates. Therefore, youd better drink some saline water. On the aspect of food, you shall get enough protein such as fish, meat, eggs, milk and beans. Besides, you also shall eat fresh vegetables which can help prevent heatstroke such as tomatoes, watermelons, bitter gourds, peaches, smoked plums and cucumbers. In light of cold drinks, actually the colder drinks you have, the easier you get heatstroke. It is because human body cant adapt to the short-term partial coldness all of a sudden, the digestive system is affected and consequently another systems are also affected. You shall wear sunglasses, sunbonnets, very breathable cotton or silk clothes and use sunshades when you go out. You shall prepare drugs preventing heatstroke such as Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid, Shidishui, Rendan, etc. Dont set the temperature of air conditioners too low. Great difference between indoor temperature and outdoor temperature will cause heatstroke.II. Treatment after Heatstroke Probably you get heatstroke when you feel dizzy, sick and flustered. At this moment, you shall stop what you are doing and find a shade to have a rest. In the meantime, you shall slowly sip some water in this way it will not increase workload on the heart. Please adopt the following measures when you get heatstroke:1. Immediately move the patient to a cool, dry and well-ventilated place such as a corridor, a shade, etc.2. Make the patient lie on his back. Unbutton his collar and take off or loosen his coat. If his clothes are soaked with sweat, please change into dry clothes. In the meantime, turn on electric fan or air conditioner (avoid direct wind blowing) to let the patient cooling as quickly as possible.3. Apply a wet and cold towel on the patients head, axilla and groin. If possible, wipe the whole body with lukewarm water and make massage to muscles and skins in this way it will accelerate the blood circulation and promote heat dissipation.4. The conscious patient or the patient made conscious after cooling can have mung bean soup, drink saline water or have Rendan, Shidishui and Huoxiang Zhengqi liquid (capsule).5. Once the patient gets high fever, coma or tic, please let the patient and let his head fall backward in this way it will keep the airway open. In the meantime, please immediately call 120 to turn to the medical staff for emergency aid and treatment.III. Diet for Heatstroke Prevention1. Mung bean soupMung bean is sweet in taste and cold in nature. It has the effect of dispersing heat, inducing diuresis and reducing edema, soothing throat and quenching thirst and improving eyesight and bringing down blood pressure. It is quite effective for heatstroke, pharyngitis and boils. Therefore, mung bean is always taken as heatstroke prevention food. However, mung bean is cold in nature so it is not suitable for people with hypotension and women in period to have.2. WatermelonWatermelon pulp has the effect of dispersing heat, dispersing polydipsia, inducing diuresis and preventing alcoholism. It can be used to treat all kinds of fevers, heat strokes, polydipsias, dysurias, sore throats and oral inflammations. The watermelon is a natural drink with rich nutrients which are quite good for human body. However, there will be some side effects when eating too much watermelons.3. Fresh lotus root juiceFresh lotus root juice has the effects of dispersing heat, dispersing polydipsia, quenching thirst and preventing vomiting. Sliced lotus roots with moderate quantities of sugar soup can disperse heat and eliminate heatstroke. Lotus roots with tawny epidermis, fat and white pulps are of good quality. If pulps looks black and have some unpleasant smell, then these lotus roots are not suitable to eat.4. Bitter gourd juiceBitter gourd has bitter flavor and it is cold in nature. It has the effects of dispersing heat, improving eyesight and detoxifying. Besides, bitter gourd is rich in nutrients, especially vitamin C. It can improve vascular permeability, protect angiocarpy and reduce blood pressure and chelosterol. Icy bitter gourd juice is quite good to disperse heat. If you do not like the bitter flavor, you can add sugar into the icy bitter gourd juice. However，bitter gourd is cold in nature so it is not suitable for insufficiency-cold and infirm p