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How to Protect Your Kids from Heat Stroke

Heat Stroke is prevalent or common to adults during the blistering heat of the summer and on the other hand to young adults and children are prone to sunburn and prickly heat.
Heat stroke can be dangerous since it can lead to death especially to young kids and old people. This usually happens when people exercise or do some tasks in a hot, humid place and losses body fluids through intense sweating for a long period of time. The outcome may cause the body to overheat which can also decimates brain cells.

Here are some cool tips, ideas and pointers to shield or protect you and your kids from heat stroke.

• Wear light cotton clothes. This will aid circulation of air between the clothes and the body.

• Drink a lot of water. Summertime is the best time to drink 8 glasses of water a day. You may encourage them to drink fluids by offering them fruit juices.

• Consider using sun protection or sunscreen if you intend to go outdoors especially for a long period of time.

• Refrain from going outdoors especially from 10:00 am to 4pm. This is the time where the sun blazes real hot.

• Take a bath twice a day to make you cool and rejuvenated all day long. The perfect time to take a bath is at the middle of the day and the other at 6 pm or before going to sleep. Your toddlers can also take a bath at nighttime for as longs as they don’t have fever, cough or colds.

• For kids who love to play a lot, put a paper on their back to prevent their sweat to drench their clothes. Paper is far more absorbent than clothes and at the same time dries faster.

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