How to stop heat stroke quickly?
Wellington Prohaska
2025-07-29 15:35:22
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For heatstroke, cool the person through whatever means available. Put the person in a cool tub of water or a cool shower. Spray the person with a garden hose. Sponge the person with cool water. Fan the person while misting with cool water. Place ice packs or cool, wet towels on the neck, armpits and groin. Cover the person with cool, damp sheets. If the person is conscious, offer chilled water, a sports drink containing electrolytes or another nonalcoholic beverage without caffeine. Begin CPR if the person loses consciousness and shows no signs of circulation, such as breathing, coughing or movement.
Caden Glover
2025-07-29 15:18:17
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If someone has heat exhaustion, follow these 4 steps:
Move them to a cool place.
Remove all unnecessary clothing like a jacket or socks.
Get them to drink a sports or rehydration drink, or cool water.
Cool their skin – spray or sponge them with cool water and fan them.
Cold packs, wrapped in a cloth and put under the armpits or on the neck are good too.
They should start to cool down and feel better within 30 minutes.
If it turns into heatstroke, it needs to be treated as an emergency.
You or someone else have signs of heatstroke, including:
still unwell after 30 minutes of resting in a cool place, being cooled and drinking fluids
a very high temperature
hot skin that's not sweating and might look red.
Call 999 now if you or someone else have signs of heatstroke.
Put the person in the recovery position if they lose consciousness while you're waiting for help.
Brendon Deckow
2025-07-29 14:21:50
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To stop heat stroke quickly, call 999. Quickly move the person into a cool environment. Remove outer clothing and loosely wrap the person in cool damp clothes or a sheet. Continuously pour cool water over the sheet or clothes. If there is no sheet available, you can also fan them or sponge them with cool water. Keep cooling them while waiting for help to arrive. If their temperature returns to normal and they no longer feel hot to touch, you can stop cooling them. Replace the wet sheet with a dry one and help them to rest.
Clotilde Considine
2025-07-29 12:34:06
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Immersion in cold water.
A bath of cold or ice water has been proved to be the most effective way of quickly lowering the core body temperature.
The quicker someone with heatstroke receives cold water immersion, the less risk of death and organ damage.
Use evaporation cooling techniques.
If cold water immersion is not available, healthcare professionals may try to lower body temperature using an evaporation method.
Cool water is misted on the body while warm air is fanned over the person, causing the water to evaporate and cool the skin.
Packing with ice and cooling blankets.
Another method is to wrap a person in a special cooling blanket and apply ice packs to the groin, neck, back and armpits to lower temperature.
Give medicines to stop shivering.
If treatments to lower body temperature make you shiver, your doctor may give you a muscle relaxant, such as a benzodiazepine.
Shivering increases your body temperature, making treatment less effective.
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