Heat exhaustion warning

AUSTIN (KXAN) - As the temperatures climb to 100 degrees and higher, doctors in Central Texas get ready to treat people who get too hot, dehydrated and ultimately, have heat exhaustion.

Dr. Carlos Victorica at Scott & White Cedar Park West says his team is ready to see people who push it a little too hard out in the heat working or playing.  They can experience sudden fatigue.  Their body temperature rises and they sweat a lot.  Those symptoms usually mean they have heat exhaustion, but there is an important difference between that and heat stroke.

"Heat exhaustion can be reversed very quickly with some very simple measures -- getting people out of the heat affected area, getting them into air conditioning, getting their clothes off, getting water on them as fast as possible and getting them hydrated," said Dr. Carlos Victorica.  "Heat stroke is a medical emergency."

Dr. Victorica says heat stroke usually comes with a headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting that does not go away very quickly.  You should get someone to the hospital if someone has those symptoms after being out in the heat, because it can be deadly.

 
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