It is necessary to realize that high temperature weather is actually a “disaster”, and its threat to health and life should not be underestimated.
▲In hot weather, citizens use paper bags to block the dazzling sunlight.Photo by Beijing News reporter Pu Feng
On July 16, it officially entered the ambush. This means that our country has entered the hottest dog days of the year, and this year’s dog days lasts as long as 40 days, and many places will turn on the “steaming and roasting” mode. Before this, my country had experienced the first regional high temperature weather process this year. The high temperature in some areas has lasted for 30 days, affecting more than 900 million people, and even people died due to heat stroke in some places.
According to Red Star News, in the past few days, three people died of heat stroke in Nanchong, Sichuan, and a hospital received more than 10 cases a week. According to the Beijing News, patients in Zhejiang, Henan, Jiangsu and other places were admitted to hospital due to heat stroke. Among them, a patient admitted to the emergency department of Lishui Central Hospital in Zhejiang Province was in shock when he was admitted to the hospital and died after 31 hours of rescue. Some experts say that the fatality rate of the disease exceeds 50%.
The news of the “hot dead” and the rising temperature curve, let people experience the current heat that is different from the past. So that special words such as heat stroke have become high-frequency words familiar to the public, and people have begun to understand the harm of this disease. When dealing with heat stroke, prevention is the first priority, especially at the conceptual level.
Different from people’s understanding of typhoons, tornadoes, rainstorms and other disasters, many people think that the intensity of high temperature disasters is not strong, so high temperature weather is not regarded as a disaster. In fact, sustained high temperature can not only directly cause death, but also easily lead to the rapid deterioration of some underlying diseases, and the threat to health and life should not be underestimated. Therefore, to cope with the extreme heat, it is necessary to establish a correct concept, and individuals should be the first responsible person for maintaining their own health.
In the “steaming and roasting” mode of the ultra-long dog days, it has become a top priority to do a good job of heatstroke prevention, especially for outdoor workers. In fact, most of the recently reported deaths from heat stroke involve outdoor work and high temperature work, such as sanitation workers.
With the scorching sun on the horizon, people should minimize going out. When they must go out, they need to choose a good time and take precautions. At the same time, at the social level, working hours should be scientifically and reasonably arranged, employees’ outdoor work should be minimized, shifts should be accelerated, working hours outside the home should be shortened, and labor guarantees such as heatstroke prevention and cooling should be provided. At the level of public services, all localities should do a good job in the dispatch of heatstroke prevention materials, power supply, and emergency rescue.
▲The cleaning staff are busy working under the scorching sun.Photo by Beijing News reporter Pu Feng
Specifically, it is advisable to temporarily build shading equipment and provide cool drinks for people working outdoors; medical institutions temporarily open “heat clinics” to prevent and treat diseases caused by high temperature; large shopping malls, supermarkets, underground shelters, stadiums, stations , street shops and other public places, may wish to open to the public to enjoy the cool. With scientific knowledge as the foundation and the participation of social forces and public policies, we can provide a shade for the people and minimize the harm caused by the sweltering heat.
At present, some places have already taken action. According to People’s Daily Online, in order to prevent medical staff from heat stroke, Nanchang City requires outdoor sampling personnel to wear disposable isolation clothing instead of protective clothing; the sampling site should be arranged in a cool place as much as possible to avoid direct sunlight; the sampling personnel should change their guards within one hour , and put refrigerators, fans, ice cubes around the medical staff to help cool down.
Such measures may be implemented in more regions, especially for front-line manual labor such as sanitation, road maintenance, and construction sites. Especially for types of work that must work outdoors, such as construction sites and sanitation, it is advisable to adjust the outdoor work time in time to avoid high temperature periods and effectively avoid the occurrence of heat stroke.
Although heat stroke is dangerous, it does not happen instantaneously, and it also follows a process from mild to severe. Before the progression to heat stroke, patients often show symptoms of heat stroke. As long as they are treated and treated in time in the early stage of heat stroke, the deterioration of the disease can be avoided to the greatest extent. These basic treatment knowledge should also be popularized in outdoor types of work, so that abnormality can be detected in time and sent to the doctor in time to ensure the safety of the staff.
Of course, it is also necessary to avoid excessive heat in response to the heat. Gastrointestinal diseases caused by air conditioning and cold drinks should be regarded as “secondary disasters” caused by extreme heat. People with underlying diseases should be more cautious when dealing with the heat, and do not turn on the air conditioner too low. While doing scientific heatstroke prevention, it is also necessary to avoid injuries such as “air conditioning disease”.
Written by / Luo Zhihua (medical worker)
Editor / Ma Xiaolong
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