How Extreme Heat Overwhelms the Human Body
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- Опубліковано 12 кві 2023
- When it comes to extreme weather, heat can be a “silent killer.”
As the climate warms, small changes in average temperature can have big impacts, including an increase in the number of people exposed to extreme heat.
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Heat almost killed me while roofing in the AZ summer. After vomiting everything, I went into convulsions until unconscious.
If not for a plumber down below, I would have died. Wet towels and electrolytes brought me back. It took a week to recover. I then went to college and graduated to a white collar career. Don't mess with the heat. It wins out in the end.
Scary story! I’m 25 years old still biking and skating around the Phoenix area to commute and I’m always worried about being low on electrolytes and water, unable to beat the heat.
I had a seriously close call when I planned a trip across town poorly, became super dehydrated and abandoned my bicycle so I could take a shortcut through the desert so I could get home faster. A friendly neighbor let me drink from his hose and saved my life. I knocked on like 10 doors before someone answered.
@@microsoft790 Wow! I'm glad you survived and learned. Be safe and healthy so you can live a long and rewarding life.
Been livin in sw Florida for 25 plus years and heat is not something you mess about in...and always take water with me
If you hydrate yourself, you won't die of heat stroke. DRINK LOTS OF WATER PEOPLE!!!!
True stories
As a nurse living in the deep south I tell people that if they can't afford Gatorade or other sports drink, add a salt package to your water. You not only need water but electrolytes like magnesium and sodium. I tell people to drink 1 drink with electrolytes for every 3 to 4 bottles of water.
If you are outside working and you notice your sweat isn't salty anymore, you need to seek shade and electrolytes real quick.
I tell the elderly to take their temp every 2 hours during days when it's 90 to 95. Every hour for 95+ and they need the heat index, not just the temperature.
Be a gardener in Australia 🇦🇺 working 38c is my cut off limit anything over 36c plants burn after clipping. Keep cool 😎
Come visit India mate !
45C with 88% humidity is normal
Damn 😂
@@subhodipguin5889 my husband from south India and he cant handle Louisiana climate.
We get to witness natural selection in real time.
Hence the need for more power to keep us cool, better construction to keep us away from extreme weather, now and in the future.
Did you know you can get heat exhaustion in a 55-degree cave? You can when the humidity is 90%. I know. It happened to me.
Heat stroke happens a lot in Hawaii. I seen people collapse more times than I can count! (Especially in Waikiki where all the tourists go!)
Imagine poor India with temperatures that sometimes approach 120 degrees!
I can't stand anything above 73°F without some kinda airflow otherwise I overheat, I have had this issue since I was a baby.
My right knee is the worst, and work wants me to get a signed DR's note to wear shorts, an I am damn positive safety over-rides company policy's when it comes to overheating issues!~
Agree 100%
Try South Carolina!
Come to nola!
So how does measuring heat better help us?
Can we stop going to work? Can we stay home with the air conditioner?
What if you don't have an air conditioner?
You say this as if our society is going to chage in order to compensate the heat.
'fahrenheit'? it is 2024, not the dark ages. Use standard units of measurement.
Quick crying
We talking about melanated people or non melanated people ? A Scottish person is going to handle the heat way different to someone from Africa for instance
Keep moving to Florida and Texas!
so what about extreme cold? don't more people due by cold than heat?
Go to Mexico, 99% of the people refuse to work over 30c, there is no productivity in the entire country, maybe it's the heat, ????
Wow, maybe you just met people like yourself.
Not the heat lol
@@osesno6386 after living in mexico 30 years and running a business, it's all the people
No, sir. 37° recently (the hottest March that I can remember) and everyone is working in SW Mexico. Construction!! Need more hotels for all the tourists.
@@sidstovell2177 what tourist??? it's down 78% since last year....there is no construction based on tourist
Try living in texas baby....its probably cooler in iraq
Acapulco, Congo, Saharah, Bali, Philippines, Java.
HOT
I’m a high school football coach and I work my players the hardest the hotter it gets. I find we perform better and our record improves.
You’re inhumane. I always thought my mother was grossly exaggerating when she compared Americans to (the worst kind of) Germans, but these last seven years have shown she wasn’t entirely wrong.
Your kidding ? That’s very negligent for a coach .
No way would I let any child of mine be coached to almost “die” for sports or “better” performance 🤨!
If even one dies due to your (torture practice) no insurance money brings them back!
NO! " TO YOU PERSONEL OPINION!"
IT ALSO CAN CAUSE HEAT STROKES, AND DEATH!
Today, we are living in fairly cold conditions, and we may approching spring [earth sezon] in Galactic Year season temperatures. 😀 instead of putting the blame on ppl, they should stop sending uranium warheads to ukraine and investing money into technology research in preparation for not so freezing GY summer ahead. We are too little to be able to manipulate GY temperature and can protuce grate insulation if wanted.
We can not change the Phanerozoic climate, but we can adapt to it.