How to treat sunstroke at home?

When summer comes with all its joys and activities, one should ponder the trips, meetings and activities but not get cured from the summer most typical illness – sunstroke. Generally, sunstroke is similar to heatstroke with the exception – the effects of sunstroke on human body are much worse.Having a sunstroke means longer recovery and treatment at home. When a person spends much time under the direct sunlight the hydration processes in the body cells decline and, as the result, the damage can vary from dizziness to severe weakness presupposing hospitalization of the patient.

How to identify a sunstroke?

Normal human body temperature is 36,6-36,7 degrees Celsius. But hot weather, especially when boiling heat occurs, makes it increase. On typical conditions, the body can easily adapt to high temperature up to 40 degrees, in case you drink enough water and protect the head with a kind of hat. But if the heat exaggerates its common summer maximum, the number of sunstroke cases is suddenly rising. Be sure you need some treatment if after a long stay outdoors you feel a splitting headache, dizziness or have sudden vomiting spasms, total body weakness, too quick breathing and heartbeat and usually fever. You should get worried about sunstroke treatment when you completely stops sweating, have pain in other body parts and your skin turns hot, dry and reddish, sometimes with pale spots too. most severe cases can end up with losing consciousness.

How to treat sunstroke at home?

To prevent yourself from this summer illness, try not to drink an excessive amount of alcohol, work hard outdoors or overexercise outdoor and you will probably prevent yourself from long treatment and bedstay at home. Instead, during the burning heat, find the shelter or at least a shadowy place to be outdoors, drink water as much as you can but avoid coffee and keep to balanced diet – lack of some essential minerals can provoke a quick sunstroke obtaining. But if despite the precausions, you have got a sunstroke, here is the list of the most effective and simple home remedies treating sunstroke. These home remedies are easy to find on every kitchen. They ensure rapid improvement of the patient’s state of health and quick relief of sunstroke symptoms.

* First of all, there is an urgent need to hide from the sun and start drinking lots of water, it is necessary to overcome dehydration. Almost any liquid suits the case – fresh or mineral water, squeezed juice, tea with no sugar but with a slice of lemon, or buttermilk (low fat by-product of the butter production) that is another effective first aid treatment for sunstroke. It is best to drink at least 2-3 glasses of buttermilk every day until the symptoms pass away completely. Avoid freezing cold drinks, they will worsen your physical state. Though you can suck ice cubes to reduce the temoerature gradually.

* The second most important step is to relax in a cool and shaded place. Curtain the windows but leave them open for the sake of good ventilation or switch air conditioning at average rate. You’d better stay in bed covered up with lightweighted sheet, better a cotton one.

* Wash the entire body with a sponge soaked in coolwater or take a shower avoiding extremely cold temperatures as they cause an extra stress to your body and nervous system. Have some of your siblings to watch while you are having a shower – you may suddenly feel dizzy and lose your consciousness.

* Do not wear tight clothes, it is recommended to put on something light and weightless. Do not forget to remove all kinds of accessories as your skin being irritated is very sensitive to anything touching it.

*If it is necessary, in the most severe cases of sunstroke, constantly drink the anti-dehydration lotions one can buy for you in any drugstore, they are low-cost, so you will not spend much. These lotions are aimed to restore the mineral balance in the body.

* Consume more watery fruit and vegetables such as watermelon, cucumber, pineapple, oranges, etc. they both deliver vitamins and minerals to get your body systems to the norm and supply a great amount of water the cells need to regulate body temperature. Avoid greasy food, sugars and fast food, they cause body exchange processes to slow down – this will make no good for quick recovery. Consider the fact, if on applying these ideas you are not feeling better but rather worse, you’d better seek for medical help in the hospital nearby.