For the thermal stress, treatment of it and what to look out for in heat The Professor of Epidemiology and Preventive Medical School, Theodora Psaltopoulou, spoke today (22.07.2025) to ERT today (22.07.2025).
Initially, he emphasized the protection measures to be taken on the days of the heat: “This huge thermal stress, as you say about temperatures above 40 degrees for many hours and days, It definitely creates a problem for vulnerable groups, but eventually creates a problem around the world because we are talking about huge thermal stress, the largest majority of deathsas reflected in the previous month for European regions and for the European capitals studied, was that The elderly, that is, 70 – 80s, are unfortunately the largest population of died.
Therefore, we care for all those around us and especially the older ones, People with chronic health problems, pregnant women and children. That they cannot have this thermoregulation we all have and also take medicines and have diseases that exhaust them very quickly.
Be careful to be in cool spaces with a fan or air condition and wearing lightweight clothes, Let’s do baths quickly and cool or of course when we go to the sea we wear our hat, sunscreen and the nights in the evening, because we also have the West Nile virus.
Always have water next to us, fruits and vegetables, We do not want fat, caffeine, alcohol in large quantities because they can confuse us. We need to talk to our doctor if we take other medicines, for example antihypertensive, neuropsychiatric, because all people with health problems are disproportionately affected.
We must not forget that the car can become a thermal chamber, we have to be careful not to forget and forget someone. We prefer teleworking where possible. “
The symptoms
While explaining the symptoms of thermal exhaustion: ‘And what we call thermal exhaustion is good to understand around us if someone has Dizziness, headache, tendency to faint, tachypnea, symptoms such as nausea and gastrointestinal blood, muscle cramps It may mean that it has reached its limits in terms of thermal exhaustion, if it was before the sun.
While heat stroke is dangerous to our lives, which means that we have now greatly increased the temperature within our body and we must immediately lower it with cool bathrooms or with cold water pads down the temperature. It is definitely something that is very important and we have to go to a health center, a hospital next to us. “
He also emphasized the importance of removing heat: “We generally want either the windows open if there is air or the windows closed, at least with a fan, to increase the ability to remove the heat inside us. Generally, Even a degree of temperature rise in the temperature beyond normal can lead to people over 65 years, to a 4% increase in infarction and a 2.5% increase in strokes. Therefore, we take care of everyone around us, who are predisposed to the factors for this. “