Severe heat stroke can lead to heat cramps, heat exhaustion, and pyrexia, which can be life-threatening.
1. Heat cramps: patients with severe heatstroke can experience dizziness, headache, and painful cramps in the limbs and abdominal muscle groups. Often occurs in the first time into the hot environment work or exercise too much, did not timely replenishment of water and salt.
2. Heat exhaustion: when patients with severe heat stroke, there can be increased hematocrit, hypernatremia, mild azotemia and liver function abnormalities, mostly seen in the elderly, children and patients with chronic diseases.
3. Heat stroke: mainly because of exposure to high temperature environment, resulting in rapid increase in body core temperature, more than 40 ℃, can lead to patients with skin burning, consciousness disorder, rhabdomyolysis, multi-organ failure of severe clinical syndrome, serious can lead to patients in the onset of 24 hours of death.
So when severe heatstroke occurs, it is necessary to rapidly cool down the temperature, immediately sent to the hospital for medical treatment, seize the time to save the patient’s life.