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Quick and stroke in children: What is different in, what to watch out for and what is the first aid?<

In addition to trips, carefree fun, vacations and swimming, vacations unfortunately inevitably include typical summer illnesses. The most common of these include heat stroke and scald. According to the experience of doctors, parents often cannot recognize whether it is the first or the second case. What are the differences between them and how do they arise?

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Is it a heatstroke or a heatstroke?

“A heatstroke is typically caused by the sun's rays affecting the head area. In case of heatstroke, the body temperature is normal or only slightly elevated. Accompanying symptoms of a burn (within hours) can be nausea, headache or dizziness. In the worst case, convulsions, vomiting and low blood pressure can also occur. A sunburn is unpleasant but less severe than heatstroke. Heatstroke occurs as a result of overheating of the body in a hot environment. This means it doesn't necessarily come from being in the sun. The cause can be, for example, staying in an overheated car, in a hot attic, great physical exertion in the heat, but also flying to warm countries with high humidity, to which our organism is not adapted. Heat stroke is manifested by a high temperature (up to 40 °C), chills, headache, dizziness, convulsions, confusion and general depression, which can even lead to coma. A fully developed heatstroke is a life-threatening condition, in which, in extreme cases, the body may even fail," clarifies and elaborates on MUDr. Silvia Bajová, pediatrician from Na Homolce Hospital.

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Warm, humid, without a hat

Children and elderly people who have heatstroke (or burns) are at greatest risk in high temperatures develops most easily. This is also because their thermoregulatory mechanisms are not as efficient as in healthy adults. So if you are not used to the heat and you suddenly come to the sea, where the ambient temperature is around forty, you drink little and exert yourself a lot, health problems can easily occur. This can also happen in an environment with high humidity (watch out for children staying near the sea in areas with high air humidity). Burns usually occur in connection with heatstroke, but here the brain and its coverings are directly irritated and damaged. It can also sometimes differ from heat stroke in that the symptoms come with a certain delay (at night after daytime sun exposure). Since this is a serious disorder of thermoregulation, it is clear that children are more easily affected, especially infants, whose thermoregulation is not yet perfect and sufficient in itself.

What is first aid?

What to do and how to help a child (as well as an adult) if you suspect heatstroke or a burn? "In the case of heatstroke, we relieve the patient by immediately moving to the shade and continuous administration of fluids, preferably with a rehydration solution such as Kulíšek or Enhydrol in the case of children. If it is not available, mineral water will suffice. In the case of heatstroke, the first aid is to cool the victim by placing him in the shade, preferably in a cool room, followed by showering with lukewarm water, applying an ice pack and, as in the case of heatstroke, continuous replenishment of fluids," says MUDr. Badass.

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"You must transport the affected person as quickly as possible to a cooler environment, if possible ventilated, and undress. If possible, wrap him in a cold, damp sheet, put cold compresses on his head or wash him with cold water. If you have the option, you can take a shower (sitting). You continue until the temperature drops below 38 degrees. You can administer an antipyretic and an analgesic," adds general practitioner MUDr. Peter Karger.

What to watch out for?

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When to call a doctor?

If the condition of the affected person after cooling and administration liquids does not improve in any way or, on the contrary, continues to worsen, so it is necessary to call a doctor immediately. Warning signs are usually a further increase in temperature, vomiting, rapid loss of fluids (dehydration), convulsions or changes in the patient's behavior - delirium, apathy, fainting... Such urgent cases belong in the hospital, where the patient is given infusions, or drugs to alleviate other symptoms, that means anti-convulsants, pain relievers and the like.

Homeopathy will also help

Scald and heatstroke threaten children not only when traveling, but basically at every step. staying in an overheated area that is exposed to direct sunlight for a long time (overheated) is without skin burns. These events occur under etiologically different circumstances, of course the most common cause is the summer heat and direct exposure to the sun. But difficulties can also appear after a walk on a hot day, in a closed car or in an unventilated room. The symptoms are common to both conditions – congestion of the head, chills, temperature, loss of appetite, vomiting, in more advanced conditions also blackouts, delirium, dehydration and even loss of consciousness. Clinically, in a healthy infant, heatstroke manifests itself quickly - the child turns pale, cries, has a high temperature, may have diarrhea or vomit. Even these conditions can be solved with suitable homeopathics," says MUDr. Věra Budková, general practitioner for children and adolescents with many years of experience in standard medicine, extended by alternative treatment options.

Treatment of heatstroke and scald

ACONITUM NAPELLUS – with the sudden onset of congestion, temperature as a result of overheating from the sun or heat, the skin is red, dry without sweating. A person has intense thirst with a desire for large quantities of cold water, rapid pulse, strong agitation, anxious states, fear of death, red face when lying down, pale face when upright.

Dosage: every 15 minutes in 9CH or 15CH dilution, when improving, gradually extend the intervals and discontinue.

BELLADONNA - in a violent, rapid onset of fever which may fluctuate (39-41°C), red flushed face covered with sweat, throbbing headache, sensitivity to light, noise, tremors, rapid pulse, dilated pupils.

Dosage: is the same as for the previous medicine.

GLONOINUM - Congestion of head with flushes of heat and "bursting" sensation, hot red face, eyes sunken, red, bulging, throbbing and throbbing (temporal arteries and carotid), dull rigid look, better in cool and fresh air , improvement with cold compresses.

Dosage: the same as for previous homeopathics.

BRYONIA- Constrictive, oppressive headache, especially at the level of the forehead, aggravated by slightest motion, improved by absolute immobility or wide compression, perspires profusely, thirsts with appetite for large quantities of cold water.

Dosage: the same as for the previous medicines.

GELSEMIUM – sunburn or heatstroke, intense pressing headache, especially in the back, accompanied by visual disturbances, pain in the eyeballs, adynamic fever, tremors, prostration, numbness, crimson face, absence of thirst.

APIS MELLIFICA – remedy for heartburn, headaches with sudden onset, stiffness and sleepiness, improved by pressing the head with both hands, profuse sweating, absence of thirst, difficulties are improved by cold.

Dosage: 15CH and 30CH every 15 minutes, stop gradually when the condition improves.

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Homeopathy can also be used preventively before sunbathing, at least two weeks in advance. You can use APIS MELLIFICA, BELLADONA or HYPERICUM PERFORATUM 15CH; if skin problems appear in our climate, we give 5 granules once a day ten days before staying in the sun and 5 granules twice a day during sunbathing.

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