Heat Stroke

🔬Causes & Risk Factors

• 1Caused by prolonged exposure to high environmental temperatures combined with humidity that impairs the body's ability to cool itself through sweat evaporation
• 2or by intense physical exertion in hot conditions that generates heat faster than the body can dissipate it. Risk factors include dehydration
• 3older age
• 4young age
• 5obesity
• 6certain medications that impair heat regulation
• 7chronic illness
• 8and lack of acclimatisation to hot climates. Outdoor workers and athletes exercising in extreme heat without adequate hydration are at particularly high risk.