Heat stroke risk factors

Heat stroke is attributed to the failure of heat regulated mechanism. This is most likely to occur in individuals subjected to high temperatures to which they are unacclimatised. It may be provoked by prolonged exercise or by heavy clothing which prevents evaporation of sweat. Heat stroke risk factors are numerous and their effect over the extent of this illness depends mainly on the intensity of these risk factors over a particular individual.

Some Heat stroke risk factors are enumerated below with their ill effect in causing this life threatening emergency care illness.

· Excessive heat exposure:

Excessive heat exposure may cause individual to sweat a lot. If the body experiences excessive heat it results in serious complications involving metabolism of the individual’s sweat glands.

· Humidity:

Humidity unravels sweat from a particular person’s body. Hence when humid conditions prevail then it requires the sweat glands to be activated and thus sweat pours out from the person’s body.

· Obesity:

Obesity is the main heat stroke risk factor as far as the extent of this emergency care heat ailment is concerned. Being obese webs much disease to accredit a particular individual. Obesity plays a major role in heat stroke. It may also aggravate the sweat gland metabolism rate thus ending up in excessive sweat pour from body of patient.

· Excessive Dehydration:

Excessive dehydration may also risk a person to imbibe some form of heat stroke (may be hyperthermia or hypothermia). Excessive dehydration leads to depletion of essential ions required for the metabolism concerned with the body.