What is heat stroke?

Heat stroke is heat-related illness, which is considered to be most vulnerable. Heat stroke is medically referred as hyperthermia. Hyperthermia if not treated may prove to be fatal. This occurs when a person’s body absorbs more heat than the heat it radiates. Prolonged sunlight exposure is the main cause for heat stroke (medically known as hyperthermia). When cooling system of the body fails, it will result in temperature of the body to rise substantially. Symptoms of heat stroke are lack of sweating, high pulse rate and changes in mental behaviour often manifested by serious persistent or recurrent mental disturbances. These mental disturbances affect the coordinate system of one’s body resulting in serious damages to the mental fitness of a person.

Sports players suffer quite different type of ailment, which includes contrasting symptoms when compared to the signs enumerated above. They suffer from exertional heat stroke. It is the most important treatable of Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome (MODS). Hyperthermia – medical devices or drugs can treat a life threatening disease. Prolonged exposure to low temperatures can cause serious medical complications, which is commonly referred as hypothermia. Hypothermia is a condition in which the body temperature lowers and falls down below the normal level of body temperature. Thus it leads to affecting the normal functioning of the body by providing hindrance to the occurrence of normal metabolism. Both hyperthermia and hypothermia includes the ailments resulting from pneumonia. Skin ailments are also caused by heat stroke. General treatment methodology includes the cooling of patients and presenting them with emergency treatments.