SUNSTROKE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22332, 1 February 1936, Page 7 (Supplement)

SUNSTROKE

Sunstroke is caused by insufficient fluid in the body, and is commonest when high atmospheric temperatures are accompanied by high atmospheric humidity. Those who porsist in wearing thick clothes and tight collars, who insist on hot, beefy sort of meals and suet puddings in tho summer, and who don't confiuo their cocktails to the evening, instead of allaying their thirst with soft drinks, are asking for trouble. If these stalwarts persist in their vigorous physical exercise, and brave the sun on their bare heads, the wonder is that they survive. Women are usually wiser in these respects than men, and if they moderate their activities in the heat of the day, drink plenty of water, reducing alcohol consumption till evening comes, and always keep tho sun off the backs of their necks, they won't get sunstroke. The first symptoms of sunstroke is severe, blinding headache, with or without A dark room, ice to the head and fluid by the mouth are emergency treatments until tho doctor comes. Pallor and exhaustion on a hot day are warning symptoms of heat stroke, and should not be ignored. Children who are unaccountably irritable on a hot day are probably suffering from the early symptoms of sunstroke, and must be kept quiet in a cool place until the evening/