Any health advice, please?
Like many people I'm really struggling with this heat. What are some tips to keep cool? I work in a nursery school children and I'm dreading going to work tomorrow because it is very hot. The staff is struggling with the heat so no I can imagine how kids feel. No I have to drink as much as I am too busy running around so any tips on how to be calm? The building that work is also very hot, we have fans going, but because the room is hot is just hot air moving around does not produce a fresh air! Help verge of tears at the thought of another day like this. I am sick of it constantly
The one and only reliable way to stay cool in very hot weather is the air conditioning. All other methods are only partially useful and quickly become useless as temperatures rise. Fans will not cool the building. You have to actively remove heat from the building to cool it. Air conditioning does this. A fan of the fact that air temperature increases (from moving blades and the motor). You may feel cold at first, because it helps to evaporate sweat, which cools, but as the sweat evaporates, the temperature and humidity in the increase of construction, and if you do not have air conditioning to eliminate, over time will become unbearable, no matter how much sweat and no matter how powerful the fans are. This is inevitable because of the laws of physics, there is no way to avoid that is dangerously high. Heat. You can bundle up against the cold, but no nothing you can do against the heat. Drinking water helps to replenish the water lost through sweating, but not really cool in itself. Sweating for long periods is too hard, and if the temperature or humidity are high, and / or air movement is too low, sweating is not enough, and runs the risk of hyperthermia (Insolation). If the temperature is too high, the only safe option is to stop working. In a nursery, where you can not simply send children elsewhere, bringing in portable air conditioners is the only safe option. Children are more vulnerable to extreme heat and cold than adults (although adults are more vulnerable to heat than they realize.) Drinks and ice cream and fans did not help beyond a certain point. You should air conditioning or stop their activities in the hot environment. Heat stroke can develop quickly and insidiously, so be careful. At the time of recognizing the it may be too late to do anything about it. Heat stroke and damage their ability to think clearly, so you do not realize what is happening before faint. Sometimes the first obvious symptom is a seizure. Unfortunately, as heat waves becoming more common everywhere, people in places that have not been so hot before have no idea how dangerous heat can be. Struggle with the fans and drinks, and try to be good soldiers because they fear being ridiculed if they refuse to work in the heat, and then sometimes get heat stroke and die. You would not work in a nursery in which only a few degrees above zero, which should not work in an environment which is many degrees above the proper temperature. In your case, you must push your management of the installation of air conditioners. The potential liability if a child or an employee passes out and ends up in hospital (or worse) much greater than the cost of renting some air conditioning.
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