The doctor named the main symptoms of heat stroke in the summer heat

Candidate of Medical Sciences, general practitioner Alexey Khukhrev told on Friday, July 11, how to recognize heat stroke.

The specialist noted that the classic signs of heat stroke are hot, dry skin, rapid breathing, red skin, depression of consciousness and headache.

"Accordingly, such a person should be quickly returned to the shade, wrapped in a sheet, wiped so that moisture evaporates from the surface of the skin and takes away heat," he said in an interview with Radio 1.

Khukhrev said a person with heat stroke should be given water at room temperature, RT reports.

"Cold water will cause stomach cramps, it will be absorbed worse," he explained.

The therapist noted that in hot weather it is better to give up alcohol, because it is an asthmatic active product that will begin to distribute water incorrectly in the body.

Summer is back: an orange danger level has been declared in Moscow due to the heat

The temperature in the capital will exceed 30 degrees this week.

Yulia Rovenskaya, a pediatrician at the Roshal Medical Center, said that the safe time for walking with a child is before 11:00 and after 16:00, when the sun is less active. 360.ru . At the same time, you should wear a panama hat or a cap, and wear light cotton clothes. If the baby blushes, complains of dizziness and feels sick, it is necessary to take him to a cool place, give him water and wipe his skin with a cool towel.

Earlier in the day, the state-owned Avtodor company urged motorists to observe safety measures in hot weather conditions, the Moscow City News agency reports.

City services were on high alert due to the heat in the capital, writes "Moscow 24".

In turn, Oksana Pivovarova, a professor at the Department of Therapy at the Medical Faculty of the State University of Education, a therapist, told Izvestia that extremely high temperatures are especially dangerous for vulnerable groups of the population, including the elderly, children and the chronically ill.

Earlier, cardiologist, internist, functional diagnostics doctor, candidate of medical sciences Andrey Kondrakhin said in an interview with the National Research Council that in order to safely survive extreme heat for the body, a number of simple rules must be observed: the temperature difference in an air-conditioned room and outdoors should not exceed five degrees, windows and doors must be tightly closed, It is also important to limit activity and drink more water at room temperature.