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Heatstroke

Heatstroke is caused not only when you are outside or play sports. It is caused even when you are inside in high temperature and high humidity. Please be careful.

◆Situation

Heatstroke occurs in the below weather and circumstances.

  • High humidity (→Sweat doesn't evaporate.)
  • Light wind (→It doesn't remove heat from the body.)
  • Exposure to the sun(→Body temperature rise.)

◆Prevention

  1. Don't work or play sports for a long time in hot weather or indoors which is high temperature or high humidity.
  2. Drink water. (Sports drink is effective.)
  3. Take your temperature and check your health condition. Take a rest when you feel sick.
  4. Put on clothes which breathes well, hat and parasol when you go out.
  5. Control the temperature by using air conditioners or fans indoors.

◆Symptoms

  1. Feel dizzy, nausea
  2. Get a cramp in your calf
  3. Be faint (exhausted) and have no energy
  4. A lot of sweating
  5. Headache

◆Treatment

You have to recognize heatstroke as emergency and cool body immediately.
If you have any symptoms suspected to get heatstroke, please take the following measures and contact to on-campus health care center (phone:0742-27-9138).
*Please contact to on-campus janitors’ room (phone:0742-27-9116) at night on weekdays (after 5:15 p.m.) and on holidays.

  1. Move to cool place
    Move to the shade or if possible indoors well air conditioned and take a rest with your clothes loosen.
  2. Cool body
    Cool body with cold water or ice bag
  3. Drink water including salt
    Drink sports water little by little many times. You can supplement water and salt lost by sweating.
  4. Call ambulance
    Call ambulance in emergency such as when you lose consciousness or you can't drink water by yourself etc.
  5. In all cases above, don't keep the patient alone. Please take care of him or her.

Information on heatstroke prevention at campus facilities

For information on heatstroke prevention at facilities used for extracurricular activities, please see < here >.
Students, especially those who belong to extracurricular activity groups, should be sure to check this information.

Reference

Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare

Ministry of the Environment

Japan Sport Association

Japan Sport Council

Contact
Health Care Center - Nara University of Education
Tel:0742-27-9138
E-mail:hoken
Student Affairs Division - Nara University of Education
Tel:0742-27-9148
E-mail:ryugaku