To get annoyed about use of "heat stroke"

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Heat stroke is a very serious condition. Having a headache, thirst, being very hot and sweaty does NOT mean you have heat stroke. Yes these are symptoms of heat stroke, but if you only have these symptoms you do not have heat stroke.

I actually did have heat stroke in Italy. I was very red, but no longer felt hot at all. My heart rate went way up as did my core temperature.

Heat stroke is dangerous. If you really think your kids have heat stroke, seek medical attention. But usually the term is not used to mean that. A but like cold and flu. And yes it annoys me.

Actually looking at the NHS website they are using "heat exhaustion" in inverted commas, to differentiate between normal but very unpleasant getting too hot, and heat stroke.

I had a colleague who phone in sick with heat stroke every Saturday during the summer.

He was always fine the next day.

THAT is what I mean. Like people coming into work saying they have the flu. If you have real flu just getting out of bed is very difficult.

Maybe they did have heat stroke? My daughter got heatstroke at school when she was four. Nasty business.

Tbh, I'd also class heat exhaustion as a step above 'normal but very unpleasant'.

I had heat exhaustion a few weeks back after too long in a hot car driving home. I had a blinding headache, was violently ill, had chills and had to lie down for the evening because I was too weak to move. I was still shaky the next day.

I'm sorry it annoys you, personally I wouldn't give it any head space.

I once as a teena had what everyone called sunstroke. I had got burned in the day then later in evening went really pale - despite being beetroot coloured previously - went very dizzy and threw up. Would that just be heat exhaustion?

Lots of people do similar though

Food poisoning when they've got 24 hr D&V
Flu when they have a snuffle
Allergies when hey don't like something

I think until you've been through the 'real thing' some people aren't aware of the real differences.

Heat exhaustion is what we used to call getting too hot and dehydrated. I am older and this is exactly what it was called. It is unpleasant, but not a medical emergency.
Heat stroke is a medical emergency and should be taken seriously.

reup - You can get ill and throw up from bad sunburn.

Like when people ask why you've had to take the day off work with 'just a headache' when you tell them you've got a migraine...

(Is heat stroke the same as sun stroke? Ive never heard of heat stroke or heat exhaustion!)

reeup sorry posted too soon. It does not sound like sunstroke. With sunstroke you no longer feel hot, I actually felt quite cool. Your heart rate goes up a lot as does your core temperature. It is why if it goes on for longer than 30 minutes, you have to seek medical help. You should never just go to bed with it. It is dangerous, but in Britain very very rare. What most people have is simply getting too hot, headache, dizzy and dehydrated. Very unpleasant, but unless you already have a serious illness, can be self treated.

DS1 is the palest, blondest child imaginable. His Teacher last year ignored the message I'd left with the secretary on sports day (it was 29 degrees) asking for her to ensure he wore his cap and took plenty of water onto the school field. She didn't, he spent 4 hours in the blistering heat, was sick all over her trainers and spent the following 3 days in bed almost entirely out cold recovering from some sort of weird reaction to the sun. I'd say that was the closest thing to heat stroke I've ever seen.

Yes heat stroke is the same as sun stroke. Heat exhaustion is a fairly newly made up phrase to describe the very unpleasant feelings of too much heat and not enough fluids.

"Food poisoning when they've got 24 hr D&V"

If they got it from food it's food poisoning.

I took my DS to see his GP after spending too much time in the sun.

He had a dreadful headache, was being sick, shaking, dehydrated with very dark urine and his temperature fluctuated between too cold to fever. He was diagnosed with sun stroke and promptly sent to the hospital. That was after 3 hours in the UK on a school camping trip.

Its not that rare in the UK, the hospital said they see several cases a week during the summer months so please do not ignore these symptoms if you have a young child. DS spent several hours with a drip in his arm and didn't fully recover for 3 days.

Yes heat exhaustion is potentially serious if you are a baby, toddler, very elderly or have a serious health condition.

You treat lots of things much more seriously if this group of people get it. My 92 year old FIL could die from things that I would treat as no big deal.

YANBU.

I've had actual heat stroke. I fainted, vomited and ended up being given IV fluids. I don't think I've ever felt so ill in my life. It took me a week to feel normal again.

Feeling a little bit shit after too much sun is not the same.

Ds and I are not meant to live in a hot climate. I don't sweat or even perspire, I just sort of swell and feel sick. I once had heatstroke in Italy. My temperature just wouldn't come down and I had to lie with ice packed round me. Ds goes as red as a beetroot and he too swells up. We do envy those people who are lithe and tanned and look nice in white clothes.

Agree about the flu etc. Proper flu poleaxes you. You are not able to go shopping, binge watch Netflix nor even go on MN!

This reminds of a couple of years ago when I , according to DF, "went into shock"

I cut my foot badly on a rusty bit of metal. I took one look at my bleeding, rust covered foot and promptly threw up everywhere then fainted

After a tetanus jab and an ice cream I was fine, didn't even need steri strips

When I was a kid we used to call what's now 'heat exhaustion' i.e. getting over-heated and dehydrated, 'sunstroke'. It's not usually serious, you feel hot and cold /clammy/ nausea/headache a bit like a hangover. Probably causes confusion with 'heatstroke' for some.

Some people like to exaggerate.

I remember having flu (real, would of failed the £20 note test and was praying for death) a few week later my sister had a cold kept complaining about her "flu" and I wanted to strangle her.

My point being when you've suffered the real thing and then have to listen to others exaggerate when they blatantly don't have such illness it's fecking annoying.

So YANBU flu-gate was three years ago and I've got annoyed just thinking about it.

This does my head in. My mum is obsessed and if the kids get tired during summer it must be heatstroke.