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.

This is like when people say "Oh I have the flu" when really they have a cold.

If you are talking about hot and sweaty but get better after a sit in a cool room, then YANBU.
If you are talking about vomiting and still ill the next day, then YABU.

Heat stroke - body temp over 40 degrees, hot dry skin, symptoms of clinical shock. Body can no longer regulate temp and just keeps heating up. Leads eventually to convulsion and death. Heat exhaustion (not a new term, I've taught it in police first aid for several years) hot sweaty, dehydrated, maybe nausea and dizziness. Life threatening if left untreated because it will worsen into heat stroke.

SiL claims to have narcolepsy because she gets tired.

When DP or I say we're tired after work - I have 12 hour night shifts in home for peeps with dementia and he does 10 hour days managing a big shop with an hour drive each way she tells us we have 'sleep disorders' and badgers us to see a GP.

We don't have sleep disorders. 12 hour stints at work leave everyone knackered.

Heat exhaustion is a precursor to heat stroke, and so should be treated seriously too. YABU to consider heat exhaustion as just being too hot and sweaty.

I've had heat stroke a couple times but never in the UK

I had heat exhaustion in Crete and will never forget it. It was awful - I was delirious hallucinating and shivering. Someone came and managed to sort me out with water and coke (we were stuck somewhere after a delayed flight with literally no access to water) Dreadful

YANBU. My DH seems to think he has heat stroke, because he got sun burnt yesterday and feels a little crappy. He's still managed to go to work, and function like a normal adult though. People do love to over exaggerate their symptoms.

heat exhaustion :- caused by loss of salt and water from the body through excessive sweating
signs:- headache, dizziness and confusion, loss of appetite and nausea, sweating with pale, clammy skin, cramps in arms, legs or abdomen, rapid weakening pulse and breathing.

If not treated can sometimes lead to heatstroke.

Heatstroke :- caused by failure of the 'thermostat' in the brain which controls body temperature.
signs;- headache, dizziness and discomfort, restlessness and confusion, hit flushed and dry skin, rapid deterioration in level of response, full bounding pulse, body temperature above 40 degrees.

My mum's sister died in childhood from heatstroke :-(.

I've been hospitalised with heatstroke many times, I get really pissed off when people tell me to stop being dramatic because it's just a bit of heat and no doubt it's hotter in x/y/z country anyway.

YANBU

It is horrible and can be very serious.

Mard arses that just get a bit hot and sweaty are being dramatic saying it's heat stroke.

NBU, as long as you know people can be at risk of being really ill, and are not just being dramatic. If someone is telling you they or their child became ill after getting too hot, why would you argue about the word?

I've been hospitalised with heatstroke many times

Genuine question, no malice: is there a reason you've had it multiple times? That must be awful. I've had it only once, and I now do absolutely everything in my power to avoid too much sun, to the point of paranoia. I can't imagine going through it again.

I had heatstroke on my honeymoon - I have no memory of it but I apparently turned to my husband, asked who he was and demanded to be taken back to my mum and dad we were with a private guide and they took us back to the hotel. I came to 12 hours later to the sight of my worried husband holding a box of French pastries. He told me if been ranting and requesting them for hours! How he managed to get hold of some in the far flung corner of the world we were in, I'll never know! Proved he was a keeper!!!

I used to get it because my Mum was of the thought that it's just a bit of heat and we'd be fine, she was from NZ and used to go golden brown at the first hint of sun, we'd be playing out in fields all day with no thought for sun cream, hats or the like and often I didn't realise I was feeling so unwell until I was at the point of being seriously ill. It's awful, it's a running joke in the family how badly I cope with heat ... I'm the only one that doesn't find it funny.

When ds becomes too hot, his body shuts down and he just lies there staring into space, then he vomits, then he falls asleep. This cycle repeats itself for about 6 hours until he begins to move again. It takes him a few days to be completely better.
He is like this whenever he has a high temperature and it has also happened suddenly when he went into a warm room. He dropped to the floor and just lay there staring. The hospital just said it was poor temperature regulation because his temperature was high and then dropped below normal.

I was hospitalised with heat stroke and had to advise work. My mum actually phoned as though she were me as i was incoherent and it just saved time (we sound very alike). The manager apparently ended the call abruptly by suggesting i wore suncream in future. No clue what sunstroke really was about.
Ignorance is everything. But there's no point in telling the drama llamas that they're exaggerating. It's just a sign of immaturity. Rise above and spend more time worrying about you.

Lest we forget the 70,000 estimate who died during this heatwave.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_European_heat_wave

I had a two year old at the time.

Heatstroke is serious in the old and the young.

I think I was probably on the way to heat stroke on Saturday - stopped feeling at l hot, sudden aversion to all light, seeing stars, then passed out. Lay in a cool dark room for several hours when not vomiting. DH checked on me often, discreetly googling meningitis symptoms as I don't get migraines. I didn't claim heat stroke though have been dx with it in the past.

People round here are mostly suffering from "prickly heat" or "bloody hell". Very little exaggeration.

I would say people are similarly casual with the term "hypothermia". As heat stroke doesn't feel hot, hypothermia doesn't feel cold. You stop shivering and just get kind of woozy, possibly removing "annoying" clothing and settling down for a nice sleep. It's an important condition for everyone to recognise as it needs treating promptly.

Works the other way too. My ds was on the way to sunstroke (temp way up, head ache but resisting attempts to cook him down) when I picked him up. Everyone insisted he had factor 50 on and had been wearing a hat.

People don't understand that hot is a problem as well as sun. I got sunstroke at Disney (didn't get any free stuff though )

Dp always has "heat stroke". Winds me right up. He also gets "frost bite" a lot in winter. He's not as bad as Mil and Bil though, so it could be worse. They go to the GP to get antibiotics if someone coughs near them (slight exaggeration but not much).

Your poor aunt Lumbricina

I am pale and ginger and freckly. As a child around 8, my dad let me run around on the beach all day in Scarborough and with his 1970s "benign neglect" parenting method didn't bother reapplying suncream. He may have occasionally looked up from his Le Carre long enough to mildly suggest I put on my teeshirt. Mum was not with us.

Next day I was dark red on my back, I looked like roast pork, I was sick, dizzy, was seeing purple spots, clothing was too painful to put on. I had several days off school, as it was a couple of days before I could stand up or see straight or indeed put clothes on. I was pretty ill. I don't know how bad as My memory is hazy.