the city. Low key, Humble
mountain of a man who moved
with honor and respect.
>> Was telling you.
>> A long stretch of hot
weather. Haley is back with
She’s talking with the Houston
Health like she does every
Monday.
>> Yeah. Thanks for for for
joining me on this because we
have been talking about the
extreme heat and Doctor David
purses, the chief medical
officer for the city of
Houston. He’s joining me now to
say exactly what people can do
to avoid heat related illness,
which we know is probably going
to be a problem this week for a
doctor. First.
>> Oh, absolutely. I would go
to this every year in Houston
and people need to get more
money but are decked
themselves. So thanks for doing
this segment.
>> So which heat related
illnesses actually put people
at risk of losing their lives?
When does it become really
dangerous?
>> A couple of guys up on this
me talk cramps and they’re
pretty minor. They’re really
painfully, Joe. Your captor may
be or are the really painful,
but they’re not dangerous.
You get out of the gate, you
get hydrated, stay out of the
need for the rest of the day.
Your body is already sending us
a no. Those aren’t. So that
heat exhaustion is a little
more serious. And it again is
what it sounds like. People are
outside or working. And these
really they just cannot work as
hard as they usually do.
Reese wedding profusely are
exhausted. That is a little bit
more serious. Again, you need
to get out of the gives Murray
hydrated and stay out of the do
or say you’re done after that.
It’s been dangerous. One of
these sheets Te’o each, you
know, he exhaustion can build
heat. Stroke is sometimes
people just go right in the
heat stroke and this is
completely different. It is
when your body’s mechanisms to
cool and so completely fail
and your body’s core
temperature just skyrocketed.
Happens very quickly. 10 to
15 minutes you can get into
a life-threatening. Should you
ation one of the greatest
dangers of what is the first
symptom often is confusion.
Sure the person is experiencing
it becomes confused and
therefore becomes unable to
protect themselves. So it’s
the people that are around
them. Family members,
co-workers, absolute stranger.
You see something out of the
heat. It’s acting strangely.
Their skin is very often is
very good and maybe read it
made it will be hot to touch
their generally dry. They stop
sweating. That’s the cooling
mechanism that he’s failed.
You’ve got to get that first
going. Number one, get him out
of the heat. If you can hide
him a little bit. That’s fine.
But if they’re too confusing,
they can swallow. Don’t force
done to create another problem.
Would you have to call an
audible? And this is not a
problem to resolve. What this
requires the emergency
department care to get that
person’s body temperature and
the rain is so hot because of
course, some 2060708. The brain
starts to bail. That’s where
confusion is one of her
symptoms. This is like reading
one of the permanent brain
damage where you can die from
this. So heat stroke is the one
that we worry about and it is.
you know, on the spectrum of
heat illnesses. But you can
go running the stroke all by
yourself again, the number one
early symptoms, confusion.
We generally hot and dry skin.
>> And doctor purse. When we
talk about who is at risk for
these heat related illnesses,
we typically talk about the
very young, the older
population you’re mentioning
people who work outside.
Is it true right now, though,
that since we haven’t had a lot
of time to gradually acclimate
to these hot temperatures that
pretty much anybody could be at
risk right now because, you
know, typically we would have
several, 90 degree days before
we get to 100 and it feels
like, boom, it just hit us
really quickly.
This year.
>> But now, you know, you’re
absolutely right in Toulouse,
us who live in Houston for for
many years. You know, we we
know we when he starts coming.
We know that we need to adjust
her schedule. Anyone who’s at
risk for to end this year
again, you know, we’ve been
very bright from, you know,
the nice spring weather right
There’s really, really hot
weather in the summer. That
happens from time to time here
in Houston. But usually we get
a little bit of a little bit
way. You know, Roland Beery,
right with Mother Nature didn’t
give us that this year. So
we’re all at risk really need
to mention, too, that the
employers unemployed people to
work outdoors. They often have
to adjust their schedules.
So they were little more in the
morning to go to break the day,
maybe work a little bit later
in the evening. But if you
haven’t already done that, if
you’re an employer, you haven’t
already done that. You need to
do that. I mean, clearly now is
the is the time for the rest
of us again, we talk about the
really young in the really old
to the older folks who live
in all of the air condition.
What we traditionally see here
in Houston, is it that those
folks are running into trouble
towards the end of the summer
when that speech or Q and in
fact, over the entire summer,
really without air
conditioning, it catches up
with them. But this year with
an ending. So so rapid so early
again, you know, like you said,
you’re exactly right. Anyone is
at risk for a heat emergency
issue because we’ve got such
high heat so early in the year
and we didn’t get a chance
climate ice to it. And then the
other group that we’re buying.
I was one of these folks 30
years ago. If you moved to
Houston, you don’t know.
He can tell you live in Houston
for several years. It took me a
couple years to get adjusted
to. It wasn’t just a bad deal
for me the first year which we
3 or 4 years before my buddy
climate change. But yeah, and
as people are getting older,
too, they forget that, you
know, your body becomes more
sensitive to it as you get
older. So always a good
reminder. Doctor Purse, we
thank you for
>> getting up early and joining
us live. We had cooling
center’s up on the screen while
you were talking to. And of
course, we will put this on our