Reducing stress seen as key to better health
Avoiding chronic stress benefits health and lowers risk of high blood pressure obesity and diabetes. Stressors trigger fight or flight with cortisol and adrenaline, but daily pressures keep hormones elevated. Time management setting limits and practicing saying no help reduce impact and improve wellbeing.
Heat illness prevention and warning signs guide
The article outlines heat illness types such as heat cramps exhaustion and stroke plus warning signs like elevated temperature headaches nausea and dizziness. It stresses calling 911 for heat stroke and offers prevention tips including hydration light clothing and avoiding heat during peak hours. It notes ten hot car deaths in South Carolina since 1998.
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Neal Martin
Scdhec
Martin
CDC
South Carolina
Preventing Heat Illness and Child Safety Tips
Summer heat exposure can cause heat exhaustion with symptoms like pale face nausea and sweating and heat stroke with flushed skin and fever. Tips include seeking shade, drinking salted water, checking cars for children or pets, locking doors, and placing reminders by your child.
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