1, quickly get out of the high temperature environment.
Put the patient in a cool, dry and ventilated environment, and take off tight and wet clothes.
Step 2 replenish water
Need to supplement drinks and drinks immediately, mainly low-temperature rock sugar salt water.
3. External application of the head
A cold wet towel can be applied to the patient's headache or externally applied to the head. You can change the towel every 10 minute until the symptoms of dizziness and headache are relieved.
Step 4 take medicine
You can take some symptomatic drugs, such as Huoxiang Zhengqi Water and Ren Dan. It can also relieve the pain in the head.
5. You can use ice.
First, you should put the ice cubes in an ice pack or wrap them in a towel, and then apply this towel to the headache. This can make the blood vessels in the head contract, and the symptoms of headache will naturally be alleviated.
6. Stay on your back and add salt water.
If the symptoms of heatstroke are serious, blood pressure drops and you collapse, you should lie flat immediately and drip normal saline into the hospital in time.
7. Seek medical attention in time
If the above treatment can't relieve the headache, you need to go to the hospital for symptomatic treatment immediately, so as not to delay the illness.
How long will heatstroke headache last?
Heatstroke and headache may last for 2-3 hours. If the patient has only mild heatstroke with symptoms such as dizziness, headache or sweating, the duration may be 1 to 2 hours. If the patient has a high body temperature, severe headache or brain edema, the duration will be longer, possibly within a few hours. In terms of treatment, physical cooling or drug targeted therapy can generally be carried out.
Causes of heatstroke and headache
1. Heatstroke is caused by staying in a high temperature and high humidity environment for too long, which can lead to dysfunction of the thermoregulatory center, increase heat production and decrease heat dissipation, thus dilating blood vessels in the head and causing headaches;
2. After heatstroke, patients often have brain edema, causing headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting;
3. After heatstroke, patients often have fever and metabolic disorders, which usually cause headaches.