What some people don’t understand is thermal stress and dehydration happens quickly and alcohol dehydrates the body and brain. Keep up with your fluids and electrolytes in the heat, especially children, elderly people and the sick and disabled people must keep their fluids up.
Make sure your fur babies are kept hydrated too as they too dehydrate rapidly in the heat. Make sure they have shelter and water they can easily access. Do not leave children or animals in a car, 5 minutes is dangerous to both. Too many children have died in Australia due to poor parenting, so please be very careful, temperatures of 25 degrees upwards are dangerous in a car. We are talking minutes here not half an hour…minutes! Modern cars have vacuum sealed windows and doors so no air gets in and glass is like a magnifying glass.
Stay safe and keep cool avoid staying in the sun because you will pass out from the heat. Keep you children and fur babies in the shade. Living in Australia we are used to the high temperatures but we avoid the hottest parts of the day outdoors unless we have to go somewhere. We also have a high rate of melanoma due to the beach culture. That ain’t pretty when your skin is like leather and you age prematurely and then discover that you have melanoma (skin cancer). The damage is done when you’re young and especially if you get sunburn. Melanoma is not always easy to spot either, it can look like eczema. It can even be between your toes and other bizarre places on your body.
My husband was one such victim and has a shark bite like scar on his arm. That was from diving with his arm resting on the window which many people do. He has never been the sort of person to go out in the sun, having auburn hair and fair skin.
Make sure you wear a sun hat and sunscreen outside or carry a parasol to avoid damp flat or frizzy hair.
