Summer Dangers Abound

Friday, April 24, 2009 ·

By Ian Kleine

You try your best to keep your kids safe, but sadly, it is either in the form of your kids, or the form of your environment that could very well bring your kids to the brink of danger. It may be something harmless, something inconspicuous, but when it happens, you will be taken in for a big surprise. These dangers are very much existent and prevalent in the outside environment.

The sun. It is very important to life in this world. Without the sun, the earth would be nothing but a big chunk of ice in outer space. It would be safe to say, that without the sun (and the proper distance from it) everything would be not as it is today. But too much of the sun would prove to be very uncomfortable and often times fatal to most of us, human beings. There are two dangers oftentimes associated with too much exposure or being unprotected from the sun; sunburns and heat stroke.

Heat stroke, or heat strees, happens when people stay too much out of the sun and suffer from severe dehydration because of it. Symptoms that a person is suffering from heatstroke are thirst, fatigue, dizziness or nausea, cramps, vomiting, fever and head aches.

Kids are oftentimes susceptible to this when they play out too much in the sun (not realizing the time) or when trapped inside a car. DO NOT leave a kid inside the car while you do your shopping or office stuff. At least not without company and an open window.

Sunburns happen when most light skinned folks forget to put their daily dose of sunscree or sunblock. Melanin is a very important thing nowadays, and unless you want to spend at least two weeks cringing in pain when you shift in your bed, change out of your clothes or getting poked at in weird places, you might want to observe steps on how to protect yourself from sunburns.

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