DOH warns public vs heat stroke amid high heat index

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The Department of Health Western Visayas Center for Health Development is reminding the public to take measures to avoid heat stroke and other heat-related diseases amid the dangerous heat index that continues to prevail. In an advisory over the weekend, DOH-WV stated that the public should avoid outdoor exposure to avoid the deadly heat stroke.

Other symptoms, per DOH advisory, include altered mental state or behavior, alteration in sweating, nausea and vomiting, flushed skin, rapid breathing, racing heart rate, and headache. Pag-asa has warned that a high heat index may prevail until the middle of May. Heat indices or what the temperature feels like to the human body when relative humidity is combined with the air, ranging from 41°C to 51°C are considered dangerous levels, Pag-asa stated.

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