mardi 1 août 2017
This Mom's Warning of How Heatstroke Can Happen Indoors Will Throw You for a Loop
If you live in an area that can really heat up during the Summer months, you know the dangers heatstroke when it comes to your kids. But did you know that heatstroke can actually happen indoors, too? Jennifer Abma found out the hard way when her 3-year-old daughter Anastasia wouldn't wake up from a nap during a recent heat wave in Canada, where the summer temperatures rarely hit 80 degrees.
After opting to keep both her daughters inside and safely out of the 90-degree weather, all seemed to be going pretty well until Anastasia went down for a nap.
After more than an hour, Jennifer opened the door and tried to wake her up. Panic quickly consumed the mother of 2 when the toddler didn't respond. Abma called the paramedics when she noticed how suffocatingly hot the bedroom really was and how sweaty and red her daughter was.
"When the ambulance came, they came with investigators because they didn't know what to expect as did I," she wrote in a viral Instagram post. "This was proof how fast things change. Anastasia put herself down for a nap, I had no idea how hot her bedroom was until I went to wake her up soaked in sweat, red face, boiling, and unable to wake her for 15 minutes."
When the paramedics arrived, it was determined that the room was 122 degrees and Anastasia's body temperature was 104 degrees. The toddler also had low blood sugar - a dead giveaway that she had heatstroke. Ultimately it took 15 minutes for paramedics to wake her, but after getting orally fed sugar she started to recover.
"All I could think was, how could this happen? How didn't I know?" Abma told POPSUGAR. "How can her room be the only room that's this hot? I had just posted about being excited for her birthday on the next couple days, and it was almost pulled from beneath my feet. I kept asking myself if it was my fault."
So while the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stress the importance of not leaving your kids in hot cars or outside on especially hot, humid days, it's just as important to keep tabs on your little ones' temperature, even if they're indoors.
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