2. Also known as Sunstroke
Core temperature greater than 40.6 degrees centigrade (105 degrees F)
Predominant CNS symptoms
Classic (nonexertional) heat stroke: Affects individuals with
underlying chronic medical conditions (ex – cardiovascular disease,
neurologic or psychiatric disorders, obesity, anhidrosis, extremes of age, and
drugs such as anticholinergics or diuretics).
Exertional heat stroke: Generally occurs in young, otherwise
healthy individuals who have engaged in strenuous exercise in high
temperature and humidity
Treat as a medical emergency! Can be life threatening.
9. Cold water shower should
be given.
Application of ice bags on
lateral aspects of trunk ,
axillae , groins.
Fanning
Trunk and neck massage
should be given to reduce
vasoconstriction.
10.
11.
12. According to Homoeopathy, illness results from derangement
in an energy pattern or vital force, when affected by any
“morbific dynamic agents”. The aim of Homoeopathic
treatment is to stimulate a person’s energy level. The
symptoms represent the organism’s reaction to imbalances on
the dynamic plain. Homoeopathic diagnosis aims to establish
a total pattern of symptoms that reflect the personality of the
patient as well as the individuality.
Individualisation is process by which one patient is
differentiated from other patients while suffering from the same
nosological condition.
The “cure” depends upon matching the pattern of symptoms
that is characteristic of the patient (totality of the symptoms)
with similar pattern characteristics of the remedy by an
integrated collection of the relevant alterations in the mind and
body.
13. RUBRICS RELATED TO HEAT STROKE
KENT`S REPERTORY
Generalities; sun, from exposure to
Generalities; sun, exertion in.
Head; pain, general, sun, exposure
Head; sunstroke
Head; sunstroke, from having
slept in sun
Head; pain, summer
14. Natrum Carbonicum :Chronic effects of sunstroke, with
return of hot weather, suffers headache.
Glonoinum: Sun headache walking in the sun(Lach,
Nat C).
Antimonium Crudum: Can not bear heat of sun; Worse
from over exertion in sun.(Lach, Nat M);exhausted in
warm weather.
Carbo vegetabilis: Ailments from getting overheated,
clammy cold and very pale, yet wants to be fanned .
Belladonna: Headache with red face ,throbbing of
carotids< least exertion.
Gelsemium : General depression from heat of sun.
headache <heat of sun.
15. Bryonia: Complaints when warm weather
sets in ,getting hot in summer. Headache as
if brain would burst through forehead.
Opium: Head hot,with hot sweat; sleep after
convulsions. Generally low temp with
inclination to stupor.
Nat Mur: headaches as if bursting; from
sunrise to sunset,as through thousands of
hammers were knocking in the brain during
fever.
16. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_stroke
www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/heatillnessinfo.html
Scholarly articles for heat stroke
m. bja.oxfordjournals.org/content/88/5/700.full
Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine,17 edition.
Bouchama A, Knochel JP: Heat stroke. N Engl J Med 346:1978,
2002 [PMID: 12075060]
www.cdc.gov
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