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The City Council on Thursday began the campaign "Watch your life, protect from heat" (13/07/2010)

The aim of the initiative is to raise public awareness, especially over the need to be well hydrated to avoid the dreaded hot flashes.

The campaign takes place between the departments of Health Policy and the Red Cross Staff

The Aldermen of Health and Policy Staff, and Mari Carmen López Antonia Ruiz, presented this morning, along with the local Red Cross president, Juan Carlos Garcia, the campaign to prevent heat stroke this year will be developed under the name "Watch your life, protect yourself from the heat."

The mayors have reported that the campaign provides that next Thursday beginning at 9 am and Friday at 10 in the Plaza de Calderón will proceed to the distribution of informational leaflets with a series of recommendations to avoid the effects of heat as well as sharing water bottles and cartons of juice that have been donated by Eroski Almenara.

The aim of these actions is to raise public awareness of the need to be well hydrated, so it will calculate the proportion of 300 individual juices provided by Eroski Almenara, and 500 bottles of water within the municipal campaign of sun protection and prevention of heat stroke.

Municipal sources also stressed that "have been published 5,000 new brochures to remind that it is very important to stay hydrated with water or juice, sunscreen be adapted to the area of the body, age, and consume lots of fresh fruit.

The leaflets, in which people offer advice on how to act in the hours when temperatures reach their highest registers, will be distributed in addition to this morning in the market, senior centers, with to disseminate these recommendations as possible. "

Antonia Lopez indicated that "the City Council believe that this campaign has yielded positive results in previous years and therefore we are committed to strengthen it in this exercise, keeping this point for many citizens who come to do their shopping here."

The mayor of Major Policy, Mari Carmen Ruiz, said that "this campaign will be aimed to raise awareness of the special way to our major adverse effects have the heat and sun when the temperature extremes recorded the arrival summer.

The elderly, along with children and outdoor workers are the group most susceptible to suffer the dreaded heat stroke and sunburn to suffer the skin.

It is recalled that the heat does not affect all people equally, as there are groups more sensitive to the effects of high temperatures.

In this context we find people over 65 and children under 4, which is in addition to people with cardiovascular disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's, respiratory diseases or mental disabilities, workers and people exposed to the sun, and people treatment with drugs such as diuretics, beta blockers and antidepressants, and obese people.

Exposure to excessive temperatures may cause health problems such as cramps, dehydration, sunstroke, heat stroke and sunburn.

This year we will also use the traffic light panels that exist in our village to send tips to avoid heatstroke.

This year, based on the forecasts we consulted and we anticipate a particularly hot summer, the City Council of Lorca we decided to anticipate in time and intensify our campaign of awareness. "

From City Hall, as measures to prevent heat stroke, especially in the elderly and children, had to avoid direct exposure to the sun in the hottest hours of the day, to accompany our seniors living alone, avoid sunburn by applying barrier creams solar, avoiding physical activity in the middle of the day, drink water frequently, cover their heads with hats or caps, to avoid hot foods and slow digestion, wearing sunglasses, no alcohol, increased consumption of fruits and vegetables and lightweight clothing and footwear.

Municipal sources have stressed that "human exposure to high ambient temperatures may cause an alteration of our vital functions in the event that our body is not able to compensate for temperature variations.

In fact, a very high temperature leads to loss of water and electrolytes that are necessary for normal functioning of various organs. "

Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca

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