Symptoms and treatment of heat stroke in pregnant women

Pregnant mothers have always been a group that has received much attention in society. Their bodies are very weak and they need to distribute the energy in their bodies to their children, so they are often prone to endocrine disorders. Especially in the summer, if they do not take appropriate care measures, they are often prone to symptoms of heat stroke. Let's learn about the symptoms and treatments of heat stroke in pregnant women.

The patient should be quickly moved to a cool and ventilated place to rest and drink beverages such as cool salt water to replenish the loss of salt and water. Patients with peripheral circulatory failure should be given intravenous saline, glucose solution and potassium chloride. The prognosis for patients with heat stroke is serious and the mortality rate is high. Survivors may suffer permanent brain damage, so active rescue is required.

1. External cooling

Designed to rapidly reduce deep body temperature. Take off the patient's clothes, blow cool air and spray with cool water or wrap the whole body with cool wet sheets. Ice water immersion is no longer recommended because of the increased risk of complications such as hypotension and shivering. However, if other methods are unable to reduce the temperature, this method may also be considered. However, at this time, deep body temperature needs to be monitored. Once it is lower than 38.5℃, ice water cooling should be stopped to prevent hypothermia.

2. Cooling down the body

If extracorporeal cooling is ineffective, gastric or rectal lavage can be performed with ice saline, peritoneal lavage or hemodialysis can be performed with sterile saline, or autologous blood can be cooled extracorporeally and then reinfused into the body for cooling.

3. Medication to reduce fever

Chlorpromazine has the function of regulating the body temperature center, dilating blood vessels, relaxing muscles and reducing oxygen consumption. When patients have chills, chlorpromazine can be given intravenously while blood pressure is monitored.

4. Symptomatic treatment

Comatose patients are prone to lung infections and bedsores, and require intensive care; provide necessary calories and nutrients to promote recovery, keep the airway open, and give oxygen; actively correct water and electrolyte disorders, and maintain acid-base balance; the rate of fluid replacement should not be too fast to avoid triggering heart failure. If heart failure occurs, fast-acting digitalis preparations should be given; pressor drugs should be used to correct shock; mannitol dehydration should be used to prevent and treat cerebral edema. Hormones have certain effects in treating pulmonary edema, cerebral edema, etc., but excessive dosage can easily lead to infection, and corresponding treatment measures should be taken for various complications.

By understanding the symptoms and treatments of heatstroke in pregnant women, we can get rid of the problem of heatstroke. If heatstroke occurs, we can take some Huoxiang Zhengqi water. Huoxiang Zhengqi water can effectively help us achieve a cool and refreshing effect, and can effectively help us get rid of the headache and fever caused by heatstroke.