This Is How You Die In Extreme Heat

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Record temperatures across North America have already killed hundreds. Here's what actually happens when overheating turns fatal.

A Maryland woman wipes sweat off her face during a heat wave in Washington, D.C.

The following is what happens if you’re one of the next people whom extreme heat kills, according to W. Lawrence Kenney, an expert in human thermoregulation at Penn State University. If heat stroke occurs, your body might get so hot and divert so much oxygen-rich blood to the skin that it suffocates those vital internal organs, which become hypoxic. Surviving the organ failure that follows might require an emergency transplant.

At that temperature, the tissues in the brain become affected. You may feel it start as a dull headache. Before long, you might not know where you are or what time it is. You might collapse. You may lose consciousness. Your brain might hemorrhage or begin to swell.

 

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