The warmth that has been prevailing in Lithuania for the previous week has not disturbed the work rhythm of Klaipėda College Hospital department “Klaipėdas ligoninė” and “Jūrininkų ligoninė”. The variety of sufferers handled right here is about the identical as typical in the summertime. Nevertheless, the work of the medical doctors of the reception-emergency division in Palanga has elevated considerably – every single day they supply emergency help to dozens of traumatized, burned, and insect-bitten sufferers.
Bugs sting
Docs of the Hospitalization Clinic of the Klaipėda College Hospital in Palanga are at the moment below a a lot greater load than typical. The admission-emergency division receives as much as 60 folks a day, together with youngsters.
In line with Laimute Ežerinskienė, head of the Basic Remedy Division, this summer season holidaymakers fairly often go to the hospital as a consequence of hornet, bee or wasp bites and allergic reactions attributable to them.
“Ice cream, fruit, candy drinks appeal to bees and wasps. A hornet flies right into a container left open and infects the oral cavity, nasal space and even the top. After being stung, some folks expertise allergic reactions. For some, very robust, anaphylactic shock happens. The bitten space might be very swollen and painful,” stated the physician. In line with her, 6-8 folks bitten by bugs go to the hospital a day.
Additionally, L. Ežerinskienė observed that quite a lot of folks got here to the Hospital’s Admission-Emergency Division as a consequence of tick bites.
Accidents prevail
In line with the physician, residents and visitors of the resort usually come to the hospital with numerous accidents. We apply each for the best scratches, bruises, sprains, and for critical accidents, fragmentary fractures.
“Trauma is a resort specifics. Vacationers injure themselves whereas using scooters, rollerblades or bicycles, leaping on trampolines or having fun with waterboarding. Some wade within the sea or climb on glass on the seaside. Head accidents, concussions or concussions additionally happen. A few of the injured are drunk individuals”, stated L. Ežerinskienė.
The specialist observed that folks in Palanga usually overdo it whereas having fun with sunbathing. Because of this, sufferers with pores and skin burns or heatstrokes flock to the hospital each summer season.
Persistent illnesses are getting worse
Many sufferers apply to the Admission-Emergency Division of Klaipėda College Hospital’s Hospitalization Clinic in Palanga as a consequence of exacerbated continual illnesses and illnesses: hypertension, coronary heart rhythm issues, cerebrovascular insufficiency, that are provoked by warmth.
“Persistent illnesses can worsen in the course of the holidays. There are instances when folks, having come to relaxation, calm down a lot that they even neglect to take the required and mandatory medicines, they don’t observe the directions and routine of their medical doctors. Because of this, we regularly obtain sufferers with coronary heart rhythm issues, hypertension, angina pectoris, coronary heart assaults and strokes,” noticed L. Ežerinskienė.
Suggestions for warm days
In line with the top of the overall remedy division, scorching summer season days are particularly harmful for well being. The physician advises heat-sensitive folks to keep away from the solar throughout its most energetic time – from 11 am to three pm – to be within the shade, to drink loads of fluids (ideally consuming water, to keep away from alcohol and caffeine), to keep away from heavy bodily exertion, to cowl the top with coverings and to not neglect to make use of sunscreen, to decorate in gentle, free garments.
“Working, exercising within the warmth places a double burden on the center, and this doesn’t move with out penalties. Warmth works slowly and the well being dangers usually develop into obvious when it’s too late to assist – very excessive physique temperatures can injury the mind and different important organs. You may overheat and get sick by staying within the solar for too lengthy, working exhausting or taking part in sports activities on a scorching day, staying in a scorching setting for a very long time,” the specialist notes.
Data from the Communication Service of Klaipėda College Hospital
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– 2024-05-15 00:23:25
