ISLAMABAD: The experts suggest people to wear light-coloured and loose-fitting clothes as well as avoid direct exposure to sun to beat the heat as according to studies, rising temperature may cause dehydration, heat exhaustion and heat stroke if people do not take extra care.
These studies reveal that in many cases, blood cells burst causing massive bleeding due to persistent heat. In addition, there are also chances of ceasing of the cardiac activity at high temperatures while the consistent high temperature in environment may cause stiffness of muscles bringing them in contracted state.
The symptoms in case of heat exhaustion are impaired consciousness, prolonged durations of sleep, restlessness and irritability, thunderclap, headache, blurring of vision, tremors and fits and scanty dark urine in decreased quantity.