Your body is sensitive to temperature change, and extreme heat can make you very sick. Here are some heat-related illnesses to watch out for.
As anyone who has attempted to move around outside in extreme heat can attest, steamy days in the mid-90s are hard on the human body.
In the worst-case scenario, a stretch of hot days and, especially, hot nights can be deadly, particularly for older people who live in oven-like rowhouses without air conditioning.
Benjamin Abella, an emergency medicine physician at Penn Medicine, is also worried about roofers and construction workers who are hurrying to finish projects during the city s housing boom. But anybody who is out for long periods working, gardening or exercising is at risk for heat-related illness in weather like this.
What to do if high temperatures make you sick
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