Doctors are asking parents and anyone else who looks after children to be especially alert in the kind of June heat that has developed in recent days.“Kids deal with thermoregulation, that is how they manage exposure to heat, differently than adults,” said Dr. Brad Sobolewiski. “Preschool children and under don’t recognize that they’re hot. They don’t recognize that they’re thirsty. They really rely on their parents and caregivers to see that they’re getting overheated.”Sobolewiski is an emergency room doctor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.He says even good hydration might not be enough when temperatures are as hot as they’ve been in recent days.“It could be very hot 95 or 100 degrees out, and even if you’re drinking every 20 minutes, that heat can still overwhelm your body’s ability to cool off, especially if you are not getting out of the heat and giving your body time to acclimate back to a cooler temperature,” Sobolewiski said.The warning comes in the middle of summer camp season.At Zeigler Park in Over-the-Rhine, 3CDC has a camp every summer.When it gets this hot, there’s less basketball and track activities, more chess, art and STEM programs.For the full fight against the heat, they’ve found the pool is the best tool“We do daily pool rotations for our summer camp, but due to the heat today, we’re increasing our pool time for all of our campers,” said 3CDC marketing director Emily Stowe. “We’re trying keep them cool and keep everybody safe.”
Doctors are asking parents and anyone else who looks after children to be especially alert in the kind of June heat that has developed in recent days.
“Kids deal with thermoregulation, that is how they manage exposure to heat, differently than adults,” said Dr. Brad Sobolewiski. “Preschool children and under don’t recognize that they’re hot. They don’t recognize that they’re thirsty. They really rely on their parents and caregivers to see that they’re getting overheated.”
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Sobolewiski is an emergency room doctor at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital.
He says even good hydration might not be enough when temperatures are as hot as they’ve been in recent days.
“It could be very hot 95 or 100 degrees out, and even if you’re drinking every 20 minutes, that heat can still overwhelm your body’s ability to cool off, especially if you are not getting out of the heat and giving your body time to acclimate back to a cooler temperature,” Sobolewiski said.
The warning comes in the middle of summer camp season.
At Zeigler Park in Over-the-Rhine, 3CDC has a camp every summer.
When it gets this hot, there’s less basketball and track activities, more chess, art and STEM programs.
For the full fight against the heat, they’ve found the pool is the best tool
“We do daily pool rotations for our summer camp, but due to the heat today, we’re increasing our pool time for all of our campers,” said 3CDC marketing director Emily Stowe. “We’re trying keep them cool and keep everybody safe.”
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