![]() As long as it doesn't have sugar, it's totally good.īEBINGER: Rogers has her own questions. I'm trying to change to sparkling water, but I don't have too much knowledge on how much I can take of it. GOMES: (Through interpreter) Because here, I've been addicted to soda. He knows heat, but he has questions about staying hydrated. UNIDENTIFIED INTERPRETER: (Speaking Portuguese).īEBINGER: An interpreter translates into Portuguese for Gomes, who's from Brazil. ROGERS: So if your pee is dark like this during the day when you're at work, probably means you need to drink more water. On one, a color band from pale yellow to dark gold is a sort of urine hydration barometer. She hands Gomes some tip sheets she got with the email alerts. ROGERS: If you were getting too hot at work and maybe you're starting to get sick, do you know some things to look out for?īEBINGER: So Rogers describes signs of heat exhaustion - dizziness, weakness and sweating a lot. ROGERS: I'm going to have you go straight through there.īEBINGER: Her patient, Luciano Gomes, works construction. ROGERS: Older individuals, outdoor workers, individuals with chronic medical conditions such as heart disease, diabetes or chronic kidney disease.īEBINGER: Also, young athletes training on sweltering fields and people without air conditioning. And the emails suggest Rogers prioritize heat planning with specific patients. REBECCA ROGERS: People are quite vulnerable 'cause their bodies haven't yet adjusted to heat.īEBINGER: For Rogers, that first email and another that arrived as temperatures rose in July bumped heat to the forefront of her conversations in the exam room. ![]() Rebecca Rogers, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, says it's particularly dangerous early in what doctors call the heat season. But in Boston, when temperatures rise past the mid-70s, heat-related hospitalizations and deaths rise, too. It was 83 degrees that day, still not hot enough to trigger an official heat warning. ![]() MARTHA BEBINGER, BYLINE: In Boston, the first heat alert popped into inboxes on June 1. An innovative pilot project is trying to address this by sending heat-alert emails to doctors and nurses in Massachusetts and six states across the country. Well, as the country sizzles, the dangers that heat poses to human bodies have become frighteningly clear, and the risks are much higher for some than others. It has been a summer of successive heat waves. It'll be 98 in Jacksonville, Fla., and 96 in Medford, Ore. Phoenix could see a high temperature of 109 degrees today. ![]()
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