Heat Exhaustion/Heat Stroke Instruction Sheet
Article on Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke
FAQ's About Extreme Heat
Heat Illness Prevention Information
Heat-Related Injury to Disaster Relief Workers
Protect Yourself From Heat Stress OSHA(.pdf)
Hydration Guidelines for Youth Sports. (.pdf)
Heat Stress for Pets: It's a Killer.
Heat Stress and Your Pet.
Heat Stroke in Dogs and Cats.
Article on Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke
FAQ's About Extreme Heat
Heat Illness Prevention Information
Heat-Related Injury to Disaster Relief Workers
Protect Yourself From Heat Stress OSHA(.pdf)
Hydration Guidelines for Youth Sports. (.pdf)
Heat Stress for Pets: It's a Killer.
Heat Stress and Your Pet.
Heat Stroke in Dogs and Cats.
Cooling mist can improve team performance in all types of sports.
Athletes practicing and competing in outdoor heat need a way to instantly refresh and cool down. Liquid Shade is ideal for outdoor sports and is a fully portable misting system. Its sprays a refreshing mist to help reduce outdoor temperatures, create a cooling effect, and helps to prevent dehydration and heat related injuries.
And because Liquid Shade is portable, with its heavy-duty wheels and pull handle, you can easily roll it to any sporting event. It’s like having your own sports misting mate that goes everywhere you go. Now you can have a soccer mister, tennis mister, baseball mister, picnic mister, tailgate mister, team mister and more…all in one!
- When players feel better, they're able to play better
- Player performance drops when the weather gets too intense
- With their minds off of the heat, players are able to focus on more important things--like their strategy to win
- Heat is not only uncomfortable, but extremely dangerous too –leading to heat-related illnesses like heat stroke and dehydration. Liquid Shade provides instant relief with cooling mist.
Attention Soccer Moms: Click here to download the US Soccer Association "Heat Hydration Guidelines for Youth Sports."
The article speaks to the physiological/psychological reasons that place children at risk:- Children absorb more heat from a hot environment because they have a greater surface-area to body-mass ratio than adults. The smaller the child the faster the heat absorption.
- Children and adolescents may have a reduced ability to dissipate heat through sweating.
- Children and adolescents frequently do not have the physiological drive to drink enough fluids to replenish sweat losses during prolonged exercise.
- Youth athletes may be more easily distracted when occasions allow for them to rest and rehydrate.
- Some youth athletes may be under intense pressure to make a competitive squad and may not want to report feelings of heat distress or take the appropriate amount of time to rehydrate.
