Dehydration
Own Explanation:
Dehydration must be treated by replenishing the fluid level in the body. This can be done by consuming
clear fluids such as water, clear broths, frozen water or ice pops, or sports drinks (such as Gatorade).
Some dehydration patients, however, will require intravenous fluids in order to rehydrate.
Own Example:
if you have a sore throat, you might find it hard to swallow food or drinks. And if you have a fever, water
evaporates from your skin in an attempt to cool your body down. You also can get dehydrated from lots
of physical activity (like during sports).
Overexertion
Own Explanation:
Follow these steps to avoid overexertion you need to stand close to what you are lifting, place your feet
wide apart to give yourself a solid base, bend your knees instead of your hips and back, tighten your
core muscles to help you lift the object, and use your leg muscles to lift, not your back.
Own Example:
Back injuries. This is the most common type of injury and accounts for over 60% of overexertion injuries,
ranging from mild strains to serious spinal cord injury. Severe injuries may require surgery and physical
therapy.
Neck injuries. Any injury to the neck can cause severe pain and disorientation.
Muscle strains. Commonly occurs when pushing, pulling, lifting, or carrying.
Injuries to the joints, tendons, and connective tissues. Overexertion can harm or tear these vital parts of
the body, leading to severe pain and sometimes requiring corrective surgery.
Hypothermia
Own Explanation:
Use layers of dry blankets or coats to warm the person. Cover the person's head, leaving only the face
exposed. Insulate the person's body from the cold ground. If you're outside, lay the person on his or her
back on a blanket or other warm surface.
Own Example:
Exposure to colder-than-normal temperatures can also cause hypothermia. For example, if you step into
an extremely cold, air-conditioned room immediately after being outside, you risk losing too much body
heat in a short period.
Hyperthermia
Own Explanation:
Properly protecting yourself from the heat and possible hyperthermia is easy to do! When playing
outside in hot weather:
Take frequent breaks, drink plenty of water, wear cool clothing, and find a cool shady place to rest.
If spending time indoors during a heat wave, try to find an area with air conditioning or a fan.
Own Example:
Hyperthermia is usually caused by either heat stroke or drugs. There are two types of heat stroke:
exertional or non-exertional.
Intervention:
Better awareness of risks, improved knowledge of personal
safety procedures, and fewer distractions can mean that
stress-related absences reduce, and staff are less likely to be injured as a result of a personal safety
incidents
Depending on the type of activity, injury risk can be augmented with increased intensity, frequency and
duration of activity. To minimize the risk of activity-induced injuries, you should be aware of the signs of
over-exertion (such as breathlessness and muscle soreness), and take reasonable precautions.
Coming to the importance, if you adopt personal safety then you may have good overall health, less
stress, devoid of any injury or illness, etc. Your personal safety is a general recognition and avoidance of
possible harmful situations or persons in your surroundings.
Prevention is better than cure. Good morning one and all present here. As we all know that
awareness, education, preparedness, and prediction and warning systems can reduce the disruptive
impacts of a natural disaster on communities. As the youth of the country, it is our duty to protect our
own selves, our family, and also our acquaintance.
Typically, we can quantify disasters into two main categories: natural and man- made.
Natural disasters are events created by catastrophic forces in nature, such as floods, hurricanes
earthquakes and so on. While these disasters can have their origins influenced by humankind, they
typically are 1) normal for that area and 2) have a history of occurring within these areas. Earthquakes in
California are relatively normal. Earthquakes in Missouri, not so much….
Man-made disasters such as oil spills, chemical hazards, cutting trees and so on - are
typically things that happen directly due to man's attention or inattention to technology in some way.
Here, an awareness of your “environment” is crucial just ask facility managers who work at hospitals, or
power company employees responsible for power sub-station distribution. Messing up, even on one
thing, and you may have a disaster on hand, such as when your back-up generators don't ki k on when
the power grid drops, and patients in ICU and NICU wards die because there was no power to life-
sustaining equipment. This is why humans, as “thinking animals" have plans and procedures and policies
and back-ups and uninterruptable power supplies, and so on. It gets more difficult when you pair
“environmental awareness “and “natural disasters." How do you mitigate a hurricane? It doesn't matter
if you have top weather computers accurately predicting what will happen when - humanity has very
little control over natural disasters. Now here is where in my experience people will insert the trope of
humanity's damage w to the environment and natural disasters. Yes, there are things human kind has
done on a whole that has affected our environment, but we have still yet to discover what behavior,
performed or inhibited, has caused or stopped an earthquake, a blizzard, a hurricane, etc. So let us save
that argument for a later date. So, mitigating natural disasters isn't going to happen. But what we can
mitigate is the effects that disaster imposes on us. As a brief aside you can also decide to avoid certain
disasters; I don't deal with hurricanes, floods or earthquakes based upon an informed decision of where
I choose to live. I would rather deal with blizzards and field fires, which do happen, so avoidance is more
about choosing what you are willing to deal with rather than avoidance altogether.
I'm saying this based upon the question being written as “How DOES EDUCATION ABOUT
environmental awareness and its risk factor underlying disasters so that young people will be equipped
with knowledge on how to mitigate the effect of a disaster?”
Study your environment, recognize the disasters in the past historically, study the area and
determine disasters that could occur, and make plans to prevent the disaster from occurring in the first
place, or plans to mitigate the effects of the disaster if it cannot be prevented.
Mitigation measures such as the adoption of zoning, land-use practices, and building codes are needed
to prevent or reduce actual damage from hazards.
Be smart and be safe. Thank You!
Josh: Hello everyone!
Rhexzie: Hello Josh, and Hi Hannah! How are you doing?
Hannah: I'm not in good shape. So, how about you?
Rhexzie: I'm in good condition. What happened to you, on the other hand?
Hannah: Nothing serious, but I feel very weak.
Rhexzie: You appear to be highly unconcerned about your health. It's possible that you
don't get enough exercise on a regular basis.
Hannah: Yes, you are entirely correct. Physical activity is not something I do on a
regular basis.
Rhexzie: However, you should be aware that physical activity is critical for staying in
shape. Because a healthy mind resides in a healthy body.
Hannah: Yes, you are right.
Rhexzie: You cannot keep yourself fit and do anything properly if you do not engage in
regular physical activity. Furthermore, you will become idle. Right Josh?
Josh: Having regular activity makes your body active. Rhexzie has a point there.
Hannah: It seems to me you are absolutely correct Rhexzie. Now tell me what I should
do?
Rhexzie: Physical activity should be done on a regular basis. Aside from that, you
should eat a well-balanced diet to stay in shape.
Hannah: What do you mean by a balanced diet? Please tell me in detail.
Rhexzie: A balanced diet means to take regular food containing all the necessary
ingredients needed for health in right proportion.
Hannah: As far as I can tell, both regular physical activity and a well-balanced diet are
critical for good health.
Rhexzie: Exactly! I hope you will follow both of the rules to keep yourself fit.
Hannah: Your intelligent recommendations are much appreciated. Thank you very
much.
Rhexzie: You're more than welcome.