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Heat stroke occurs when your body temperature rises, you do not perspire enough to bring it down, and it creates neurological and physical symptoms. It can be fatal if not treated.

5 Great Resources on Heat Stroke

• Medicine Net: Melissa Conrad Stöppler, MD, shares information on heat stroke.
• American Red Cross: Heat Related Illness
• University of Maryland Medical Center: Dehydration and Heat Stroke
• About.com: Heat Stroke
• Health World: First Aid for Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke

What is Heat Stroke?

• InteliHealth: What is Heat Stroke?
• About.com: What is Heat Stroke?
• LiveScience: What is Heat Stroke?
• DrGreene: What is Heat Stroke?
• Coaches Corner: Prepare Yourself for Heat Emergency

What Are The Symptoms of Heat Stroke?

• American Red Cross: Stages of Heat-Related Illness
• WebMD: Understanding Heat-Related Illness - Symptoms
• Everyday Health: Symptoms – Heat Stroke
• Palo Alto Medical Foundation: Heat Stroke Symptoms

What Are The Causes and Complications of Heat Stroke?

• How Stuff Works: What Causes Heat Stroke?
• Health Scout: Causes and Risk Factors of Hyperthermia
• Mayo Clinic: Heat Stroke: Causes
• C-Health: Causes of Heat Stroke
• HealthLink: Heat Related Illnesses Can Quickly Become Serious

What Are The Treatments and Medications for Heat Stroke?

• Kids Health: Heat Exhaustion and Heatstroke Instruction Sheet
• eMedicine Health: Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke Treatment
• WebMD: Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke Treatment
• About.com: Heat Stroke Treatment
• Survive Outdoors: Heat Stroke Treatment
• Mayo Clinic: Heat Stroke: Treatment
• Moms Team: Dehydration Treatment

What Are The Holistic and Alternative Treatments for Heat Stroke?

• Homeopathy Clinic: Heat Stroke & Exhaustion
• A.D.A.M: Treatment Options
• Yahoo! Health: Beat the Heat

What Are The Types, Stages and Survival Rates of Heat Stroke?

• Centers for Disease Control: Heat Stress in the Elderly
• National Institute on Aging: Hyperthermia: Too Hot for Your Health
• Body and Health Canada: Heat Stroke: Condition Fact Sheet
• Misting Health Benefits: Types of Heat Stroke
• The Doctor Will See You Now: Watch Out for Heat Stroke

How Do You Prevent Heat Stroke?

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Extreme Heat: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health and Safety
• Medline Plus: Heat Emergencies: Prevention
• Better Health Channel: Heat Stress: Preventing Heat Stroke
• Tail Gate Safety: Preventing Heat Stress

Wisdom, Personal Experiences and Blogs about Heat Stroke

• Word Press: Heat Stroke Blog
• Idaho State Journal: How to Avoid Heat Stroke
• Chatanooga Times Free Press: Still Fighting Off Heat Stroke
• Suite 101: Runner's Guide to Heat Stroke
• MedicineNet: Audio Podcast: Surviving Heat Stroke

Foundations and Support Groups on Heat Stroke

• Kendrick Fincher Memorial Foundation: Promoting Hydration and Prevention of Heat Illness
• American Red Cross: Heat Related Illness

Message Boards, Chat and Discussions about Heat Stroke

• Firehouse Forums: Food for Thought: Heat Stroke
• ThumperTalk: Heat Stroke
• Health Boards: Heat Stroke
• eHealth Forum: Heat Stroke

Scientific and Medical Journal Articles on Heat Stroke

• Environmental Protection Agency: Excessive Heat Events Guidebook
• eMedicine: Heatstroke
• American Family Physician: Management of Heatstroke and Heat Exhaustion
• New England Journal of Medicine: Heat Stroke
• U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine: Heat Stroke
• Critical Care: Treatment of Heat Stroke: Should Dantrolene Be Considered?

Clinical Trials on Heat Stroke

• Clinical Trials: Cisplatin, Metronomic Low-Dose Interferon Alfa, Gemcitabine, and Fever-Range Whole-Body Hyperthermia in Treating Patients With Inoperable or Metastatic Pancreatic Cancer
• University of Chicago Medical Center: Classic Heat Stroke During Chicago 1995 Heat Wave
• Journal of Clinical Investigation: Heat Stroke: Clinical And Chemical Observations on 44 Cases

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