The heat wave has continued across the country for several days. With the "fire" weather, the word "hot shooting disease" is trending. Since July, there have been a number of heat stroke cases and even deaths in many places across the country.

"The death rate from heat stroke in elderly patients can reach more than 80 percent." Dong Ye, deputy director of the department of emergency medicine of Beijing Haidian Hospital, reminded the public that the high temperature weather should do a good job of cooling and heat prevention, and the symptoms of heat stroke must be handled in time.

This Saturday, the country will enter its first period of "volts". According to the National Climate Center, the average number of hot days in China since June this year (up to July 12) has been 5.3, 2.4 days longer than the normal period and the most in the same period since 1961.

Hot weather is not only uncomfortable, but also easy to cause heat stroke, even life-threatening. According to media reports, cases of the disease have been reported in zhejiang, Sichuan, Fujian, Jiangsu, Henan and Guangdong provinces.

Wu Jianrong, a doctor at the emergency department of Lishui Central Hospital in Zhejiang Province, said earlier that a 49-year-old male patient suddenly fainted while working in a workshop and was in shock when admitted with a temperature of 40.7 degrees Celsius. After examination, the patient died of multiple organ failure accompanied by disseminated intravascular coagulation. The hospital has received 3 patients with heat stroke in the past week. A 70-year-old female, who did not pay attention to heat stroke at home, developed high fever and blurred consciousness during nap. Her body temperature reached 42.5℃ and multiple organ failure when she was sent to the hospital.

When a man in Zhengzhou, Henan province, was taken to the INTENSIVE care Unit of a hospital in Central China's Henan Province after falling into a coma due to heatstroke, his core temperature had reached 42.3 degrees Celsius, as if all his internal organs had been "boiled" in water.

According to Red Star News, on July 10, west China Hospital of Sichuan University successively admitted 3 patients who were referred for heat stroke disease. One of them suffered from respiratory cardiac arrest when he was transferred to West China Hospital due to his severe condition and multiple organ failure. Despite all-out rescue efforts, he eventually died.

In addition, the topic of "Elderly living alone who cannot bear to turn on the air conditioner suffering from heat stroke" has also attracted widespread attention. According to media reports, an old man in Jiangsu province was found collapsed at home with a temperature of 41.5 degrees Celsius. Send medical examination, the old man suffers from heat shoot disease. It is reported that the elderly living alone in the home is not willing to turn on the air conditioning, stuffy room leading to heat stroke.