With several more days of extreme heat in store across the area, another warning goes out -- especially to parents -- to keep a close eye on their kids.
For kids, extreme heat is considered anything over 90 degrees, and we're definitely going to be seeing that. Kids can get overheated very quickly. Kids and the elderly are the ones we really worry about with getting overheated, heat exhaustion, and heat stroke," says Washington University pediatric emergency medicine specialist Dr. Jamie Condis at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
Condis suggests keeping kids indoors -- but definitely not letting them outside longer than an hour at a time to play. "If they are going to be outside longer, really keeping a close eye on them, putting them in lightweight, light-colored clothing, wearing a hat, giving them lots of fluids -- avoiding really sugary beverages, because the sugar can really cause you to lose more body fluids."
And Condis adds, keep a close eye on the first signs of heat exhaustion -- heavy sweating, a heat rash, cramping, nausea or dizziness.