Heat Injuries can happen at anytime and any place, without advance warning.

Protect the back of your neck with a wet towel, this is where your body's thermostat is located.

When outdoors press your finger tip into your skin to see if your body is dehydrated, first stage of heat injuries.

If you have a dry mouth, and you have no perspiration on you skin, you are in the second stage.

When your vision become dim and you see start see stars.... you are stage 3 and close to blacking out.

Very close to dying...

Keep you body fluids up. Minimum of 1 liter of water (body temperature) each hour, more if you have no skin perspiration.

Whenever possible avoid being out in the direct light of the sun, seek shade at all times.

~Steven H. McGarthwaite

U.S. Army (1968-1995) Retired.