{"id":24179,"date":"2022-06-13T23:11:47","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=24179"},"modified":"2022-06-13T23:11:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T03:11:49","slug":"what-extreme-heat-does-to-the-human-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2022\/06\/what-extreme-heat-does-to-the-human-body\/","title":{"rendered":"What extreme heat does to the human body"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With extremely hot and humid weather covering a good part of the eastern US this week, it is important to know what that kind of temperature extreme can do to the human body. I&#8217;ve already heard a few stories about people who were affected by the heat as they worked outside today. <em>Time<\/em> posted <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/6186988\/extreme-heat-human-body-impact\/?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=sfmc&amp;utm_campaign=newsletter+health-monday+default+ac&amp;utm_content=+++20220613+++body&amp;et_rid=207306100&amp;lctg=207306100\">a story that explains how heat illnesses are caused<\/a> and how they can affect the human body over time. Make sure you understand how to spot heat stroke and other heat-related illnesses and treat them as soon as you see them. Better yet, take care of yourself and don&#8217;t get sick in the first place! Heat can also affect livestock and pets, so make sure that you can keep them cool as well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3936\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog.jpg 480w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/08\/shaking-dog-138x138.jpg 138w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With extremely hot and humid weather covering a good part of the eastern US this week, it is important to know what that kind of temperature extreme can do to the human body. I&#8217;ve already heard a few stories about people who were affected by the heat as they worked outside today. Time posted a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":3936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24180,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24179\/revisions\/24180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}