In the week leading up to the 26th, when there were a series of hot days in various places, the number of people who were taken to the hospital due to heat stroke reached 4,551 nationwide according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, which is more than three times the number of the previous week. I understand.

Severe heat is expected to continue until the 3rd of next month, so we need to be more vigilant against heat stroke.

According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the number of people who were taken to the hospital due to heat stroke during the week from the 20th to the 26th of this month was 4,551, a rapid increase of 3.4 times from the previous week.



Of these, four died.



Looking at the degree of each symptom,


▽ "severe" and "moderate" requiring hospitalization were 1507 in total, and


▽ "mild" was 2982.



Looking at the people transported by age,


▽ elderly people aged 65 and over account for 2,458, more than half.



▽ 1493 people aged 18 to under 65


▽ 568 people aged 7 to under 18


▽ 32 people aged 0 to under 7 years old.



Among the places where heat stroke occurred,


▽ "houses" were the most frequent with 1698 people , followed


by


▽ "roads" including sidewalks with 823 people


▽ stadiums and parking lots with 634 people


▽ "workplaces" such as road construction sites There are 419 people.



According to a survey conducted by the Tokyo Metropolitan Medical Inspectorate on people who died of heat stroke in the 23 wards of Tokyo in the summer, more than half of the people who died indoors did not use the air conditioner.



For elderly people who live alone, please try to call attention to them, such as by calling out to family members who live far away or those around you.

Japanese Association for Acute Medicine calls attention to heat stroke

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine has taken preventive measures such as using air conditioners without hesitation, saying that patients with heat stroke may occur at the disaster level while the heat is extremely hot, such as the hot days of 35 degrees or higher in various places. I called on you to do it.



This was called by the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, which is made up of emergency specialists, by holding an online press conference on the 28th.



As a result, the end of the rainy season is earlier than usual, and many people are not accustomed to the heat, so there is a risk that heat stroke patients will occur at the disaster level.



In particular, elderly people


have few opportunities to move their bodies and are not accustomed to the heat


. If they are taking medicines for high blood pressure or diabetes, they are likely to cause


dehydration


. Since there are people who do not use it, the risk of heat stroke is high, and about half of the people who were transported by emergency due to heat stroke in the five years until last year were 65 years old or older.



For this reason, the academic society called for thorough preventive measures such


as refraining from going out unnecessarily and


▽ using the air conditioner without hesitation.



Mr. Masashi Yokobori, Director of the Advanced Critical Care Center of Nippon Medical School Hospital, said, "There is a request to save electricity, but I would like you to postpone saving electricity from the air conditioner and adjust the room temperature diligently. I want people who live alone or who are just asleep to be careful if they are close to them. "