The heat in summer

[Anonymous]

DC loves outdoor summer camp. It is really hot and humid under the heat. Normally he can get through it. I recalled he had fever and sick for a week one summer, fever and sick for a few days another summer, and he is out sick again for 2 days this summer. As an adult, I can't survive the heat like he does, but I know kids are different. Is it common for kids to get sick and out of summer camps like this due to the summer heat?

[Anonymous]

High temperatures don’t make people sick or give them fevers. Illnesses do that. The issue is that your kid is in close proximity to other germ magnets.

[Anonymous]

High temperatures dont generally make people sick. I guess it could wear on your system and make you more susceptible. But probably just a coincidence.

[Anonymous]

My kid gets sick because it's a new batch of kids and their germs every week. Nothing to do with heat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid gets sick because it's a new batch of kids and their germs every week. Nothing to do with heat.

+1

[Anonymous]

While heat doesn’t cause infection, it can be dangerous. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke are serious concerns.

[Anonymous]

You can get heat stroke certainly as a kid.

[Anonymous]

The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

[Anonymous]

he will be fine.
let him go

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

The climate is much hotter than 100 years ago when people didn’t have AC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

+1 And summer camps aren't stupid. They know to do lots of breaks and hydration and activities in shady areas in the heat of the day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

The climate is much hotter than 100 years ago when people didn’t have AC.

No it's not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

The climate is much hotter than 100 years ago when people didn’t have AC.

No it's not.

Don’t take my word for it. You can see the data for yourself!

“2024 was the warmest year since global records began in 1850. The global average surface temperature was 2.32 Fahrenheit (1.29 degrees Celsius) above the 20th-century average (57.0 degrees Fahrenheit, or 13.9 degrees Celsius) and 2.63 degrees Fahrenheit (1.46 degrees Celsius) above the pre-industrial average (56.7 degrees Fahrenheit, or 13.7 degrees Celsius), which NOAA defines as the period from 1850-1900.”

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/understanding-climate/climate-change-global-temperature


What are you gonna do about that? Just ignore data that doesn’t support your own bias?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High temperatures don’t make people sick or give them fevers. Illnesses do that. The issue is that your kid is in close proximity to other germ magnets.

I'm sorry, WHAT?

Look up "heat sickness".
Look up "dehydration related diseases"
You could be miles away from everyone with food and water in a desert somewhere but if your kid is active and/or doesn't hydrate well, they could get a few bad things. You can get sick due to an autoimmune condition or something like scid while not being near anyone at all.
Baseball players have needed to be walked off the field by med staff due to heat exaustion.

We hit double digits today in DC. Keep everyone safe, encourage good hydration and plents of breaks for shade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The more you expose yourself to it, the less you will notice it.
Humans lived without AC for our entire existence until the last few decades.

The climate is much hotter than 100 years ago when people didn’t have AC.

Maybe by 10 degrees (excluding outliers such as ice ages when even modern day people would not need/want
ac).
10 degrees hotter does not merit 30 degrees of ac (cooling a house from 100 to 70, something many people would have done today if ac had not been used prior and the house was allowed to rech outside temps.