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“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”

Robert Louis Stevenson,  (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet, and author.

Thermic shock occurs when you do not comply with extreme temperature changes and act accordingly.

Many people, mostly youngsters lose their lives when plunging in water without giving the body time to adapt.

Such an event even happens most frequently in summer because a person is unaware of this possibility.

The heart does not tolerate it and reacts with the so-called Takosubo‘s cardiopathy.

In this situation the heart engages in inefficient contractures, and even fibrillation.

In the opposite direction sunstroke is a poorly understood condition, especially happening in hot climates, but also in temperate ones when there is excess exposure to sun rays.

Wearing a straw hat (panama or sombrero type for instance) has a protective value.

If the organism cannot evacuate the heat excess efficiently, an insolation occurs.

Disorientation, drowsiness, and loss of contact to reality follow.

Sometimes an epileptic seizure can be observed. Lowering of seizure threshold!

On morphological basis, brain arterial and venous thromboses appear.

Such occurrences are unexpected in temperate climates, but they happen more frequently with the climate warming phenomenon, and apart of that there are sometimes so-called sun eruptions, which are completely unexpected.