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It’s summertime, and the heat is on. In many regions across the US, we do not see just high temperatures. We see record-breaking high temperatures.

These highs become more concerning as they are coming in heatwaves and persisting for days and even weeks at a time.

The team at Foot Palace has brought the following tips and ideas together to help you avoid heat-related health issues and thoroughly enjoy your summer.

How to Drop Your Core Temperature

To avoid heat stroke and heat exhaustion, keep your body at its average temperature. For the majority of people, that temperature is 98.6 F (37 C). Here’s how to lower and regulate your core temperature naturally and effectively:

Stay Hydrated – Your body loses water by sweat, breath, and urination. Replacing this water with cool beverages keeps your body temperature regulated and functioning well.

Avoid alcoholic or caffeinated drinks, soda, and other drinks high in sugar. These have a diuretic effect and can quickly lead to dehydration and over-heating of the body.

If you have diabetes, take diuretics (water pills), have high blood pressure, or take prescription medication, speak with your doctor about how much and what you should or should not drink.

Take Frequent Breaks – If you work outside, take frequent breaks to rehydrate, and cool off. If you begin to feel nauseated, dizzy, or weak, get help immediately.

Take a Cool Bath – One of the most fabulous ways to lower your body temperature is to treat yourself to a relaxing cooling bath.

Eat Light – Fruits and vegetables like cucumbers, watermelon, mango, strawberries, celery, and spinach all have high water content and will help you stay hydrated. Eating them refrigerated will help reduce your core temperature very quickly.

Eating hot or heavy meals on summer days will raise your body temperature. Wait until sundown or when the temperatures are milder for these meals.

How to Cope with High Heat and Humidity

When you have high heat and high humidity, your body’s natural cooling system (evaporating sweat) can’t function properly. You sweat, and it just stays there.

During these times, running the air conditioner will help alleviate both the heat and humidity.

If your home does not have air conditioning, the power is out, or it has stopped working, frequent cool baths or showers during the day will help you avoid overheating.

Another option is to find an air-conditioned hangout like a mall, library, theater, or day spa.

Sunscreen Safety Tips

One of the most annoying things that can happen in the summer is to get a sunburn. They are sensitive, hot to the touch, and damaging to the skin.

Also known as sun exposure or UV exposure, sunburns damage the skin’s DNA and typically result in a 3 – 5 day stretch of pain, fever, nausea, and fatigue.

Sunscreen is a highly useful tool to create a barrier between the sun’s UV rays and your skin. The following will help you maximize its effects:

Look for a brand that protects from UV-A and UV-B rays with a sun protection factor (SPF) of 15 or higher (the higher, the better).
Apply sunscreen thickly and thoroughly at least 30 minutes before sun exposure.
Apply to all parts of your body exposed to the sun. Including your ears, back, shoulders, and back of the knees.
Reapply it after swimming, exercising, or performing strenuous activities.
Reapply it frequently when outside for long periods of time.

Summer Safety Tips for Kids and Seniors

Most vulnerable to summer and heat-related illnesses are our children and our senior citizens. The following tips will help you to keep them from harm’s way during the hottest months of the year:

Parked Cars – Never leave senior citizens or children in parked cars. On a 100 degree day, the internal temperature of a vehicle parked in the sun can rapidly rise to lethal temperatures of 130 to 170 degrees.

Hats and UV Protective Clothing – Broad-brimmed hats and clothing with a high UV protection factor work exceedingly well to protect sensitive skin from the sun’s UV rays.

The brim of the hat should be broad enough to cover the face, ears, and the back of the neck. And, even with the hat, apply sunscreen to the face, neck, and ears.

Sunscreen – Use a broad-spectrum SPF 30 or higher sunscreen containing zinc oxide or titanium dioxide which block the sun’s UV rays.

Reapply sunscreen immediately after leaving the water. Always protect ears, nose, lips, front and back of legs, and feet even when it is cloudy.

Know Where to Go – In the event of a power outage during a heatwave, both kids and seniors should relocate to an air-conditioned location like a mall, library, theater, or restaurant. Staying in the home as the heat rises could prove harmful or even deadly.

Specifically for Seniors – Due to illnesses or medication, a senior may not be aware that they are feeling hot or dehydrated. Likewise, most seniors live on a strict budget and will hesitate to run their AC for extended periods of time.

As family, friends, and neighbors, it is essential to be vigilant of the health and wellness of each other. Make sure our seniors stay out of harm’s way by checking in on them from time to time – reminding them to keep cool.

Watch this video to learn how to keep seniors safe from heatstroke.

Beat the Heat for a Healthy Summer

Summer health is a question of protecting your skin, hydrating your body, and keeping your body temperature regulated.

Not everyone is successful at keeping cool. If someone is displaying the warning signs of a heat stroke, your immediate response may save their life.

Signs of a heat stroke include hot red skin, fast pulse, headache, dizziness, confusion, and loss of consciousness. In these cases, immediately do the following:

Call 9-1-1, this is a medical emergency.
Do not allow the person to consume any food or drink.
Move the person to a cooler place.
Lower the person’s temperature using wet cloths or a cool bath.
Stay with the person until assistance arrives.

Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov
https://www.nsc.org/home-safety/tools-resources/seasonal-safety/summer
http://www.houstontx.gov/health/heatillness.html
http://heatkills.org/how-hot/
https://blog.cedars-sinai.edu/5-fun-sun-safety-tips-kids/

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Your health and wellness depend on your ability to balance the bills, family matters, kids, relationships, deadlines, business trips, and other people’s problems on top of your daily routine. And not to forget, you need to eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep to do it all again tomorrow.

With so much going on in your daily, weekly, and monthly routine, stress and anxiety can quickly begin to compromise your health, mood, and overall wellness.

Just as life can get chaotic and busy, it can (and does) get calm and slow down. It is in these slower moments that there’s an opportunity to regain your balance. Sometimes it’s yoga, reading a book on the beach, getting a spa massage, or better, heading to a wellness retreat.

Below, the Foot Palace team discusses the benefits and types of retreats designed to help you relax, recover, and reset so you can get back to peak performance.

Top Benefits of a Health and Wellness Retreat

Refuge, seclusion, and privacy are all words attributed to “retreat”. Wellness retreats offer a safe place for slowing down and rejuvenating mind and body.

Stress Relief – The most important benefit that any retreat can offer is the reduction of stress. Stress affects us adversely in a number of ways which in turn can lead to your health being negatively impacted and compromised.

“Everyone feels stress in different ways and reacts to it in different ways. How much stress you experience and how you react to it can lead to a wide variety of health problems — and that’s why it’s critical to know what you can do about it.

“When stress is excessive, it can contribute to everything from high blood pressure, also called hypertension, to asthma to ulcers to irritable bowel syndrome ,” said Ernesto L. Schiffrin, M.D., Ph.D., physician-in-chief at Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, and professor and vice chair of research for the Department of Medicine at McGill University in Montreal.”
– Excerpt from ‘Stress and Heart Health’ – American Heart Association

Focus and Balance – Before you can effectively cope with everything on a daily basis, you must first prioritize and create harmony in your personal, professional, and romantic life.

A retreat can help you regain focus and balance by allowing you to step away from routines and responsibilities; thus allowing you to reconnect with your inner silence and peace.

Me Time Without the Guilt – The time spent at a retreat is scheduled “me” time. You do as you choose without feeling guilty about it. Paint, sleep, write, exercise, this is your opportunity to reconnect with yourself and make sense of where you are on your life journey.

The Retreat for Your Health and Wellness

The retreat experience has evolved over time, and offerings now include specialized services and unique settings that cater to the diverse preferences of the market. Each flaunts a unique setting or service, and here are a few of the countless retreat experiences available:

Wellness Spa Retreat
Yoga Retreat
Marriage Retreat
Couples Retreat
Beach Retreat
Mountain Retreat
Meditation Retreat
Rainforest Retreat
Massage Retreat
Spiritual Retreat
Detox Retreat
Holistic Retreat
Village Retreat

Wellness Retreats Customized – In the majority of cases, the retreat you choose will offer a selection of package deals, allowing you to indulge and experience as much or little as you desire. These facilities aim to please and often welcome requests or accommodations (within their ability) to ensure your happiness, wellness, eventual return, and good review.

4 Blissful Wellness Retreat Destinations

As the wellness industry has grown in the Western world, so to have retreat options. Outlined below are a few varied suggestions that offer an expansive and diverse retreat experience.

Mountain Trek in Tecate, Mexico – Situated on the Rancho La Puerta in Tecate, Mexico, Mountain Trek is a prime location to de-stress and detoxify. Whether you need time to reflect or take a scenic nature hike, you will be far removed from the daily stressors encountered at home.

Chakra Retreat in Ocotal, Costa Rica – Located upon a two acre hilltop above the beaches of Ocotal and with incredible scenery including volcanic mountains and the Gulf of Papagayo, this Villa is home to a luxurious women’s retreat. If it’s a pampering getaway with healing and restorative workshops you seek, this is your destination.

Blue Heaven Resort and Spa in Boone, NC – Nestled in the amazing Blue Ridge Mountains, Blue Heaven offers affordable packages for the adventurous and those seeking to simply relax. Spa treatments, meditation, yoga sessions, and much more await in the mountains of North Carolina.

Harbin Hot Springs in Middletown, CA – Among the oldest of California’s hot springs, Harbin Hot Springs is situated North of Napa Valley and offers the ultimate “digital detox escape”. You’ll find that their no phone and internet policy will greatly contribute to your ability to de-stress and rejuvenate. With daily yoga and meditation, you’ll find that shedding your troubles in this setting will be easier than you think.

Your Health and Wellness Depend on Balance

Your ability to be productive and make an impact demands that your health and mental wellness be in top form. Your health and State of well-being depend on your ability to effectively balance you are a professional, personal, and emotional stressors.

At times, a retreat is the answer to maintaining that balance and restoring your harmonious state. It is the opportunity to separate yourself, reclaim your inner peace, shed any stress, and regain your balance.

Because your mental and emotional well-being dictate your quality-of-life, they cannot be overlooked or ignored. Set aside some time and plan a retreat – you and your loved ones will thank you.

Source:
www.heart.org/HEARTORG/Conditions/More/MyHeartandStrokeNews/Stress-and-Heart-Health_UCM_437370_Article.jsp