‘Feels Like 50°C’: Apollo hospital expert explains dangerous impact of heat & humidity

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]There is no sweat. Sweat doesn't help in cooling. Especially it is dangerous for children as well as uh you know elderly population.

[00:00:08]>> Okay.

[00:00:10]Children or children I will say mechanism elderly in car or up like temperature 35 but it feels like 50 due to heat wave. Okay.

[00:00:26]It is mainly due to humidity.

[00:00:29]I mean this environment change you can see. So that humid under So the problem is if the temperature most importantly nowadays I'm noticing even in the night time the temperature is very hot. So problem body is not getting time to unless you are within AC uh body not getting time to release the heat inside. So when there is heat inside your every organ affects most importantly your brain. You get you become more confused. Your heart, your BP, your kidney. These are very prone for damage due to uh constant heat inside. You are So elderly may major problem is they don't sweat. Uh humidity will be over.

[00:01:14]Or sweating will be over. So even they can become totally dehydrated but they will not understand that we are dehydrated. Usually you know sweating say we understand that there is a lot of heat.

[00:01:25]>> So is it life-threatening?

[00:01:26]>> It can be life-threatening. So again the problem is because you are not sweating.

[00:01:31]So by default when we sweat we try to take water or liquid. But because you are not sweating you are not feeling like thirsty. And you are not consuming water but internally your body organs are getting dehydrated especially kidney. So a lot of kidney injury cases we are seeing. Joki sepsis I'm going to say. So dehydrated dehydration dementia deteriorate some of them because they feel confused. Body may again pani sahi se nehi ja raha hai to few people and you need need to take sodium also along with that. I am a proponent of fasting, but this time I think you should take small frequent food. Kam kam karke kyuki bohot sare food me especially fruits me bhi kafi pani hota hai. So, you should take small and frequent food. Even if you don't feel thirsty, you should take adequate water at least 2 to 3 L water we should consume.

[00:02:23]>> Sir, have you seen such patients in your clinic as well?

[00:02:26]>> Yes, I have seen not in clinic. I have seen an emergency patient. They came with hypotension. Matlab BP drop ho jana and we found out the dehydration was the cause. So, elderly dehydration hone se unko kya hota hai? They feel confused.

[00:02:41]They get recurrent fall.

[00:02:43]They they stop passing urine. So, all these symptoms are coming and we we have treated only with IV fluid and they are improving immediately. But that time period is very crucial and especially those who are staying alone alone for them because when you diagnose it is too late. So, just continue to promote that.

[00:03:04]Wear loose fitted wear cotton wear.

[00:03:07]Don't go out 11:00 to 5:00 for sure. If you have AC, try to use AC. Cooler will not that much helpful because of humidity. So, so that is very important.

[00:03:16]>> Sir, have you seen such cases in past also?

[00:03:18]>> Yes, yes. Past but again because due to global warming this time this is little less. Usually temperature and your feeling how much is different. So, humidity is increasing and most importantly again I will stress even night time temperature is high which usually not the case. Usually morning time it is high after 5:00 it is but even you may notice that even 7:00 p.m.

[00:03:41]8:00 p.m. you will feel so hot.

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