Heat Stroke Danger Highlighted by Teen Football Player's Death
Heat Stroke Danger Highlighted by Teen Football Player's Death
Dr. Eric Kiechle of Medstar Union Memorial Hospital explains to WMAR-2 News how heat stroke can be deadly, like it was for 19-year-old University of Maryland football player Jordan McNair.
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0 -> And we now know what killed a 19-year-old University of Maryland football
3.36 -> player. Jordan McNair's family says he
died in May from heatstroke after a
8.01 -> supervised practice. But how does a young
healthy man die from a heat-related
12.179 -> illness? WMAR-2 New's Nadia Singh
talked to a doctor who says it can happen
16.8 -> to anybody.
19.369 -> Young people and athletes can can die in
these situations is because you can just
24.57 -> say well it's really hot outside. I'm just
pushing myself and trying to be the best
27.72 -> athlete I can be. But doing that can be
deadly,
30.359 -> like it was for Jordan McNair, University
of Maryland freshman who was once just
35.01 -> like these Dunbar High School players.
Obviously with things like heat stroke
38.55 -> and heat exhaustion, those are things
that can kill you. We saw that with
41.91 -> Jordan McNair. Coach Ty Johnson has seen
his share of young talent talent like
46.23 -> McNair. He and his team are vigilant when
players are in hot weather. Kids' safety
50.76 -> is at the forefront of everything that
we do. So we have an organized eight-week
56.25 -> program with a progression of heat
acclimatization, just to prepare the
60.809 -> bodies for heat. A healthy young man, McNair
died from heat stroke after an organized
66.27 -> practice. Heat can be deadly to anybody,
old, young-- and there's a whole spectrum
73.17 -> of heat-related illnesses ranging from
anything from just kind of feeling hot
76.799 -> and uncomfortable, some people get what's
called a heat rash. Exerting yourself
80.189 -> while exercising can get very serious
very quickly. As you get towards the more
85.83 -> severe end of the spectrum, you have
things like heat exhaustion and finally
88.56 -> heat stroke, which is the most severe type.
And without proper hydration and
94.02 -> tempering outside time with AC time, it
can be deadly. Once you develop
98.22 -> heat stroke, which simply means that your
body temperature is elevated, it's almost
102.39 -> as if you have a fever. You have a high
body temperature and on top of that you
105.689 -> also have changes in mental status,
confusion, you can pass out, you can be
111.6 -> very erratic. Signs coaches are always
looking for. We'll get out here and
116.67 -> we'll run sprints, we'll run distances,
things like that. But we always keep an
121.5 -> eye on them to make sure they're not, you
know, being overexerted. In Baltimore,
125.31 -> Nadia Singh, WMAR-2 News.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGpZczM3_G4