ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Summer weather is here early.<\/p>\n
“It’s been such a long winter. It’s just nice to have a little break,” said Rosanne Venditto.<\/p>\n
Venditto and Jeanette Malik are taking advantage of it at Trexler Park in Allentown.<\/p>\n
“We love to walk and we love the nicer weather, so we’re enjoying this immensely,” said Malik.<\/p>\n
Jamie McFadden said he wishes it was just a little bit cooler.<\/p>\n
“Just dressing light and trying to stay in the shade,” said McFadden.<\/p>\n
A couple doctors we spoke with said to be mindful if you are out in unseasonably warm temps, like these.<\/p>\n
“It can actually impact people a lot more than they think it would. That’s because this early in the season, people aren’t really prepared for this,” said Patient First Dr. Heather Osher.<\/p>\n
Dr. Osher said during this warmer than usual weather, our bodies are not cooling down how they are supposed to.<\/p>\n
“It usually takes about two weeks of temperatures at higher levels for the body to actually get used to it,” said Dr. Osher.<\/p>\n
Jefferson Health Dr. Michael Singer said to move to a cool environment, if you notice symptoms, like feeling weak, lightheaded, dizzy and nauseous.<\/p>\n
“Either shade or an air-conditioned environment. Drink water and try to minimize physical exertion and rest and let your body temperature regulate itself,” said Dr. Singer.<\/p>\n
He said it can be good to adjust routines too.<\/p>\n
“If you’re someone who goes for an afternoon run at noon or at 3 p.m., sometimes moving that to the morning or evening if you know that the temperature is going to be very high can be helpful,” said Dr. Singer.<\/p>\n
Doctors said elderly patients, people on certain medications and infants are some groups of people who could be more at risk for heat-related emergencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Summer weather is here early. “It’s been such a long winter. It’s just nice to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[214,119,121,120,232],"class_list":["post-166970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-allentown-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}