{"id":232219,"date":"2026-06-30T22:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232219\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:06:10","slug":"health-beat-recognizing-heat-related-illness-health-beat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/232219\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Beat: Recognizing heat-related illness | Health Beat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In tonight&#8217;s Health Beat, we&#8217;re exploring how extreme heat can cause a spike in visits to the emergency room.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC says heat exposure is one of the leading causes of weather-related deaths, so it&#8217;s important to recognize the warning signs early.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms may include headache, nausea, dizziness, weakness, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Doctors say if you go outside, avoid the hottest times of the day, stay hydrated, and wear light-colored, loose clothing.<\/p>\n<p>If you start to feel sick, go somewhere cool and change into dry clothes.<\/p>\n<p>And if you think you or someone you know is suffering a heat-related emergency, call 911 right away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In tonight&#8217;s Health Beat, we&#8217;re exploring how extreme heat can cause a spike in visits to the emergency&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,12429,12090,74472,100402,99840,94230,7340,51195,100403],"class_list":["post-232219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-cdc","tag-emergency-room","tag-extreme-heat","tag-heat-exposure","tag-heat-related-illness","tag-hydration","tag-prevention","tag-symptoms","tag-weather-related-deaths"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232219","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=232219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}