Teen Athletes OK to Practice and Play Despite Scorching Heat
by Rudolph Yap in Fitness on Aug 12, 2011
The biggest pediatricians group in the country expressed that as long as precautions are in use, playing sports in a steamy and hot weather is considered safe for teen athletes and healthy children.
The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued new guidelines and has given it to schools, just as sports in school ramp up in the hot temperatures of August. The guidelines, which were released today, were decided following a week after there were two high school football players in Georgia had died. According to an account, the two students died after having practices under a 90-plus degree temperature of hot weather. However, authorities said that they are still under investigations if weather has something to do with their deaths.
Additionally, the new guidelines are said to substitute the more restraining policy saying that kids are more susceptible to stress caused by heat rather than adults. Recent researches have presented that the above statement isn’t true at all. Under the new guidelines, healthy teen athletes can play or practice in high humidity and heat, when accompanied with sufficient training, time-outs, emergency treatment readily available on the sides, and water intakes.
The co-author of the new guidelines, Dr. Cynthia Devore explained that if parents, athletes and staffs are educated about the risks connected to illnesses caused by heat, then it is more possible that they would think over again before permitting an aggressive culture go beyond sensibilities that are sound.
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