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Basic Anatomy & Physiology I (BIO 117)
Camden County College
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Case Study 5 : Integumentary System Yissel Diaz Chamberlain University BIOS251-11911: Anatomy and Physiology 1 Dr. Sandra Hampton February 5, 2024
Case Study 5 2 Hyperthermia is when your body is at an unusual high body temperature. The prefix word hyper means above, and the suffix thermia means the generation of heat. Hyperthermia can be very dangerous and even life threatening. This can happen when the person has failure of the heat regulating mechanisms of the body that help with the heat that comes from the environment. Someone who has hyperthermia can developed different type like fatigue, syncope, cramps, exhaustion, and stroke. These are the most common types that are seen. Heat stroke is the most life threatening because the body is overwhelmed by the heat and can’t control it. This usually happens when someone’s body temperature is over 104 degrees Fahrenheit, this is when you should be cornered as it can become life threatening. Homeostasis is the body’s ways of self-regulating itself by maintaining internal stability while trying to adjust from the external changes like temperatures. When the body is going through hyperthermia, the body will see that it’s not stable as the body is overheating. When the body’s temperature is dangerously high that its fatal the body is no longer stable nor in homeostasis. The body will start to try to return to its stables temperatures and get into homeostasis. When the body starts to sweat, cool off, and the blood vessels dilate to release excess heat that’s the body trying to restore homeostasis. When applying cool pads and spraying water on the skin to lower body temperatures when you have hyperthermia as it helps evaporate the heat from your body quicker and also causes you to shiver. When the coldness for the cold pads or the water spraying on your skin will cause the heat to evaporate into the air causing the skin to cool down. As evaporation is happening through water molecules which would be our sweat droplets and they absorbs the heat from the top of our skins and will evaporate and makes the surface of our skin cool down quickly. Also, when your skin feels the coldness your blood vessels will constricts and will stop them from dilating with
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Case study 5 - notes
Course: Basic Anatomy & Physiology I (BIO 117)
University: Camden County College
