Summer is quickly approaching, and bringing that familiar heat with it.

Guthrie County Health Services Director Jotham Arber says that as temperatures continue to rise, the risk of heat related illnesses starts to climb as well. He adds that once the temperature outside reaches 93 degrees, it starts becoming easier to suffer a heat illness, and tells Raccoon Valley Radio which one people might suffer first.

“You get heat exhausted as your body gets too hot for it to handle. You start to have the headache, nausea, dizziness, those kind of things. Heavy sweating. You’re getting into a point where your body is going to start responding to that excessive sweating, and going to cause you to have some symptoms there.”

Arber explains that after heat exhaustion comes heat stroke, which has symptoms of confusion and loss of consciousness, and not sweating when you should. He advises that once someone has reached this stage of heat illness, medical services need to be called.