Summer is not there yet, but its inconvenience yes. The thermometer will shoot this Wednesday, June 11 in a large part of France on Wednesday, June 11, with expected peaks at 35 ° C in the south, as in Montpellier.
These temperatures can test the human body. Some good practices allow hot blows, especially in more vulnerable audiences.
• The golden rule: Hydrate!
This is the most important advice to follow during hot episodes: drink! To cool, our sunt organizations. This perspiration has the advantage of helping to regulate body temperature, but requires being compensated by a regular and sufficient water supply.
The classic daily water supply must be around 1.5 liters of water, but this volume must be accentuated in this situation. In addition, as the public Santé France remembers every summer, you should not “wait until you are thirsty.” A particularly important point in the elderly in which the feeling of thirst decreases.
Hydrate mainly implies water or diet consumption. But it is better to avoid drinking alcohol. “Alcohol leads to dehydration, is a loss of water and heat too.
Therefore, there is a concentration of what remains as a liquid in the body, and alcohol has toxic effects, “said General Practitioner François Baumann in August 2023.
• Keep indoor freshness
If temperatures rise more than 30 ° C outdoors, ideally, it is necessary to maintain as much freshly as possible indoors. This first implies a good thermal insulation of the house, but the tips of circumstances can also help do their best.
Therefore, it is recommended to enjoy the most great hours, early in the morning or at the end of the night and early at night, so that the fresh air enters the accommodation. Then: closed blinds, thrown curtains … but without preventing air from circulating, since ventilation is still important.
“As soon as the outside temperature exceeds that of its accommodation, it also closes the windows (…) from the middle of the morning, the heat can increase very quickly,” explains the Adama, the Agency for Ecological Transition and Energy, which recommends avoiding “choosing an emergency air conditioning.”
• Adapt activities (and schedules)
When it is hot, common sense quickly becomes a compass. Among the most natural tips, there is the avoidance of leaving during the hottest hours of the day, when possible.
“Avoid circular during the hottest hours and take more frequent breaks than usual, in the shadow or in new places,” recommends public health, which also requires outline proscribing outdoor sports activities. Therefore, the ideal is to remain inside between 11 am and 4 pm and to avoid direct exposure to the sun to the sun.
With respect to workers, the decree published new obligations for employers on May 27, 2025, so it requires “adapting the schedules, suspending painful tasks during the hottest hours, better adjustment of rest periods.”
• Pay attention to the most vulnerable
Heat does not affect us in the same way. “The people who suffer most are the two extremes of the ages: the elderly and the young children, but also the people with pathologies,” said last summer in BFMTV Daniel Meyran, the National Physician of the French Red Cross.
Older and younger people are more overwhelmed by heat, without necessarily realizing. The sensation of lower thirst and perception of attenuated heat can cause risks. The summer of 2027 was marked by 3,700 dead attributable to the warm climate, including three quarters in more than 75 years.
Therefore, it is necessary to take into account in a global way, at home and in others, the signs of heat blow or dehydration: unusual fatigue, headache, redness, nausea, cramps … after having put in the shade and having hydrated, it is necessary to call a doctor “if the signs persist beyond an hour or fought.”
Source: BFM TV
