Dubai Health Authority issues a guide to enjoy a healthy and safe summer

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, July 12, 2023: The Dubai Health Authority today issued a guide that includes a package of general advice, information and guidance to maintain the health and safety of community members and prevent them from various diseases and health problems during the summer season associated with the holiday season, and high temperatures that pose a risk to public health if not handled properly.

The guideline will be found on the DHA website. It provides several health guidelines, procedures for handling and preventing travel-related health problems, high temperatures, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, and nutrition, the importance of drinking fluids in the summer, healthy sleep, exercise, child domestic accidents, summer-related diseases, summer depression and seasonal emotional disorders, and other.

Dr Hend AL Awadhi, Head of the Health Promotion and Education section of the Public Health Department at DHA, stated the importance of this guide, which comes within the efforts made by the Authority and its continuous keenness to commit to raising awareness and strengthening the preventive aspect of community members with various potential health problems during the summer, and the importance of adopting safety measures.

Dr AL Awadhi said that the guide focuses primarily on health problems associated with high temperatures and how to prevent them, such as heat exhaustion, heat strokes, burns, skin cancers, and other damage caused by ultraviolet radiation to the body.

The guide also touched on mental health, summer depression, seasonal affective disorders and their symptoms, associated climatic factors, and how to deal with them to prevent and avoid their complications.

It also included much travel-related advice and associated health risks related to transmission, especially in risky destinations, emphasizing the importance of visiting the travellers’ clinic before travelling and taking the necessary vaccinations for the travel destination.

The guide focused on the importance of drinking enough water during the summer to prevent various diseases such as migraines, nosebleeds, depression, high blood pressure, asthma, dry cough, dry skin, and acne, furthermore, it focuses on the importance of sleep and healthy food to maintain the general health of the individual, the role of sports and physical activity in preventing the risk of various diseases such as cardiovascular diseases.

The guide provides tips and prevention measures for people with chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and the respiratory system, and the importance of their regular visits to their doctors to maintain their health.

The guide also devoted an entire chapter on the health and safety of children during the summer vacation and the importance of encouraging them to practice various physical activities to maintain a healthy lifestyle and provided many preventive guidelines related to domestic accidents such as poisoning with medicines, pesticides and detergents, door closure accidents, sharp tools, gas accidents, falls, foreign object suffocation and drowning incidents.