Talk:Heat stroke

Causes

This section is about children and pets being locked into cars, with a great deal of information about why and how children and pets become trapped inside of cars, along with the possible repercussions for the person responsible. But there is nothing in this section about what causes heatstroke. I don't know enough about it to change it, but someone needs to. This section is important, but it should only be a subheading under the "cause" section of the article. Primium mobile (talk) 13:20, 15 April 2014 (UTC)

Forgotten baby syndrome

Split parts of section - Forgotten baby syndrome is becoming a widely publicized problem as of late. I therefore recommend that an article be created about this epidemic, though I am open to suggestions for the title, for which I propose "Forgotten baby syndrome". Thoughts? --Jax 0677 (talk) 03:06, 20 June 2014 (UTC)

I figure it's a fad in reportage rather than a long term trend towards a previously rare way to die. If I'm guessing right, the fad will fade and be replaced as this northern hemisphere summer passes. We might want to put in some statistics and even a trend chart supported by whatever firn, comprehensive data we can cite, but there's no need to build up the section to the point where a separate article would be appropriate. Jim.henderson (talk) 11:17, 21 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment - You can try expanding the section in this article first. If you can find enough sources to do that, then proceed with the splitting (if WP:NOTABLE). While user Jim.henderson's concern is important, I managed to find sources from at least 2009. Mentions are seasonal, but it looks like the term is here to stay, given the popularization of medical issues. Which brings us to: if you're up to it, please find medical sources (WP:MEDRS) about heat stroke in small children. It's no point discussing the term exclusively as a media thing. The article should be about a medical condition. Finnusertop (talk) 09:55, 26 June 2014 (UTC)

Forgotten Baby "Syndrome"

a syndrome refers specifically to medical condition where the underlying genetic cause has been identified, and the collection of symptoms is pathogenetically related.

Let's be smarter than that, parents forgetting their child in the car is not a medical condition.

True, but many medical issues - both actual conditions (such as a "cold" or in fact heat "stroke") as well as social phenomena (eg. we call laughter "contagious") - have medically inaccurate colloquial names. This is particularly relevant if the article will be split and a title is warranted (WP:RECOGNIZABLE). As noted in the discussion above, this section or article is bound to partially discuss the term as a term and its use in the media. A part of that is to point out what is it colloquially called, what meaning it tries to convey, and what is possibly wrong with the term.

The article currently states that it is not an actual or accurate medical term. Finnusertop (talk | guestbook | contribs) 15:22, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

Prognosis contradiction

Prognosis section seems to contradict itself. The first statement says that heat stroke rarely causes long term problems, and then the rest of the section describes how a Chicago study (the same one referenced by the first sentence) showed that one third of people seem to have long term problems. Crazycasta (talk) 00:21, 6 November 2014 (UTC)