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A 10-year-old girl is brought to the emergency department manifesting the following physical symptoms: sweating, nausea, headache, abdominal cramps, cool moist skin, and an elevated temperature.
 
  The child's mother reports that since this was the first warm day of summer, they spent most of the day at the beach. This patient is experiencing ___________. Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
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6 years ago
heat exhaustion
This child is experiencing a heat-related illness known as heat exhaustion. Treatment
includes moving the child to a cool environment and applying cool moist cloths to the
skin, removing clothing or changing her to dry clothing, elevating her legs, and offering
oral rehydration fluids if no altered mental status or vomiting is evident.
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