As the world comes off the hottest summer ever recorded, researchers are feverishly studying the devastating effects of heat on the body.
Globally, men and women face different health challenges in high temperatures, partly because of societal structures — who is working where, inside or out? — and partly because of basic physical differences, with women carrying children.that high heat increases a woman’s chance of bearing a child with birth defects.
Last year, in a village just outside Jacobabad, a woman named Fazeela Mumtaz Bhatti, 46, passed out while preparing breakfast for her husband and their 11 children. In Sindh province, where Jacobabad lies, nurses and others said that there has been a rise in miscarriages, low-birth-weight babies, and a decreased production of breast milk. They attribute it all to the stress caused by the floods, as well as this summer’s extreme temperatures.
“Record heat waves across the country could threaten access to effective pregnancy tests, condoms, and emergency contraception pills,”. “Pregnancy tests generally should be stored at a temperature between 36 and 86 degrees Fahrenheit. Emergency contraception pills should be kept between 68 and 77 degrees, per thethough they can be transported in temperatures ranging between 59 and 86 degrees.”
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