{"id":5808,"date":"2017-01-05T13:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2017-01-05T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T02:23:11","slug":"kids-at-higher-risk-of-heat-related-illness-than-adults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/kids-at-higher-risk-of-heat-related-illness-than-adults\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids at higher risk of heat-related illness than adults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With summer here and plenty of hot days to come, it\u2019s especially important to never leave your kids in the car. On a warm day, the temperature inside a parked car can be 20C to 30C hotter than outside. Leaving your child in the car puts them at high risk of a heat-related illness.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5809\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/AJA_5630_2000-400x267.jpg\" alt=\"aja_5630_2000\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/AJA_5630_2000-400x267.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/AJA_5630_2000-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/AJA_5630_2000-800x534.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/files\/2017\/01\/AJA_5630_2000.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Victorian Government recently launched its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.education.vic.gov.au\/school\/parents\/health\/Pages\/kidsincars.aspx\"><strong>Never Leave Kids in Cars<\/strong><\/a> heat awareness campaign, which prompts parents to take their child with them whenever they get out of the car, just as they would take their everyday valuables.<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"mv-Element-H2\">The risk of heatstroke and\u00a0dehydration is very real:<\/h4>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>A child\u2019s body temperature rises three to five times faster than an adults<\/li>\n<li>Even on a mild day, the temperature inside a parked car can be 20 to 30 degrees hotter than the temperature outside<\/li>\n<li>When it\u2019s 30 degrees outside, a child could be suffering in up to 60-degree heat<\/li>\n<li>Leaving the windows down has little effect on the\u00a0inside temperature of the car<\/li>\n<li>Large cars heat up as\u00a0quickly as\u00a0smaller cars<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0For more information on the <strong>Never Leave Kids in Cars<\/strong> campaign, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidsafevic.com.au\">kidsafevic.com.au<\/a>.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaving your child in the car puts them at high risk of a heat-related illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8971,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5813,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}