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Soaring Temperatures Causes Death to Middle, High School Footballers
August 06, 2007 at 4:09 PM
General Health News
It’s a list of boys who died playing or practicing football, kids whose body temperatures rose so high and so fast under the summer sun that their brains couldn’t keep up, couldn’t regulate their cores, and the boys died.
“When something is preventable ...,” Mueller said, shaking his head. “Those kids could be alive today.”
Five young athletes, from 11 to 17 years old, died of heat stroke in 2006. The trend was declining. The last time there were more than five was 1972, when there were seven. In five of the past 16 years there were none. But, Mueller said, there have been 31 since 1995, and all of them could have been avoided.
Seven other players died last year of "heart-related" deaths that might or night not have been related to heat or exertion. "And we don't know the number of kids who had heat exhaustion," said Mueller, in UNC's College of Arts & Sciences.
With summer practice about to swing into high gear, Mueller said it’s time to remember these kids, and to keep in mind how heat-related deaths can be prevented.
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