how to prevent heat illnesses in football players
To help prevent heat-related illnesses, keep players cool and hydrated. Appropriate Fluids. Include water or a correctly proportioned sports drink. Water is an appropriate hydrating solution when practices are not intense and do not exceed 60-90 minutes. As the illness progresses into heat stroke, a player may have a high body temperature, have red, hot, dry, or moist skin, vomit, lose consciousness, have shallow breathing and/or a weak pulse. 2  A player experiencing respiratory or cardiac arrest needs to receive rescue breathing or CPR.