Most healthy children and adolescents can safely participate in outdoor sports and other physical activities in a wide range of challenging warm to hot weather,
The presence of one or more of the following factors, however, increases the risk of exertional heat illness:
As heat and humidity increase, and as additional exertional heat-illness risks are present, the need to take steps to prevent heat illness [6] becomes more urgent. Likewise, as the number of risk factors for exertional heat illness increases, the maximum environmental heat and humidity level for safe exercise, sports participation, or other physical activities will decrease.
Source: Bergeron MF, Rice SG, DiLaura Devore C & Council on American Academy of Pediatrics' Sports Medicine and Fitness and Council on School Health. Policy Statement - Climactic Heat Stress and Exercising Children and Adolescents. Pediatrics 2011; 128(3) (published online August 8, 2011).
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