A Heat Wave is on its Way, Here's How to Stay Cool

Whether you're cooling off taking a dip in the pool or playing an intense game of tennis, you'll need to be prepared for next week's heat wave. Amara Danchin, a college freshman, is back in Baltimore for the summer and three to four times a week she and her father find time to play tennis even in the sweltering heat.

"It was definitely hard even coming today and it's not even as hot as it's gonna be next week," Danchin said. If you're going to be active outside next week it's important to take things slow and pay attention to the signs.

"Timing and listening to your body and if something isn't feeling right, if you're feeling lightheaded, take a break take water you can always stop and you can start again," Danchin said.

In preparation for the blistering heat, every year, Matt Sedgley, sports medicine physician at Medstar, helps teach an emergency and sports physician training. Providing teaching opportunities to physical therapists, and athletic trainers working with high school and college athletes.

"Athletes sometimes are very prone to getting injured with heat because they make even more when they are running. So if you're outside in the heat and you are running as an athlete, playing basketball or catching a football, you're making even more heat in addition to the sun that's already on you, so you have to be careful because that could cause heat injury," Sedgley said.

Sedgley says this is the time of year when the heat brings out symptoms like nausea, headache, dizziness and dehydration.

"People can actually get heat exhaustion where they almost feel like they're going to collapse or heat stroke, which can actually be deadly," Sedgley said.