How To Stay Safe At Festivals This Summer

People heading to Glastonbury and different festivals are being reminded to stay alert of wellness risks truthful they tin bask events safely.

Glastonbury kicks disconnected nan show play - but ongoing risks astir measles, sexually transmitted diseases and forbidden narcotics remain.

"Most risks tin beryllium avoided by taking elemental steps to thief protect yourself, remembering to support yourself cool and debar excess intoxicant tin thief support you safe during periods of basking weather," said Alison Bell, acting head of nationalist wellness for Somerset Council.

The authority person worked pinch nan UK Health Security Agency to put together 5 tips connected staying safe astatine festivals this year:

Measles is presently circulating crossed nan state and has precocious numbers successful nan South West and London.

Symptoms see a precocious fever, sore reddish watery eyes and a blotchy red-brown rash.

It is peculiarly easy to drawback erstwhile successful adjacent interaction pinch others, specified arsenic successful crowds.

Anyone pinch symptoms is advised to enactment astatine location and interaction their GP aliases NHS 111.

Vaccination remains nan champion measurement to protect yourself and others astir you.

While nan upwind cannot beryllium predicted - everyone is hoping for sun erstwhile they caput to a festival.

However, nan UKHSA opportunity it is important to battalion for each possibilities.

Remember to return wellies, waterproofs and lukewarm layers successful lawsuit nan upwind takes a move aliases gets acold astatine night.

Likewise - retrieve to battalion a refillable h2o bottle, sun chapeau and sun pick and debar excessive intoxicant depletion successful basking weather.

Keep a look-out for signs of heat-related harm successful yourself, your friends, and different group astir nan show and activity thief if you are struggling.

Certain sexually transmitted diseases are presently connected nan emergence and nan UKHSA is reminding everyone to believe safe activity and get regularly tested.

Testing is free and confidential, and you should get tested moreover if you are not showing immoderate symptoms.

"Condoms are nan champion defence, but if you didn't usage 1 nan past clip you had activity pinch a caller aliases casual partner, get tested to observe immoderate imaginable infections early and forestall passing them connected to others," said Dr Alasdair Wood, advisor successful wellness protection astatine UKHSA South West.

Regularly cheque clothing and tegument for ticks and brushwood them disconnected outdoors if they person not bitten.

If a tick has burrowed into your tegument - it must beryllium removed arsenic soon arsenic imaginable utilizing a tick instrumentality aliases tweezers.

To region a tick, grasp nan tick arsenic adjacent to nan tegument arsenic imaginable and propulsion upwards slow and firmly.

The usage of insect repellents specified arsenic DEET tin repel ticks and forestall them from climbing onto clothing aliases attaching to skin.

Ticks tin origin illnesses specified arsenic Lyme illness if not removed properly.

The connection from astir festivals is not to bring aliases usage forbidden substances to nan site.

Drug enforcement laws are arsenic applicable connected nan show tract arsenic anyplace other successful nan state and you consequence being arrested and evicted from nan tract if recovered pinch them.

Attendees are reminded if they do disregard that proposal and go sick aliases acquisition different effects from immoderate substances taken, to activity contiguous thief from nan aesculapian aliases use services connected tract who tin supply thief and support.

Polydrug usage – utilizing much than 1 supplier astatine a clip – intensifies nan effects of nan narcotics and makes them much dangerous.

Mixing intoxicant alongside different narcotics is 1 of nan astir communal forms of polydrug usage and tin earnestly summation nan spot and effect of those substances, expanding nan chances of a perchance fatal chemic reaction.