Overheating in Northern Germany

Being able to watch Nik play ball again was very exciting. It was a scorching hot day, pretty rare for this region, and all the guys were all uniformed up. Poor Nik as the catcher has to wear the most gear. He would spend his time between innings putting a cold wet towel on his head or dunking it into a bucket of water. Nik played really well, getting multiple hits and performing some exceptional defensive plays (including throwing multiple base stealers out). They won both games against the team from Bonn. I spent the day in the shade of course drinking water and trying to stay cool. At the end of the day Nik was full of energy insisting on making me dinner and having a good time. The heat hit him like a ton of bricks, either his adrenalin wore off from the wins or his body just couldn't handle the heat any longer. He started feeling really sick, dizzy and he wasn't sweating anymore. One minute he was great the next he was terrible. Me being a pervious EMT, I thought I could recognize something like this a lot sooner, but Nik was having a clear case of heat exhaustion and if we didn't do something quick he could have heat stroke (the no sweating was a bad sign). I immediately put cold packs on his head and neck and he continued to drink cold water, but he wasn't cooling down. He didn't want to move but I convinced him to get in the shower. He sat in a cold shower with all his clothes on and soon he slowly started to feel better. We got him some electrolytes and put that in his water and he sat outside with his wet clothes just letting his body recover. He started feeling better and eventually ate dinner. After dinner he was pretty much back up to par. It was a scary end to his exceptional day. I was so glad I was here to take care of him, because I no a little about what to do, but of course I was scared and worried about him. We spent the rest of the night taking it easy, because we knew our great European adventure was starting tomorrow.