{"id":475938,"date":"2025-07-22T20:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/woman-suffers-stroke-and-enters-coma-after-baking-in-the-sun-in-an-attempt-to-cure-illnesses\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:43:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T00:43:16","slug":"woman-suffers-stroke-and-enters-coma-after-baking-in-the-sun-in-an-attempt-to-cure-illnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/woman-suffers-stroke-and-enters-coma-after-baking-in-the-sun-in-an-attempt-to-cure-illnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman suffers stroke and enters coma after ‘baking’ in the sun in an attempt to “cure illnesses”"},"content":{"rendered":"A woman from China’s Zhejiang province suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma<\/strong> after spending two hours sunbathing in intense heat in an attempt to “cure illnesses”.\n\nThe tragedy occurred when the woman, surnamed Wang, decided to try a traditional Chinese medicine remedy that apparently indicates that “sunbathing on the back can warm the ‘yang’ energy, dispel dampness, and cure diseases<\/strong>“, according to South China Morning Post<\/a>.\n\n\n

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The Opposite Effect<\/h3>\n\n\nWang lay face down outside her house for two hours at noon, and when she returned inside the house she collapsed and lost consciousness<\/strong>. She was taken to a hospital, where doctors found that she had suffered an aneurysmal cerebral hemorrhage and a life-threatening cerebral hernia.\n\nThe woman underwent emergency surgery, but despite the efforts of the specialists, she fell into a coma. According to Ye Xiangming, director of the Rehabilitation Department of Zhejiang Provincial People’s Hospital, Wang had suffered severe brain damage<\/strong>. In addition, he warned that a prolonged state of bed rest could cause even more health complications.\n\nAs part of the recovery therapy, the patient had to go through a complex rehabilitation process and undergo a series of surgeries. Over time, Wang managed to regain the ability to sit, stand, speak, and feed herself<\/strong>.\n\n“The saying ‘sunbathing cures all diseases’ has no scientific basis,” Ye emphasized. “Prolonged exposure to the sun at high temperatures is extremely dangerous<\/strong> for the elderly and those with pre-existing conditions such as high blood pressure or cerebrovascular disease, which can lead to serious problems such as heatstroke or stroke,” the doctor explained. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A woman from China’s Zhejiang province suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and fell into a coma after spending two hours sunbathing in intense heat in an attempt to “cure illnesses”. The tragedy occurred when the woman, surnamed Wang, decided to try a traditional Chinese medicine remedy that apparently indicates that “sunbathing on the back can warm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":475939,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-1ZOq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-22-203838.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Redacci\u00f3n De \u00daltimo Minuto","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-logo-de-ultimo-minuto-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/07\/Captura-de-pantalla-2025-07-22-203838.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}