{"id":5994,"date":"2022-01-03T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/medicine\/the-8-types-of-dehydration-causes-symptoms-and-prevention\/"},"modified":"2022-01-03T16:00:07","modified_gmt":"2022-01-03T16:00:07","slug":"the-8-types-of-dehydration-causes-symptoms-and-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enorcerna.com\/wiki\/medicine\/the-8-types-of-dehydration-causes-symptoms-and-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"The 8 types of dehydration (causes, symptoms and prevention)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Water is the pillar of life. So it should come as no surprise that, according to the US National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. we need to drink, on average, about 3.7 liters of water a day and women, 2.7 liters<\/strong>, in order to meet the needs of our body. An organism whose 70% of body weight is represented by water.<\/p>\n

This water makes it possible for the body's metabolic reactions to occur properly and for the organs to function properly. And in this sense, a correct intake of water is necessary to maintain the so-called water balance, that is, the state in which the entry and loss of body fluids is compensated.<\/p>\n

It is for this reason that, when we suppress water intake and there are only losses through sweating, urination, defecation and exhalation, the water balance begins to break down and we enter a situation that, if not reversed, is potentially very dangerous, especially for the population at risk. We are talking about dehydration.<\/p>\n

Thus, in today's article and, as always, from the hand of the most prestigious scientific publications, we are going to review the clinical bases of dehydration and investigate the different forms in which it can present<\/strong> according to different parameters such as gravity, the speed of dehydration or the role of electrolytes. Let us begin.<\/p>\n

What is dehydration?<\/h2>\n

Dehydration is a situation in which the water balance in the body is broken<\/strong>Therefore, the body does not have enough water to keep its metabolic and physiological functions stable because the loss of fluids is greater than the intake. That is, it is a condition that develops when the body does not have as much water as it needs.<\/p>\n

Depending on the amount of body fluid that has been lost through sweating, urination, defecation and exhalation and \/ or that has not been replaced by drinking water, this dehydration can be mild, moderate or severe, being the The last of these a clinical emergency that, especially in the case of the population at risk, can be life threatening.<\/p>\n

In general terms, as long as you do not replace the fluids you have lost, you will become dehydrated<\/strong>. And although there are times that this dehydration occurs simply because we are busy and we do not drink enough water, because you do not have access to drinking water, because you are hiking or because you simply do not think about it, there are other causes that can lead to unintentional dehydration.<\/p>\n

Excessive fluid loss and, therefore, dehydration, can be associated with episodes of diarrhea (acute cases can cause a great loss of body fluids), fever (increased body temperature accelerates fluid loss), vomiting , polyuria (a greater need to urinate, so there are greater losses due to urination), excessive perspiration (when we sweat a lot due to a pathological or non-pathological cause) or suffer pathologies that make us lose our appetite and the desire to drink, feeling nauseous or having a sore throat, situations that can cause us not to ingest enough fluids.<\/p>\n

The first sign of dehydration is thirst<\/strong>, a signal from the body, which is asking us to drink, which arises when about 2% of body weight has been lost in fluids. To this thirst and in case of mild to moderate dehydration, other symptoms are added such as dry mouth, yellowish and dark urine, dry and cold skin, muscle cramps, headache, fatigue, dizziness, less frequent urination, confusion and In young children or infants, sunken eyes and cheeks, irritability, sagging of the fontanelle (the soft part at the top of the head), and crying without tears.<\/p>\n

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