Dehydration is something you do not want to go through because your body feels sick and weak. It is caused when your body is not getting enough water or an illness depletes the water stored in the body. Winter time is when people get really dehydrated usually because it is the cold and flu season and so many illnesses are spread from one person to another. Two things that cause dehydration easily are vomiting and diarrhea.
Either of these things can accompany a case of the flu or various stomach bugs. When people are ill, they do not always feel up to eating or drinking anything especially if they know it is going to make them throw up or go to the bathroom constantly. Therefore they might not take in as much water as they need to keep their body hydrated. When you become dehydrated your skin will feel hot and dry to the touch. The lips can become parched and red too.
Older and younger people become dehydrated easiest of all in most circumstances. Their bodies have a hard time dealing with dehydration and it can makes them even sicker. There are many other ways to get dehydrated like burns, diabetes, loss of blood, hypothermia, malnutrition, and stress can even do it. Dehydration can cause you to have headaches, pains in the muscles, it can make you thirsty, decreased urination, lightheaded, and more. Dehydration can hospitalize you if it gets too bad. Sometimes they will have to give you fluids intravenously if you can not keep liquids down.
This will put fluids back into your body so you will not get worse. How much fluids they will have to put in your depends on how badly dehydrated you were and what type of illness you might have as well. Dehydration can usually be resolved fairly easily unless there are other complicating factors, for example: People who have chemotherapy can become easily dehydrated because they can vomit a lot from the medical treatment or newborns with diarrhea because their little systems might not be working properly yet. You can also get dehydrated by drinking too much alcohol or being in the heat outside too long without taking in enough water to replace what your body uses and loses.
Anytime it is hot outside and you are out in it, make sure you drink plenty of water because exerting yourself will use up your water reserves inside the body and sweating to keep the body cooler uses it up too. When you drink alcohol, make sure you drink a little water between your alcoholic beverages. This will keep you from becoming dehydrated for one and prevent you from getting too drunk for another.
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