RedLightBlueLight
Greenlighter
- Joined
- Aug 19, 2014
- Messages
- 45
Severe dehydration can kill you and will, if untreated. Simply drinking water might not cut it in an emergency situation. Know the symptoms, drink water and severe dehydration can be avoided easily.
It's important to be able to recognise and identify the symptoms BUT ALSO very important to understand dehydration so you can distinguish the symptoms apart from others so as not to confuse them with anything else hence, one may disregard them and dehydration, severe dehydration could now be posing a risk, because they (I personally have on more than a few occasions) can be easily confused with that end of the night "I feel shit but I've been partying all night on speed and drinking. Nothing out of the ordinary. I'll be fine."
This isn't complicated, it's common sense and the average healthy person drinks water every day. Whenever we drink or use drugs, those widely known four words 'Keep your fluids up' are a hell of a lot more important than you may have previously thought.
"Symptoms of dehydration include thirst, headache, general discomfort, loss of appetite, dry skin, decreased urine volume, confusion, unexplained tiredness, and irritability. More prolonged or severe dehydration leads to abnormally dark urine, rapid breathing, constipation, decreased blood pressure (hypertension), dizziness or fainting when standing up due to orthostatic hypotension (you feel completely exhausted after standing up), listlessness, insomnia, and loss of skin elasticity."
I've underlined a few important warning signs, the ones in bold and the part I included in italics, are the danger signs and your body telling you (all of the symptoms above) that it's time for a glass of water, repeated five or six times over the next 20-30 minutes, even tiny sips are fine as long it's consistent. The decrease in blood pressure is because your body is so dehydrated that your blood has become viscous which is bad, life threatening. IV infusion is sometimes needed in an emergency. Call an ambulance if you're covered and don't care admitting to the hospital staff that you partied too hard and forgot about water. They don't care, their job is to make sure you don't die. Don't have cover? A taxi might be cheaper, but the cost of a ride to the hospital accompanied by medically trained professionals is low priority when you life is in danger.
Further information and the above quoted text can be found here --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration
Call a locum if hospital isn't where you want to be, however in hospital they will be able to monitor you until you're well enough to return home. You're surrounded by doctors and nurses. But... avoidance is better than risking death. Keep your fluids up!
It's important to be able to recognise and identify the symptoms BUT ALSO very important to understand dehydration so you can distinguish the symptoms apart from others so as not to confuse them with anything else hence, one may disregard them and dehydration, severe dehydration could now be posing a risk, because they (I personally have on more than a few occasions) can be easily confused with that end of the night "I feel shit but I've been partying all night on speed and drinking. Nothing out of the ordinary. I'll be fine."
This isn't complicated, it's common sense and the average healthy person drinks water every day. Whenever we drink or use drugs, those widely known four words 'Keep your fluids up' are a hell of a lot more important than you may have previously thought.
"Symptoms of dehydration include thirst, headache, general discomfort, loss of appetite, dry skin, decreased urine volume, confusion, unexplained tiredness, and irritability. More prolonged or severe dehydration leads to abnormally dark urine, rapid breathing, constipation, decreased blood pressure (hypertension), dizziness or fainting when standing up due to orthostatic hypotension (you feel completely exhausted after standing up), listlessness, insomnia, and loss of skin elasticity."
I've underlined a few important warning signs, the ones in bold and the part I included in italics, are the danger signs and your body telling you (all of the symptoms above) that it's time for a glass of water, repeated five or six times over the next 20-30 minutes, even tiny sips are fine as long it's consistent. The decrease in blood pressure is because your body is so dehydrated that your blood has become viscous which is bad, life threatening. IV infusion is sometimes needed in an emergency. Call an ambulance if you're covered and don't care admitting to the hospital staff that you partied too hard and forgot about water. They don't care, their job is to make sure you don't die. Don't have cover? A taxi might be cheaper, but the cost of a ride to the hospital accompanied by medically trained professionals is low priority when you life is in danger.
Further information and the above quoted text can be found here --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dehydration
Call a locum if hospital isn't where you want to be, however in hospital they will be able to monitor you until you're well enough to return home. You're surrounded by doctors and nurses. But... avoidance is better than risking death. Keep your fluids up!
Last edited:
Thank YOU for the kind words.
