Alternative Health: DEHYDRATION

Dehydration is the term used to indicate the condition of lack of body fluids. The situation was caused by excessive loss of body fluids. Dehydration is also called the anhidrasi, deaquasi, or hipohidrasi.

Lack of body fluids can occur in patients with diarrhea and vomiting, high fever, and others. Discharge was usually accompanied by loss of salt and mineral in the body.

How much body fluid is reduced to be called dehydration? Human body weight consists of approximately 60 percent fluid. Every day, approximately 1.7 liters of fluid expelled through the urine and about 100 milliliters issued through the intestines. Other expenditure total of one liter of fluid occurs through perspiration and respiration.

Loss of fluids that will be replaced by fluid derived from the consumption of food and drink as much as three liters a day. In very hot weather, people would need to drink more fluids to compensate for too much more out of the body through evaporation. If the liquid that comes out even more than the entry, then dehydrated ensued.

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Source: Indonesian Health Info 2007