Showing posts with label dehydration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dehydration. Show all posts

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Hypotonic Dehydration

Hypotonic dehydration
Hypotonic Dehydration or Dehydration is an always latent subject, and much more in summer. Usually it happens that before the lack of thirst sensation - in special, present in the children, old and people with some disease it is expected last moment to drink water, which can be dangerous.

Although there is to always take water, the necessity is still more imperative before high temperatures and when physical activity is realized intense, and the most vulnerable groups before a possible dehydration are the pregnant and nursing children, people majors, women, and the sportsmen.

In normal environmental conditions, a person can lose near 2,300 ml of liquids through the urine (1,500 ml), sweat (150 ml), the skin and the lungs (350 ml each). However, when the climate is warmer, the loss through the sweating can multiply until by ten and to reach the 1,400 ml, that's why is necessary to drink water and liquids still more.