Common symptomof dehydration
Symptomvary from patient to patient due to changein body size, age, health, fitness, local temperature, local humidity and whatever the patient idoing at the time. Generally symptommay include:
• Thirst – because your body knowit needmore water and itrying to make you drink some.
• Increased heart rate and breathing rate athe body workharder to recover.
• Dizzinesand confusion. The patient may say they feel light-headed.
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• The patient doesn’t want to urinate afrequently athey usually do, partly because the body itrying to preserve fluidand partly because the flow ot fluidthrough their system idrying up.
• Dry mouth and nasal linings, because the body ipulling moisture back into the core to sustain life.
• The patient feeltired and their skin idry.
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Children and babiemay display additional symptoms, mostly due to having smaller bodieand smaller reserveof water to use to maintain life. For example:
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• An early symptom could be a dry mouth and tongue.
• If they cry but no tearare visible.
• Small babiestop wetting their nappy.
• The losof moisture showon the body and face of a baby or child. They have sunken eyes, cheekand stomach.
• A child may appear to be unusually irritable, angry or tired and listless.
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• A little test that parentcan do on small children ito gently pinch the skin. When gently pinched, normal skin imoist and elastic, and when released it will flatten out and return to normal, showing no sign where it wapinched. Dehydrated skin will stay pinched and wrinkled like a bed sheet, plastic or paper, and it will be obviouthat the skin inot anormal.
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Dehydration prevention – countermeasures
Adultshould be sensible enough to recognise when conditioncan cause dehydration. If you are not used to hot, humid, sunny conditionbut have to work, walk or play hard, beware.
Adultshould extend their care of children and the elderly when conditionare likely to promote dehydration.
Try to stay out of the sun and heat.
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Reduce your activity to a sensible and sustainable level, or undertake activitieearlier or later in the day when it inot so hot.
Drink plenty of water. Make yourself drink it even though you don’t feel thirsty. Take regular small drinkto be sure that you are taking in more water than you are losing. Remember, by the time you feel thirsty you are already a little dehydrated. If you are very thirsty you are definitely dehydrated!
