Question

What is dehydration? What are some conditions that may lead to dehydration? What are the signs and symptoms that an adult patient would exhibit?

Answer 1

• When an individual lost large amount of water from their body and the present amount of water level is not adequate to meet the body metabolism and internal mechanism , this state of fluid inadequacy is termed as dehydration.
• There are several condition that a person may develop these condition, in general if a person didn't consume enough amount of water after having intense activity he/she will develop these condition, other than that some abnormal condition like vomiting, diarrhea and fever may tends to develop these condition. Even in sever organ failure like heart and kidney dysfunction along with hormone imbalance the individual may develop these condition.
• If a adult person had developed these condition
  -he may feel very tired,
  -he can't feel the energy to perform usual activity any,more,
  -his breathing and heart rate would be very fast,
  -his skin would become very dry
  - at last he feel dizziness and some time faint.