What are the symptoms of dehydration? What you need to know about diarrhea!

Diarrhea is a symptom of dehydration caused by severe diarrhea. Diarrhea will cause the body's cells to decline rapidly, easily lead to dizziness, affect the body's normal metabolism, and easily cause symptoms such as chest pain and abdominal pain. If the dehydration is severe, weak pulse and fainting will occur. It should be treated in time, and the body should be replenished with nutrition and water in time, and pay attention to the condition.

According to the changes in blood sodium or osmotic pressure associated with human dehydration, human dehydration is divided into hypotonic dehydration, i.e., a decrease in extracellular fluid and low blood sodium; hypertonic dehydration, i.e., a decrease in extracellular fluid and high blood sodium; and isotonic dehydration, i.e., a decrease in extracellular fluid and normal blood sodium.

So what are the symptoms if our body becomes dehydrated? Dehydration is a symptom of metabolic disorder caused by the body consuming a large amount of water due to disease, which cannot be replenished immediately. In severe cases, it can cause collapse and even life-threatening. Patients with dehydration usually feel tired, dizzy when standing up, or even faint, and have symptoms such as unclear consciousness. Some patients with dehydration may experience symptoms of insufficient blood supply to the organ arteries, such as chest pain and abdominal pain. Common physical signs include poor skin elasticity, dry skin and mucous membranes, rapid and weak pulse, superficial venous collapse, cold limbs, decreased urine volume, etc.

What is worth noting here is that many children will suffer from diarrhea, which is also a cause of dehydration in the human body. However, the diarrhea is not very severe and manifests as mild dehydration. It can be seen that the child’s tongue and lips are relatively dry, the urine volume is slightly reduced, and the whole person appears very weak. However, if it can be corrected in time, it will not cause much harm to the human body.

If the child is moderately dehydrated, he or she will be listless, have dry skin with poor elasticity, and if you pinch the skin on the abdomen with your fingers and then release your hands, the skin on the abdomen will not flatten out immediately. The child has dry lips and tongue, little saliva, and sunken eye sockets. After closing his eyes, the eyeballs can still be seen. This is medically called closed eyes with open eyes. Generally, when a child reaches moderate dehydration, doctors and parents should pay close attention to it. When oral medication cannot solve the problem, fluids should be given.

Severe dehydration: Severe dehydration is caused by the loss of a large amount of body fluids, more than 10-15%, which can damage other organs of the body, the kidneys, and the central nervous system. In severe cases, it may even cause shock.

As parents pay more and more attention to their children's physical development, severe diarrhea leading to severe dehydration is relatively rare. Generally, if a child is found to have any uncomfortable symptoms, they will go to the hospital for treatment in time. However, we should also remind the few friends who are busy with work and neglect their children's physical condition to pay more attention to their children's health.