Mouth
Dehydration
• Dehydration is the symptom of decreased body fluid volume.
• Dehydration is both the loss of water and the loss of sodium (salt).
• Dehydration can result from:
· Loss of sodium from diarrhea, fever, sweating.
· water losses from decreased water intake, insensible water evaporating from the skin and urinating.
• Dehydration treatment requires replacement of both water and sodium.
· the kidney is unable to hold onto free water without the addition of dietary sodium (salt).
Read more – December 14, 2008
