What does dehydration mean

summary

Dehydration is mainly due to metabolic disorders, resulting in excessive consumption of water, generally caused by disease, serious and even life-threatening. Let's see what dehydration means.

What does dehydration mean

First of all: dehydration refers to the human body due to pathological changes, consume a lot of water, and can not immediately supplement, resulting in a metabolic disorder symptoms, serious will cause collapse, and even life-threatening, need to rely on fluid infusion to supplement body fluid, keep the body water sufficient, avoid new metabolism bear greater pressure.

Secondly: a group of clinical symptoms caused by the decrease of extracellular fluid. According to the changes of blood sodium or osmotic pressure, dehydration can be divided into hypotonic dehydration, that is, the decrease of extracellular fluid combined with hyponatremia.

Finally: hypertonic dehydration is the decrease of extracellular fluid and hypernatremia; isotonic dehydration is the decrease of extracellular fluid and normal blood sodium.

matters needing attention

In order to avoid dehydration in our body, it is absolutely necessary to get enough water, especially in summer. When dehydration is obvious, it is necessary to supplement water and electrolyte in time.