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A serum sodium level. It just takes a few minutes. If you want a field test that will give you this value, I think you're going to have to tote around some very expensive machinery.
Overhydration. Huh?
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A serum sodium level. It just takes a few minutes. If you want a field test that will give you this value, I think you're going to have to tote around some very expensive machinery.
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I'll bet there have been more serious complications from water intoxication in athletes than from dehydration. Dehydration is usually very quick and easy to reverse. That's not necessarily the case with water intoxication. I am certain far more than 3 people have died from water intoxication over the last decade. (For that matter, I'd be willing to say that of deaths from computer mice - there are a LOT of people in the world, and a LOT of deaths each year from all sorts of things.) Perhaps the article dealt with deaths in athletes during competitions?
For unknown reasons, psychogenic polydipsia (drinking of massive amounts of water) is not especially rare among people with schizophrenia. This can, and does, lead to some very serious complications, including seizures and death. I used to see several cases a year when I was in training.
For most people, the risks of becoming significantly overhydrated are pretty slim. It just irks me when people assume that there's no way consuming too much water can hurt you. There is practically nothing that isn't deadly in excess or under the wrong circumstances.
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I wonder if it's a good idea for divers to take an extra bit of salt when they are on dive vacations? I never use a salt shaker any more because I'm trying to avoid excess salt, probably get enough in cooking process, but I wonder if it would be a good idea to use a little salt since I drink so much water?
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Me myself personally if I were me I wouldn't.
Agreed. No need for extra salt. Honestly, sweat is far more water than salt. Plus, with physical exertion, you lose a lot of water (not salt) through your lungs. So, in the vast majority of cases, it's primarily water that you need to replace. That's why everyone who exercises with only a water bottle in their hands isn't keeling over from overhydration.
If you do not take medications that affect the kidney's concentrating or diluting ability, the vast majority of people will be just fine with drinking water only even with relatively strenuous exercise.
Bottom line, just keep doing what your mom told you to do, and your kidneys will take care of the rest.....in 99.9999% of cases (or thereabouts.
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If you do not take medications that affect the kidney's concentrating or diluting ability, the vast majority of people will be just fine with drinking water only even with relatively strenuous exercise.
Bottom line, just keep doing what your mom told you to do, and your kidneys will take care of the rest.....in 99.9999% of cases (or thereabouts.
)Jim
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pharmguy:
Dark red colored urine is also a sign of porphyria. NOBODY wants that.
Interestingly enough porphyria also presents with hypersensitivity to the sun and the old "cure" for it was for a doctor to give you blood to drink. Sound like anything familiar to you? Sorry to get off topic!-Jim
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GoBlue!:Agreed. No need for extra salt. Honestly, sweat is far more water than salt. Plus, with physical exertion, you lose a lot of water (not salt) through your lungs. So, in the vast majority of cases, it's primarily water that you need to replace. That's why everyone who exercises with only a water bottle in their hands isn't keeling over from overhydration.
If you do not take medications that affect the kidney's concentrating or diluting ability, the vast majority of people will be just fine with drinking water only even with relatively strenuous exercise.
Bottom line, just keep doing what your mom told you to do, and your kidneys will take care of the rest.....in 99.9999% of cases (or thereabouts.
Jim
OK, no extra salt. When I was in basic training in the Marines, in P.I., we were given salt tablets, a few of them, to take with water before going on the sun drenched Drill Fields and for Physical Training. That advice has changed?
Most things that you're going to do on a dive vacation are not going to equal the environmental conditions & physical exertion of basic training of the Marines.
Basically, your body is smart. If you're thirsty, drink. If you're feeling a little woozy & lightheaded, you may want to drink something with a little solute in it as well (e.g., sports drinks, etc.). Listen to your body.
Jim
Basically, your body is smart. If you're thirsty, drink. If you're feeling a little woozy & lightheaded, you may want to drink something with a little solute in it as well (e.g., sports drinks, etc.). Listen to your body.
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GoBlue!:Most things that you're going to do on a dive vacation are not going to equal the environmental conditions & physical exertion of basic training of the Marines.
Basically, your body is smart. If you're thirsty, drink. If you're feeling a little woozy & lightheaded, you may want to drink something with a little solute in it as well (e.g., sports drinks, etc.). Listen to your body.
Jim
Thanks Go Blue. I keep seeing this word, solute, not sure what that is, or means? I'm guessing that it means salt and other stuff mixed in a sports drink?
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