Beware of Dehydration Danger!

Posted by thomenda7xx on Monday, December 12, 2011


How many liters of water we drink every day? A liter? Two liters? Or even we rarely drink, either because of preoccupation with doing something so forgotten or maybe because I was lazy when I have frequent urination?

For those who rarely drink, especially water, should be aware of dehydration because you might even faint. Fatal consequences due to dehydration is death!


Ika Fitriyana, students of SMAN 81 Jakarta, have experienced things that reassure baseball. He fainted. Why was he unconscious? Besides being lazy drink as much as two liters a day, Ika also like forgetting to drink. Moreover, if the schedule of activities really solid again.


"I never drink baseball for hours. Well, for the closing ceremony Student Orientation Period  time I was in junior high, passed out because of lack of drinking! "Ika story.


While Chelsea Vanessa, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart high school students Jakarta, only occasionally drink water. To replace the fluid needs, he prefers to eat fruit or vegetables are cooked like a soup. Chelsea was never unconscious. But, he claimed to have dizzy from lack of drink. "Body feels fit baseball," he said.
Well, do not get experience until Ika fainting or dizziness Chelsea because of lack of drinking that we experience. So, from now on, start drinking at least two liters a day let baseball dehydration.


Need liquid
What is dehydration? Dehydrated condition in our body. The liquid is basically one of the substances essential to the health of our bodies. In essence, the human body always need liquid. The human body can only survive for a week without any liquids.


Approximately 55 percent-75 percent of our body fluids. Fluid balance becomes negative or dehydration occurs when fluid in our body by two to six per cent. Dehydration due to decreased fluid intake, increased expenditure or transfer of fluids from the body fluids.


It can be caused by many things, among others sweat too much for exercise, sleep and even sometimes we sweat. Then again sweating a lot, of course, we should drink to replace fluids lost let baseball dehydration.
Each person's fluid needs vary, depending on living conditions and activities of each. In Europe, people are encouraged to drink 1.5 liters a day, three liters a day in Canada, in Australia 2.6 liters, and in Mexico two liters. As for us who live in Indonesia, needs two liters a day.


However, that becomes a problem, especially for girls, if we drink a lot of intensity can result in urination becomes more frequent. And, to the toilet to pee it sometimes becomes the activity of the "torture", especially if less clean toilets in schools.


Because baseball going to the toilet frequently, many of you know a girl who chose to hold urination. The way to make it less frequently to the toilet is to reduce drinking. Not a few girls who prefer not to drink instead of having to go back and forth to the toilet a good baseball.


In fact, withholding urination is bad for health. Likewise if we rarely drink. There are lots of things can happen if we are dehydrated.


"I rarely drink two liters per day, because males that should bring a drink to much. But, I usually drink the others, like green tea gantiin for white water, "said Ika.
"If I held my pee sometimes still do well, for example because there is still work or not too dying for," he added.


Endanger the health
In fact, it actually reduces drinking can harm our health. Water baseball serves only relieve thirst, but also as solvents, catalysts, lubricants, regulating body temperature, a provider of minerals and electrolytes to the body. So do not underestimate drinking.


Prof. Dr. Ridwan Hardinsyah MS, Chairman of the Food Pergizi Indonesia, and researcher of The Indonesian Hydration Study, states, lack of water intake can lead to physical disorders.
"Children's school will experience a lack of water intake and risk of cognitive decline of renal impairment in the future," said Hardinsyah.


Intake of pure water with a target volume of two liters of urine can prevent recurrence of urinary tract stones. Intake of large volumes of pure water, accompanied not resist the urge to urinate, is one way to prevent urinary tract infections.


While dehydration can lead to disturbances in brain function, such as concentration and thinking ability. Physically, the lack of fluids can reduce your stamina and productivity because we are so susceptible to interference, headache, lethargy, weakness, seizures, unconscious.


The clinical manifestations of dehydration is most closely related to decreased intravascular volume, which in turn can lead to organ failure and death.




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