Symptoms of dehydration

[RogerS]

Please don't trust your judgement on whether or not your pee is dark brown in colour to decide if you are dehydrated. I did. Wrong. Big time wrong.

Just come out of an eight week period of diarrhoea where towards the end I was in a downward spiral having no energy, appetite (didn't eat for ten days over Christmas/New Year), lost 10kg in ten days. Thought I was hydrated as my pee (when it came) was clear. Which explains why on Saturday I was in A&E having 1.5 litres of IV saline fed into me.

Take care.

 

[dm65]

You have my sympathies Roger

I ended up having a camera shoved somewhere it shouldn't be allowed to be shoved after a couple of months of pee problems early last year

Hope you get better soon

 

[wellywood]

Hope you're feeling better now Roger. The only time I've been de-hydrated was when I went bush with my son one weekend. I lost so much liquid and salt I had severe cramps in the legs. Not amusing.
Fortunately the beer intake now keeps the cramps at bay.

 

[carlb40]

Really sorry to hear that Roger and do hope you are on the mend now?

I find i start to get a headache if i don't drink enough fluids. I remember my first day on a new site last year down in banbury. It was during the start of that hot spell we had. The site manager laughed when i said i had 10 litres of water with me. Came in handy the next day as i drank 7 litres of it. - Due to not drinking enough on the 1st day and going home with a headache

 

[cambournepete]

I get very tired if I don't drink enough (water, that is).

Hope you're feeling better Roger.

 

[Eric The Viking]

Glad you're on the mend Roger - gastro- problems are horrible, especially for eight weeks!

I echo your caution too. I'm on immuno-suppressant stuff, and I have to be careful: on two occasions I've had a wee infection start, only to turn really nasty within a few hours. The first time it happened my initial response was disbelief, "it's only been four hours!". These days I drink a *lot* of coffee to ensure the system is well flushed out!

E.

 

[MMUK]

I lost so much liquid and salt I had severe cramps in the legs. Not amusing.
Fortunately the beer intake now keeps the cramps at bay.

I get that at times, not due to dehydration but low salt.

Peanut butter sandwiches solve the problem :mrgreen:

 

[Harbo]

Sounds horrible Roger - hope you are on the mend?

Dehydration is a common side effect of diarrhoea hence the rehydration supplements like Dioralyte?

Rod

 

[wellywood]

I lost so much liquid and salt I had severe cramps in the legs. Not amusing.
Fortunately the beer intake now keeps the cramps at bay.

I get that at times, not due to dehydration but low salt.

Peanut butter sandwiches solve the problem :mrgreen:

I prefer my solution when taken with a packet of Pork Scratchings

 

[MMUK]

I lost so much liquid and salt I had severe cramps in the legs. Not amusing.
Fortunately the beer intake now keeps the cramps at bay.

I get that at times, not due to dehydration but low salt.

Peanut butter sandwiches solve the problem :mrgreen:

I prefer my solution when taken with a packet of Pork Scratchings

I love pork scratchings but they're a bit hard on my teeth

 

[RogerS]

Sounds horrible Roger - hope you are on the mend?

Dehydration is a common side effect of diarrhoea hence the rehydration supplements like Dioralyte?

Rod

I had some and probably should have taken them earlier ....I did for a while in the early six weeks when everything was still tickety-boo work/living-wise apart from the odd trip to the loo. It's when I started nose-diving on Christmas Day that it all started going pear-shaped and a glass of dioralyte was immediately thrown up as being way too salty. Even sipping it through a straw I could only manage 500ml a day.

The key thing was my mistakenly thinking that just because my pee was clear that I was hydrated.

 

[StevieB]

Put the dioralyte in something like blackcurrant squash - tis what the doc recommended for one of my sons when he was little and kept throwing it up. Worked a treat. You never empty your entire stomach, so even when you do vomit you retain some of the fluid.

Steve

 

[RogerS]

Put the dioralyte in something like blackcurrant squash - tis what the doc recommended for one of my sons when he was little and kept throwing it up. Worked a treat. You never empty your entire stomach, so even when you do vomit you retain some of the fluid.

Steve

Tried that, Steve. No difference.

 

[whiskywill]

I love pork scratchings but they're a bit hard on my teeth

I am very reluctant to eat them since breaking a tooth on one and having to pay £177 for a crown.

 

[MMUK]

I love pork scratchings but they're a bit hard on my teeth

I am very reluctant to eat them since breaking a tooth on one and having to pay £177 for a crown.

I've got about 12 teeth that need serious archaeology and reconstruction by Time Team :lol:

I've always said, if I'm in a motorcycle accident to do my teeth while I'm out cold - I hate needles!