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Question: What dehydration means
Answer: Dehydration occurs when your body’s water content is too low. Here are some body signals that indicate you haven’t had enough fluid:
- headaches
- fatigue
- mood changes
- slow reaction times
- dry nasal passages
- dry or cracked lips
- dark coloured urine
- muscle cramps
- weakness
- confusion
- hallucinations.
If you experience any of these symptoms, you may need to increase your fluid intake.
If you don’t rehydrate, your physical and mental performance is likely to be affected. A loss of fluid equal to two per cent of body mass (for example a 1.4 kg loss in a 70 kg person) is enough to cause a detectable decrease in performance. A loss of fluid equal to more than two per cent means you risk nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea and other gastro-intestinal problems.
It’s not possible to train your body to handle dehydration, so don’t delay fluid replacement to ‘get used to dehydration’. When you need water, you need it.
(Source: Victoria State Government, 02 Dec 2020)
Source Link: https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/HealthyLiving/Exercise-the-low-down-on-water-and-drinks