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Drinking water, ingesting water either through actual drinking or intake through water-infused foods, is necessary for a number of metabolic reasons. Many systems in your body rely on proper hydration levels. The general term for too low hydration is dehydration. The symptoms of dehydration are as follows:

Initial onset: (at or before the 2% loss of bodily water volume)

  • flushing of the skin
  • headache
  • increased thirst and dry mouth
  • decreased urination
  • loss of appetite
  • dry skin (especially chapped lips)

Mild dehydration: 3-5% loss of volume

  • increased thirst
  • decreased urine volume and concentration of urine
  • tiredness
  • decreased or lack of tears
  • dizziness

Moderate dehydration: 4-6% loss of volume

  • increased thirst
  • no urine output
  • decreased sweating (sweating may cease)
  • lethargy
  • confusion
  • seizures
  • decreased blood pressure (hypotension)
  • fainting
  • sunken eyes
  • and in infants sunken fontanel (soft spot on the top of the head)

Severe dehydration: 6-10% loss of volume

  • heart rate increase
  • respiration rate increase
  • increased body temperature
  • headache
  • nausea
  • tingling in extremities (parathesia)
  • twitching muscles
  • dim or unfocused vision
  • urination, if possible, may be very painful
  • delirium (marked by manic state, hallucinations, delusions incoherence)

Fatal dehydration: 10-15% loss may be recoverable, but greater than 15% is usually fatal.

  • shrivelled or wrinkled skin
  • unconsiousness
  • Death

That persons urine will then also turn yellow, as this is because the persons' body is not digesting food, and liquids.

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