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Diseases caused by dehydration

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Diseases caused by dehydration

Dehydration leads to failure of all the body functions: digestion, synthesis, delivery and excretion of substances etc. When the body begins to suffer from dehydration, the breach of its functions do not happen for a certain period of time, due to the adaptation abilities. But as the degree of dehydration increases, the body is approaching a threshold beyond which the regulatory system can not keep the body balance.

The human body has many signals of its need in water, including the development of various pathologies, such as asthma and allergies. Among other signs are chronic pain in the stomach and the colon, rheumatoid joint pains, pains in the back and legs, headaches, colitis, and the most terrifying sign, pain in the heart. Dehydration is especially harmful to the immune system cells, its disorder causes the so-called immune diseases. They are all chronic ones: bronchitis, asthma, infertility, lupus erythematosus, scleroderma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer disease, cancer. They are complex and involve failures of many biological functions due to lack of water.

Dehydrated body needs the water but it can refill it successfully only if there is enough salt in the body. Salt keeps the water in the body and normalizes the composition of the blood and intercellular fluid. When there is not salt enough, the water is removed from the body to keep salt concentration constant. After the cells receive enough water they are not dehydrated any more, so the disorders caused by the dehydration can gradually disappear.

4 Comments »

  • Lisa said:

    This is one of the better articles on the subject available: MUCH more comprehensive and informative than the Mayo Clinic and Google Health articles that list basic (obvious) symptoms but don’t explain much.

  • James A. Adduci said:

    Hello,
    I applaud you for helping to educate people about the dangers of dehydration.
    Respectfully,
    Jim Adduci

  • anna said:

    Hi

    I’ve sufferred so many of these illnesses, especially cough varient brittle asthma (asthma that no one can explain!), allergies, severe abdominal pain, low blood pressure,etc

    I will increase my water intake…now!

    Thank you for such great information.

  • Ken said:

    Greetings,
    I found this site and came to this page after wondering why I feel fatigued and thirsty every day (Along with other goings-on). Never imagined that it could be as simple as dehydration… I’ve got asthma as well and thought the cough was allergies. And I’ve felt the chest pains, but only attributed it to the way I type on the keyboard. Metaphorically speaking, that lowly glass of water is looking much like wine at this point! Thank you!!

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