OT: Rotating Circles

[oleg]

Originally posted by Chief Engineer Erax:
When you begin to deyhdrate, the first thing your body does is try to hold the liquid in. So dehydrated people do not pee.

Incidentally, that's why drunk people smell so bad - alcohol inhibits your kidneys, but your body still needs to get rid of its urea, so it eliminates a part of it through the sweat glands - yes, very drunk people literally begin to sweat urine.

I just think I'll go and have a shower now.

Hmm... I was always under _very_ strong impression beer stimulates my kidneys all right. But I'll better take shower just in case

[Erax]

Um, no, I got it wrong. (Dammit Jim, I'm an engineer, not a doctor !) Yes, alcohol will make your kidneys work overtime, so you will lose too much liquid and become dehydrated (that's what a hangover is, really - mild dehydration, so drink plenty of water before going to sleep and you'll avoid the worst of it).

Once you are dehydrated, your body stops eliminating liquid, but it must eliminate urea and so on and so forth.