OT: Rotating Circles - Page 4

Loser · #31 June 10th, 2003, 02:14 PM

A lack of water does not cause dehydration, it is dehydration. A lack of water could cause a person to be diagnosed with dehydration, but I'm awfully sure dehydration is the name for a lack of water, not the result of a lack of water.

Note: latex paint causes dehydration.

Fyron · #32 June 10th, 2003, 08:46 PM

Dehydration is an extended lack of sufficient levels of water. You can become dehydrated while drinking very small amounts of water. Or while drinking sea water, which is indeed water, but the salt content makes it very very bad for humans.

oleg · #33 June 10th, 2003, 09:16 PM

That's what I telling you ! You guys pee too much. Certainly. Keep it tight and you will be alright next morning even after the 0.45L C2H5OH stimulation.

Just don't sue me for the friendly advice

narf poit chez BOOM · #34 June 10th, 2003, 09:49 PM

although i've heard that you can drink sea water in very small quantities in an emergency.

Fyron · #35 June 10th, 2003, 11:03 PM

Oleg, holding in urine for extended periods of time causes more problems than urinating too often (which really is not a problem, just drink more water and no adverse effects will be felt). Bacteria grow and multiply in urine, and if you keep it in there too long, you run the risks of getting some nasty infections.

Erax · #36 June 10th, 2003, 11:17 PM

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.

oleg · #37 June 11th, 2003, 01:15 AM

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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 · #38 June 11th, 2003, 02:36 AM

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.