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FA'ers tend to not drink enough fluids. Did you know up to 60% of the human adult body is water? According to H.H. Mitchell, Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, the brain and heart are composed of 73% water, and the lungs are about 83% water. The skin contains 64% water, muscles and kidneys are 79%, and even the bones are watery: 31%.
So what if one under-drinks, under-hydrates? See this study, and these weren't even FA'ers. And from www.medicinenet.com here is a partial list of signs/symptoms of dehydration:
And so then in the ER when the ER doctor wants to slam a bolus of fluids into the FA'er the parent or FA'er needs to inform the doctor the FA'er is a "fragile" and/or "cardiac" patient, and rapid administration of fluids may overload their striated-muscled heart. See Emergencies: Hospital and ER. |
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