{"id":50196,"date":"2020-02-14T16:08:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T12:08:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/dehydration\/"},"modified":"2020-11-16T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T13:12:15","slug":"dehydration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.armgeo.am\/en\/dehydration\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Dehydration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our body is a complex and fragile mechanism. Its natural work requires several preconditions: favorable conditions of atmospheric pressure and heat, a sufficient amount of food and liquid, various trace elements and vitamins. It is enough that one of these conditions is violated, and the body goes out of balance, begins the processes of balancing the deficit or an excess of something. If these processes continues for a longer period, it can have serious consequences for the human body. Of particular importance among them is dehydration. More than 65% of our body is made up of water. That is why water is extremely important for our body. Thanks to water, nutrients dissolve in the blood and enter our cells. Therefore, with a lack of water, the body does not receive enough nutrients and gets tired quickly. This is what we call dehydration. It happens when the amount of fluid that your body looses exceeds the amount of fluid it receives. Our body loses fluid from sweat, breathing, secretion.<\/p>\n

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Water in human body<\/p><\/div>\n

Dry air in high altitude conditions contributes to dehydration. When we inhale a dry air it \u201cabsorbs\u201d moisture from our body, and when we exhale the moisture leaves our body with the breath. But most of the body liquids are lost during sweating or vomiting and even because of diarrhea. These are problems that may occur during difficult mountain trekkings. Therefore, you should remember that in such situations the injured person is especially vulnerable.<\/p>\n

During intensive physical work, especially during cyclic sports (running, hiking, cycling, swimming), our body loses various trace elements more intensively: salts, electrolytes, which are very important for metabolism. After all, it is the minerals that are responsible for regulating the rate of fluid absorption by the cell membrane, and for the process of dissolution of water in the blood. If these substances are not enough, the body begins to weaken, the metabolism is disturbed. Also, it contributes to the development of other diseases, such as hypothermia,<\/a> sunstroke<\/a> <\/span>or mountain sickness.<\/p>\n\n