| While they're usually benign and caused by external factors, dry lips can be a sign of dehydration. Ironically, licking your lips can worsen the problem. Chronically dry lips can also signal a nutritional deficiency, as well as Sjogren's syndrome, an autoimmune disease that affects the moisture-producing glands. (See A Dry Mouth or Excessive Thirst, below, and Appendix I.)
BLUE LIPS
Someone with blue lips may be making a fashion statement, but it's more likely that he or she has been out in the cold too long. |
| Conversely, bags can also be a sign of the dehydration caused by alcohol, so they may be our body's way of telling us that we're drinking too much. Fluid can also accumulate around our eyes while we sleep, which is why we often wake up with puffy eyes.
STOP SIGN
Sleeping with your head elevated may help reduce fluid retention under the eyes. And many people find that applying cold cucumber slices or chilled tea bags over their eyes for 5 to 10 minutes helps reduce bags and puffiness.
Bags under the eyes are also a common warning sign of hypothyroidism, an underactive thyroid. |
| While no one is quite sure what brings these night visitors on, they can be a sign of overexertion or dehydration. Although harmless, nocturnal leg cramps can sometimes signal diabetes, Parkinson's disease, anemia, and thyroid problems.
LEG CRAMPS DURING THE DAY
If you frequently get leg cramps when walking or climbing, you may be experiencing intermittent claudication, a decreased flow of oxygen-rich blood to the extremities caused by fatty plaque buildup in the leg arteries. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 These ingredients are used in moisturizers because they duplicate the natural lipids (sebum or oil) in our skin, or prevent dehydration, and that's great. But if you have problems already with the oil being created in your pores, adding more of the same kind of substance will only make things worse. Despite the problems these ingredients can cause, they show up in lots and lots of so-called oil-free products.
While there is evidence that some specific ingredients can trigger breakouts, there are no absolutes. I wish there were, but there aren't. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 In serious cases, the persistent diarrhea can cause dehydration and death. But like the itching caused by pinworms and the sneeze caused by the cold, the diarrhea caused by cholera isn't just a symptom—it's a transmission channel. It's how the disease makes it into the water supply and ensures its ability to find new hosts.
Malaria manipulates human hosts too—in its case, by incapacitating us. |
Tom Bohager
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 High fevers may cause delirium, confusion, dehydration, seizures, or even a coma. Consult a physician if a high fever persisrs.
Recommendations for treating fevers include increased hydration, rest and sleep, avoiding heavy or solid foods until the condition has improved, and supporting the immune system and maintaining the body's normal pH levels. |
Andreas Moritz
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 For as long as an energy-depleting influence is maintained and toxicity and dehydration continue to impair immunity, even the most powerful antibiotics won't be able to stop the infection permanently. As already mentioned, bacteria, viruses and fungi are not the real causes behind infections, although this is what the patient is told. Infectious germs cannot thrive in a healthy, clean environment. To do their work, which is to dispose of waste and destroy dead or damaged cells, they need to be in a fertile environment—a terrain that offers them a job worth their while. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| This type of laxative can also cause severe dehydration and electrolyte depletion from water loss, as well as cramping and bloating due to gas buildup during the initial waiting period.
EXAMPLES OF OSMOTIC LAXATIVES
Lactulose: Duphalac®45, Kristalose®46, and Actilax® (Lactulose)47 i Sorbitol: Sorbilax®48
Polyethylene glycol compounds: MiraLAX®49
Magnesium Hydroxide (milk of magnesia): Phillips® Milk of Magnesia50, Dulcolax® Milk of Magnesia51, and Freelax®52
Stimulant laxatives are made with harsh, often toxic chemicals or herbs that cause the intestinal muscles to spasm and contract. |
| Symptoms of infection include severe diarrhea, bloating, gas, abdominal cramping, weight loss, greasy bowel movements, and dehydration.
Daycare centers are commonly associated with exposure to Giardia and other pathogens. In fact "19% of the clinic visits for acute diarrhea were attributable to child care, with the odds of infection being up to 3 times higher than in non-communal settings!"121 This parasite is associated with a quarter of all cases of gastrointestinal illness and is not always easily detected. |
| DOCTOR'S NOTE:
Hangovers are actually caused by dehydration from alcohol consumption coupled with toxic effects from the fermentation within your digestive system. Some drinkers claim taking oxygen-based colon cleansers after drinking can reduce the noticeable effects of hangovers.
How to Eliminate Toxins from Alcohol
Eliminate or drastically reduce all alcohol consumption.
Detoxify and cleanse your body. Once your body is cleansed, the cravings for alcohol should disappear.
Reduce drinking habits to a maximum of one night weekly. |
| This frequently leads to a constant state of dehydration and malnourishment among coffee drinkers. This effect is not only due to the caffeine in coffee—the same effects are seen in people who regularly drink decaffeinated varieties.
Coffee is also highly acidic and can lead to an overproduction of stomach acid that can severely irritate the intestines. Unbelievably, decaffeinated coffee has been shown to trigger even more acid production than regular coffee. This over-production (when combined with coffee's laxative effects) can cause too much stomach acid to move into the intestines. |
| In some cases, diarrhea caused by Salmonella is so severe the resulting dehydration requires hospitalization. These patients can also develop an inflammation of the intestinal walls. The bacteria can penetrate the walls of the digestive tract, travel via the bloodstream, and then infect other organs of the body. Death is possible from a severe salmonellosis infection but normally occurs only in small children, the elderly, and anyone with a weakened immune system. Around 30,000 cases of culture-confirmed cases are reported to the CDC (Center for Disease Control) every year in the United States. |
Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D.
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 In Russian folk medicine, the drug is used for dehydration, cramps, fever, and menstrual disorders, but efficacy is unproven.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Adonis is contraindicated with digitalis glycoside therapy and also in potassium deficiency.
PRECAUTIONS AND ADVERSE REACTIONS
General: Despite the strong efficacy of the drug's cardioactive steroid gylcosides in parenteral application, serious poisoning in the course of per oral administration is hardly to be expected due to the low resorption rate. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Too little water can lead to dehydration, which can cause weakness and delirium if severe.
Electrolytes
An electrolyte solution can be formed when certain mineral salts are dissolved in water. Electrolyte solutions were originally named because of their ability to conduct electricity. Many of the fluids in the body are electrolyte solutions with dissolved minerals. For example, table salt (sodium chloride) can easily dissolve in water to form an electrolyte solution. There are three important areas of the body that contain electrolytes in solution. |
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
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 A major reason for constipation is simple dehydration. Most studies have shown that the elderly are frequently dehydrated, a main cause of which is their desire to reduce the number of trips to the bathroom—especially at night. As a result, fluid intake in this group is severely inadequate, which causes increased dehydration of the bowel, leading to constipation. A main function of the large bowel is reabsorption of water. Normally, we absorb about one liter of fluid from the bowel a day. When dehydrated, we absorb even more water from the bowel and excrete less in the urine. |
Andreas Moritz
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| I told her that her natural thirst signals were no longer working due to cellular dehydration, and that without drinking enough water, her body could not return to balance. It was obvious to me that her body would use any amount of water she drank to instantly remove some of the toxins lurking in her stomach, giving rise to nausea. In her case, any therapy other than drinking water would have been a waste of her time and money. |
| The Pain Connection
Another major indicator of dehydration in the body is pain. In response to an increasing shortage of water, the brain activates and stores the important neurotransmitter histamine, which directs certain subordinate water regulators to redistribute the amount of water that is in circulation. This system helps move water to areas where it is needed for essential metabolic activity and survival when facing such a shortage, as may occur during a drought. |
| They not only fail to address the real problem (which may be dehydration), but they also cut off the connection between the neurotransmitter, histamine, and its subordinate regulators, such as vasopressin, Renin-Angiotensin (RA), prostaglandin (PG), and kinins. Although the action of pain-killing drugs can relieve localized pain for a while, it also precludes your body from knowing the priority areas for water distribution. This can greatly confuse your body's internal communications systems and spread chaos throughout the body. |
| Prescription pain medication suppresses the body's primary signal of dehydration. Pain killers "short-circuit" the body's emergency routes for water supply; they also sabotage proper waste elimination and sow the seeds of chronic illness.
There is enough documentation to show that pain medications may have fatal side effects. They can cause gastrointestinal bleeding, which kills thousands each year. The morphine-type compounds these legal drugs contain can also lead to serious, life-altering addictions. |
| Most patients nowadays are suffering from "thirst disease," a progressive condition of dehydration. Some parts of the body may be dehydrated more than others. Unable to remove toxins from these parts due to insufficient water reserves, the body is faced with the consequences of their destructive effects (toxemia). The lack of recognition of the most basic aspects of water metabolism in the body more often than not becomes a "diagnosed" illness, when it is really the body's urgent cry for water. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Some researchers theorize that heartburn is a sign of an internal water shortage, especially dehydration in the upper part of the GI tract. So try drinking up first before you overload your system with antacids and medications, but do this in between meals, not during meals: You'll want O to drink only about 4 ounces of water with a 03
O meal so that you don't further dilute HC1, which ^ will be needed to digest incoming proteins. § m
Step Two: On to Enzymes and Probiotics
The natural cure for heartburn is a two-step process. First, get the food triggers under control (see above). |
Bill Sardi
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 Chemotherapy patients are more likely to be hospitalized or visit emergency rooms for side effects related to chemotherapy, such as fever, infection, nausea, diarrhea, malnutrition, dehydration or low white blood cell or low platelet count. [J National Cancer Institute 98:1108-17, 2006]
Chemo brain
Most cancer drugs cannot discriminate between healthy and cancerous cells. They damage both. Patients can never get back to a state of wellness during chemotherapy. Brain tissues are particularly vulnerable. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 The gravest dangers facing Josie, like any patient with extensive burns, were infection and dehydration. Without the first two protective layers of skin, burn victims are acutely vulnerable to bacteria trying to get in and the water in their bodies leaking out. Infants and toddlers lose water through their damaged skin more quickly than older children and adults, because the surface of their bodies is larger in comparison to their bodies' volume. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| They have an exquisite, silky texture and an incredible ability to prevent dehydration without suffocating skin. All of these ingredients spread over the skin to create a thin, imperceptible layer, re-creating the benefits of our own oil production, preventing evaporation, and giving dry skin the lubrication it is missing.
FOR THOSE WITH NORMAL TO OILY SKIN OR MINIMAL DRYNESS
You may be wondering what to use if you don't have dryness, but still want to give your skin the ingredients it needs to look and feel better. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Cholera is an acute infectious disease of the small intestine caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae; it is characterized by profuse watery diarrhea, vomiting, muscle cramps, severe dehydration, and depletion of electrolytes, and it may lead rapidly to death.
Japanese researchers, supported by the Japanese Cholera Panel of the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Science Program, took a closer look at the bacteria-fighting effects of green tea extract in experiments conducted on animals. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Chanel, features a "powerful formula" that "performs at the source of dehydration," but somehow the ad copy didn't mention that this product contains a high amount of alcohol (it's the third ingredient). When alcohol is listed before such skin-identical ingredients as glycerin and sodium PCA, it means your dry skin won't get the moisture boost it deserves. Also, as with the Hydramax+, Moisture Boost Cream above, the unique, potentially beneficial ingredients are barely present, making this an expensive investment that guarantees relatively meager returns for skin. |
| None of the ingredients in either product can control skin's fluid balance, although the alcohol in the Cooling Mask may cause some superficial dehydration. Although this duo won't work as claimed, I suppose it can be a somewhat soothing experience for those with money to burn.
©/© $$$ Intensive Treatment (Soin Intensif) ($130 for the kit) is sold as a weekly treatment to exfoliate and nourish skin instead of just using your usual nighttime skin-care lineup. The Lotion Intensive (6 0. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| Filtration and vacuum inspissa-tion follow prior to extensive dehydration. A decoction is prepared by combining 1.5 g drug with 1 cup water.
Storage: The drug should be stored in tightly sealed containers. literature
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| Spring): primulaverin (3%, 2-hydroxy-5-methoxy- benzoic acid methyl ester-O-xyloglucoside) changing over during dehydration into the characteristic-smelling 5-methoxy-methyl salicylate
Triterpene saponins (5 to 10%): chief components primulic acid A (chief aglycone protoprimulagenin)
EFFECTS: COWSLIP ROOT
The saponin content gives the drug expectorant and diuretic effects. Recent studies on these effects are not available. The mode of action is postulated to be due to vagal stimulation. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 However, the most distinguishing feature is extreme dehydration caused by frequent urination. Symptoms include polydipsia, polyuria, and severe dehydration. Laboratory diagnostics reveal hyperglycemia equal or above to 600 mg/dl, hyperosmolarity >320 mOsm/L, arterial pH equal to or over 7.3, and the absence of ketones. Mortality rates are much more severe than DKA, ranging from 20% to 80%. Rehydration is of utmost importance.
HYPOGLYCEMIA
Hypoglycemia in a diabetic is primarily caused by incorrect dosage of insulin or hypoglycemic drugs. |
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