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Dehydration
12 min read
Also known as: dehydration · desiccation · fluid deficiency · water deficiency · exsiccosis · water loss · fluid deficit · bodily desiccation · thirst from fluid deficiency
Your Body Is Speaking
The skin turns dull. The lips crack. The mouth feels like parchment, the eyes burn, the head grows heavy, thoughts turn sluggish. You drink — but it doesn't penetrate. You take in water, and still there remains a feeling of inner dryness. Something in you is no longer moist. Something has withered, without your knowing exactly when it began.
Medicine measures dehydration through electrolytes, skin turgor, pulse, blood pressure. It explains how much fluid you need each day, what sodium and potassium do, why the body collapses without water within a matter of days. All of that is true. And still it doesn't explain why some people drink and drink and still dry out inside, while others stay radiantly alive with very little fluid.
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