Symptoms of Dehydration

Dehydration is loss of fluids from the body. In dehydration amount of body fluid present in the body is not enough to carry out different functions. When person starts dehydrating he/she shows many symptoms some of them are given below

Loss of appetite

In dehydration person does not like to eat anything.

Headache

Many diseases cause headaches. Dehydrated patient also shows constant headache

Blood pressure

Pressure applied by the blood on the wall of arteries is called as blood pressure. This is one of the important symptoms of the dehydration.
Blood pressure decreases when blood is carried from the heart to different organs through arteries. Arterioles show low blood pressure.
When person is suffering from dehydration blood pressure decreases

Dizziness

Dehydrated person shows inability in perception and experiences vertigo, disequilibrium and lightheadness.
Vertigo is a feeling of spinning along with nausea and vomiting.
Dehydrated person is not able to balance his/her own body and falls while walking or doing actions. Person feels very weak and visualizes faint vision

Delirium

If dehydration is continued without any treatment then it can leads to loss of focusing attention on one point
This is caused due to problem in the neurons of the cerebral cortex

Skin problem

Skin becomes dry and loose
If you take pinch of the skin and it doesn�t come back to its normal position

Constipation

Sometime patient shows symptoms like constipation
Patient affected by constipation shows difficulty in passing waste material to outside
Colon of the large intestine absorbs more water as compared to normal to form hard stool

Thirst

This is caused when person is suffering from the mild dehydration
Person feel like to drink for balancing of the fluid in the body
This causes when concentration of the water falls in the body which gives signal to the brain to drink something.

Urine

When person suffering from dehydration it causes formation of less volume of urine
This is caused due to presence of less amount of water in the body

Increase in heart rate

When concentration of the body fluids falls in the body, it leads to increase in the heart rate as well as respiration rate
Heart rate and respiration increase to balance decreased volume of the fluid in the body

Nausea

This is symptom of many diseases sometimes it can be caused due to the side effects of the drugs
Patient suffering from dehydration also causes nausea

Stop sweating

In the body of patient less amount of the water is present
In dehydration condition, the body can not afford to lose the water in the form of sweat therefore body stops sweating

Comma

If dehydration is not treated on time then it can lead to coma
Coma is a condition in which person does not receive any response or stimulus from the surrounding
Most of the time this condition arises when dehydration is untreated