Healthy Water Consumption

[Spikedriver]

I know a guy that used to drink too much water . It is me, put me in the ICU and hospital for 5 days in 2020, serum sodium level was 106.

I am limited to 2 liters a day, to keep my sodium levels near normal. I have learned the symptoms, and have salt tablets on hand for difficult times.

Of course, you all knew I was "special"

What are the symptoms?

 

[dademoss]

What are the symptoms?

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373711

Mine were mostly:

• Headache
• Confusion
• Loss of energy, drowsiness and fatigue
• Restlessness and irritability
• Muscle weakness, spasms or cramps

I couldn't track well mentally, type for , or stay awake.

 

[Pearl]

I'll be back shortly, for some reason I have to pee!!

 

[Spikedriver]

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hyponatremia/symptoms-causes/syc-20373711

Mine were mostly:

• Headache
• Confusion
• Loss of energy, drowsiness and fatigue
• Restlessness and irritability
• Muscle weakness, spasms or cramps

That perfectly describes dehydration too.

 

[Neb]

Lol I'm quite familiar with Air Force culture. My pops was a radar operator. He washed out of flight training after suffering a collapsed lung at high altitude. His cousin was an instructor at the AF academy and retired as a Lt. General from the reserves. My niece is currently a Captain at Wright-Patterson in Ohio. I've heard every Air Force joke in existence. Pops says all the other branches can say whatever they want. He slept in a warm bed every night, never had to eat mud, and the heaviest bag he ever had to carry was the sack lunch the chow hall made for him to take to the radar trailer.

My father started as a machine gunner for the Korean war in the marines. Switched to air force and retired after 23 years.

My brother did 20 and retired after teaching electronic counter- measures.

The air force was a family freindly branch.

Ben

 

[Pearl]

Easy for either to be mistaken for something else! That's why I posted about inactive elderly people. They may not be hydrated, causing these symptoms and possibly UTIs!

 

[dademoss]

That perfectly describes dehydration too.

yep, except for the low serum sodium level. That was my issue, I thought I was dehydrated. I was waterlogged

It did get me my first ambulance ride

 

[Spikedriver]

Easy for either to be mistaken for something else! That's why I posted about inactive elderly people. They may not be hydrated, causing these symptoms and possibly UTIs!

As my mom's mobility got worse, she stopped drinking fluids so she wouldn't have to go to the bathroom. Then the UTIs started and every time she got one it would put her down for a few days. Then she'd never quite recover the mobility she had before the UTI. It became a downward spiral and now she's in a wheelchair in the nursing home...