At the 9/11 remembrance ceremony in New York City, Hillary Clinton was seen stumbling into a car after appeared to be struggling to stand upright and her public statement blamed her pneumonia diagnosis, but it seems that dehydration caused her experience.
Bill Clinton, her husband, mentioned that on more than one occasion but not very often, this kind of situation happened to her when she got dangerously dehydrated.
A close contact with the Democratic nominee says that her reluctance to regularly drink water has converted into a cause of tension between Hillary and her staff. The same source mentioned that a rehydration mission is advised in this case because she won’t listen when everybody tells her she needs to drink water.
More than 75 percent of American individuals are dehydrated according to recent studies, and they continue to mistake their symptoms with the ones of other diseases.
If Hillary Clinton is among the people suffering from chronic dehydration as she recently stated, a condition which was highlighted by pneumonia she was diagnosed with several days earlier, the next time a staff member approaches her with a glass of water, she is advised to drink it.
When a person is suffering from dehydration, the amount of water that goes in the body is less than the one the body loses and this process influences the functionality of the individual by reversing the balance of sugar and salt. The levels of water must be kept stable because they affect the body’s temperature, urination and bowel movement, and they enable waste elimination by sweating.
If the levels of water are not stable, they can control the increase in kidney stone risk or can lead to constipation or muscle damage. Treatment is highly advised for this kind of dehydration, and it involves the sufferer being connected to a drip that will renew fluids. However, 50 percent of the patients treated for kidney stones are known to encounter recurrence in less than ten years.
Chronic dehydration has some early signs that could easily be detected like dry mouth, tiredness, feeling lightheaded and thirsty. If suffering from extreme thirst, lack of tears when crying, little or no urination, rapid breathing and heartbeat and dizziness when standing for several seconds, doctor’s opinion is needed urgently because these are all signs of chronic dehydration.
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