What is Dehydration?
What is Dehydration?
- Dehydration: Loss of fluids in the body.
- Dehydration: The condition that results from excessive loss of water from a living organism.
Source - Diseases Database
- Dehydration: dryness resulting from the removal of water.
Source - WordNet 2.1
Dehydration: Introduction
How serious is Dehydration?
Complications of Dehydration:
see complications of Dehydration
What causes Dehydration?
Causes of Dehydration: see causes of Dehydration
Risk factors for Dehydration:
see
risk factors for Dehydration
What are the symptoms of Dehydration?
Symptoms of Dehydration:
see symptoms of Dehydration
Complications of Dehydration:
see complications of Dehydration
Dehydration: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Dehydration.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Dehydration.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Dehydration:
see treatments for Dehydration
Prevention of Dehydration:
see prevention of Dehydration
Research for Dehydration:
see research for Dehydration
Society issues for Dehydration
Hospitalization statistics for Dehydration:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Dehydration:
- 0.07% (8,833) of hospital consultant episodes were for volume depletion in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 73% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 37% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 63% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 92% of hospital consultant episodes for volume depletion required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 13.9 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for volume depletion in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Name and Aliases of Dehydration
Main name of condition: Dehydration
Other names or spellings for Dehydration:
Water depletion
Source - Diseases Database
Desiccation
Source - WordNet 2.1
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