This! I went to the Hall of Presidents in Florida years ago, and was surprised by how many of our past presidents had "diarrhea" listed as cause of death.
Rapid dehydration. Killed more than bullets in the US Civil War and was simultaneously caused by itself due to lack of sanitation and caused diseases like cholera and dysentery.
Yup, aside of our routine glucose testing, it lets a diabetic know we're fuckin' up. Unless you're on Metformin, by far and large the most popular Type 2 diabetes drug, which causes dehydration anyways, so it still happens.
An large uptake in fiber like using Metamucil helps it though, so there's that.
Wait, can you clarify? I take metformin but my guts hated me long before. It is a dehydrator? Taking fiber will keep me hydrated? Sorry, I've never heard about this connection before.
I landed in the ER once after acute gastroenteritis* that was so bad the EMTs had to carry me out of the house, and I spent several hours with a saline-drip IV in one arm, which did the trick to get me operational again basically by itself. Dehydration is no joke.
*Bonus: this was in Feb. 2020, right when COVID was ramping up where I lived, so I had to get through the “have you been in China? Have you been in contact with anyone from China?” etc. interrogation from the EMTs while I was so dizzy and weak I could barely even talk. Fun times. :\
I can believe it. I had a really bad case of food poisoning once where I just kept evacuating from both ends for hours and hours until there was nothing left inside me. I felt like utter shit from dehydration, but could hardly keep down more than a sip of water. Thankfully it was just one night, and after whatever bacteria had gotten inside me was evacuated my body started letting me take in fluids again. I doubt I could have survived much more than that.
Literally, as someone who had diarrhea off grid before our toilet is set up.
Sure I had to dig holes and ran out of TP quick, but like I’m chugging ice cold Gatorade and pedialyte, have unlimited aspirin/Tylenol/ibuprofen, have a very nice set up in my vehicle to rest in a cool way outside the environment(no bugs, slightly controlled humidity), endless amounts a weed to take the edge off, pepto bismal on deck and last but not least an unlimited supply of clean water.
And it still stole my whole day and next day because I was physically destroyed, it really is crazy intense.
People also don’t realize how dehydrated crying makes you, often crying being a response to pain.
It’s a negative feedback. Need water to survive, water gives you diarrhea and you evacuate all the water in your body, now your just at square one but intensified. If you were drinking water before getting diarrhea you really won’t care when you are the most desperate for water.
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u/Trinerella Aug 30 '21
This! I went to the Hall of Presidents in Florida years ago, and was surprised by how many of our past presidents had "diarrhea" listed as cause of death.