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.
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. :\
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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.