How to Prevention of Dehydration?
* We must offer the child water every so often and monitor the amount of urine.
* We must be strict when it comes to preparing bottles, adding scoops of milk corresponding to the amount of water and also making up well these scoops to ensure that the proportion of water and dust is appropriate.
* It is important to consult a physician if vomiting or diarrhea.
* We should not expose infants to high temperatures or direct sunlight. Of course, not ever leave a baby or a child in a closed car for a minute when temperatures are high, as they can die from the heat.
In the elderly: The elderly are also problems of dehydration, which can have serious consequences mild dehydration because they may unbalance the basic diseases. The most common cause of dehydration in the elderly is the lack of fluid intake and loss due to vomiting or diarrhea or taking diuretics.
In the elderly decreases the sensation of thirst, but thirst nullify some neurological disorders such as dementia. Other times there are alterations that prevent drinking as digestive diseases or states of unconsciousness. Also the elderly to drink water every so often, but they are not thirsty, to monitor the time and the amount you urinate, be careful with the medicines they take, making it solely on the advice of your doctor, not exposed to high temperatures or the sun without protection .
If we are in charge an old man, we must be attentive to their level of awareness and the presence of dizziness, especially when changing position or join. Other symptoms of advanced dehydration can be headache, nausea, cramps or hypotension.