Showing posts with label Dehydration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dehydration. Show all posts

Sunday, August 7

Pinch Skin to See if Dehydrated


Your body offers all sorts of clues about what’s going on inside it — if you know where to look.

When it comes to being dehydrated, a quick skin pinch can be one way to find out if you’re losing more fluids than you’re taking in. 

That's a danger on scorching August days when huge parts of the country are under heat advisories

The heat index is expected to reach 100 degrees or more in Texas, Ohio, Oklahoma and several other states on Wednesday.

Dehydration means your body doesn’t have enough fluids to work properly, a potentially life-threatening condition, the National Library of Medicine warned.

It can sneak up on you, so a verified TikTok user who identifies himself as Dr. Karan Raj, a surgical doctor with the U.K.'s National Health Service, posted a video pointing to the skin pinch, or skin turgor test, as a way of checking.  READ MORE...