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Originally Posted by super maverick
sounds like dehydration
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Um, ah, That's what I said. Dehydration is a real problem, but it won't be fixed unless you understand how dehydration works. So, if it's a hydration problem then the typical response would be to drink more water. However, if you've lost enough salts in your body then not only will drinking water do you no good, it might actually kill you. He has to drink the water along with the salts that will help the body absorb and retain the water. Otherwise he's dealing with over-hydration which has lead to death in people who just chug water alone. The Marines learned this lesson about 10 years ago when they had a few recruits suffer brain damage from either being overheated or being forced to chug water before and after long marches. This is also why there seems to be several frat pledges each year who die from water drinking games. The problem is just magnified in athletes (and the military) where salts vanish very quickly.