Importance of hydration and total water intake for health and disease
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WATER INTAKE AND RISK OF HYPONATRAEMIA IN PRADER-WILLI SYNDROME.
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: Unusual water intake and drinking behaviour has occasionally been observed in individuals with Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS). The aim of this study is to explore whether this observation is a part of the PWS phenotype and what the consequences may be. The parents of 51 individuals with PWS (age range 2-40 years) were [...]
How Primary Care Providers Might Review Evidence on Hydration
Primary care providers (PCPs) are increasing their use of evidence-based medicine (EBM) in the care they give patients. They evaluate the available evidence to determine if it applies to their patients and seek to complement their clinical experience with EBM to improve patient outcomes. In evidence-based practices, patient oriented data are valued more highly than [...]
INTAKES OF PLAIN WATER, MOISTURE IN FOODS AND BEVERAGES, AND TOTAL WATER IN THE ADULT US POPULATION ”NUTRITIONAL, MEAL PATTERN, AND BODY WEIGHT CORRELATES: NATIONAL HEALTH AND NUTRITION EXAMINATION SURVEYS 1999
Background: There is a surprising paucity of studies that have systematically examined the correlates of water intake in the US population. nnObjective: The objective was to examine the association of contributors of water intake with dietary characteristics.
CHANGES IN FOOD AND NUTRIENT INTAKE OF 6- TO 17-YEAR-OLD GERMANS BETWEEN THE 1980S AND 2006.
OBJECTIVE: To compare the food consumption and nutrient intakes of German children and adolescents in the 1980s with present dietary habits. DESIGN: Two cross-sectional representative surveys, the German National Food Consumption Study (Nationale Verzehrsstudie, NVS) from 1985-8 and the nutrition module 'EsKiMo' of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS) [...]
FLUID AND ELECTROLYTES IN THE ELDERLY
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The intake of water and electrolytes is inseparable from the ingestion of nutrients by normal or artificial means. Recent reports have agreed in criticizing the poor standards of practice and of training in the management of fluid and electrolyte balance, resulting in a large amount of avoidable morbidity, particularly in the elderly [...]
NURSING PRACTICE AND ORAL FLUID INTAKE OF OLDER PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA
AIM: This paper describes the findings of a descriptive study about what nurses do to ensure that older people with dementia have adequate hydration. BACKGROUND: Frail nursing home residents, particularly those who cannot accurately communicate their thirst as a result of Alzheimer's disease and who depend on nursing staff for their fluid intake, are at [...]
SEVERE DECREMENTS IN COGNITION FUNCTION AND MOOD INDUCED BY SLEEP LOSS, HEAT, DEHYDRATION, AND UNDERNUTRITION DURING SIMULATED COMBAT
BackgroundnMilitary exercises generate high levels of stress to simulate combat, providing a unique opportunity to examine cognitive and physiologic responses of normal humans to acute stress.nnMethodsnCognitive and physiologic markers of stress were evaluated before, during, and after an intense training exercise conducted for 53 hours in the heat. Cognitive performance, mood, physical activity, sleep, body [...]
SOME INTERACTIONS BETWEEN GASTROINTESTINAL FUNCTION AND FLUID AND ELECTROLYTE HOMEOSTASIS
Purpose of review: The gastrointestinal tract plays an important role in the maintenance of fluid and electrolyte balance, and its diseases cause disturbances in that balance. Conversely, fluid and electrolyte disorders may disturb gastrointestinal function. The purpose of this review is to highlight some recent literature describing these interactions against a background of fluid and [...]