Overhydration

DEFINITIONS

Overhydration is excess fluid in the body.

CAUSE

Overhydration occur if fluid intake is greater than the discharge.
Excess fluid in the body causes sodium concentration in the blood flow becomes very small.

Drinking water in a vast number usually does not cause the pituitary gland overhydration if, kidney and heart functioning normally.

Overhydration more common in people who do not kidneys normally remove fluids, for example in people with heart disease, kidney or liver.

These people should limit the amount of water they drink and the amount of salt they eat.

SYMPTOMS

As with dehydration, the organs most susceptible to the effects of the brain overhidrasi.
If overhydration occurs slowly, the brain cells have a chance to adjust, so that only a few symptoms that arise.
If overhydration happens very quickly, the patient will show mental confusion, convulsions and coma.

Diagnosis

In overhydration, excess fluid is found both inside and around the cells and usually cause no signs of fluid collection.
In excess blood volume, the body has too much sodium, so that no water can move into a spare in the cell.

In excess blood volume (such as heart failure and cirrhosis of the liver), fluid collects around the cells in the chest, abdomen and lower leg.
Distinguishing overhidrasi and excessive blood volume is often difficult, because overhydration can occur alone or in conjunction with excess blood volume.

TREATMENT

Overhydration treatment depends on the cause.
But basically, without seeing any cause, fluid intake should be limited.

Drink as much as less than 1 L fluid / day will usually improve within a few days overhidrasi.
Restricted fluid intake should be under supervision and on the advice of a doctor.

Sometimes given diuretics to increase fluid removal by the kidneys.
Usually a diuretic is more effective in dealing with excess blood volume, so the most effective when given to patients who overhydration accompanied with excess blood volume.