Dangers of Dehydration Treatment in Heart Disease

Poll, Daniel; Stern, J

doi:10.1016/s0025-7125(16)37124-3

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“…The unfortunate effects of dehydration occur mainly when salt and water are lost from the body in excessive amounts and it has been shown that in the diuresis due to salyrgan and its allies an enormous excretion of sodium chloride and water results. The syndrome described by American authors (Poll & Stern 1937) is characterised by a preliminary restlessness associated with great prostration. There are in addition extreme thirst, a dry tongue and sunken shrivelled features likened by these authors to the terminal condition seen in the algid form of cholera.…”

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confidence: 99%