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- Oh, cheers!
- I'm Bob Schrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
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- Brad, most people don't drink enough water
and we're gonna show you one simple test to tell.
We're actually gonna show you two tests.
- One's kind of more...
precise.
- Yes, scientific.
- Give it a shot so.
- Sure.
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- What does this have to do with the water?
- This has nothing to do with water.
- Okay well let's carry on.
- All right so, one simple test you can do.
All you're gonna do is chug some water.
- Chug.
(chuckles)
- Chug, chug, chug, chug.
- If it's scientifically then you're gonna consume it.
- Yeah, that's right.
And if you pee most of it out soon after your body
is saying you're already topped off,
you're topping your body off already.
- Yeah so either urinate and then your
(chuckles)
- Yeah it means your body didn't need it.
- Right.
- So if your body keeps it, this is a sign
your tank was running low.
You like the words I'm using there?
- Yeah, this is good stuff.
- Okay we'll do a bit more scientific one.
Okay a formal test, you empty your bladder.
- Sure.
- You go to the bathroom.
- Yep.
- You chug three glasses of water.
You've got a little one that you can actually measure here.
- Right, so you're supposed to drink it fast is that it?
- Pretty fast, yes.
- Okay.
- And then measure how much you pee within the next hour.
If you pee or urinate less than one cup it's likely
that you were dehydrated.
I mean that's, that means your body took in two cups
and you were down.
- Okay.
- So, that's it, that's how simple it is.
- So how much should you put in?
- Three cups.
- Oh three cups, yeah.
So if one third comes out you've been dehydrated.
- Right.
- So if you should pee all of it out?
- Then you're in good shape.
Within an hour.
- Yeah.
- All right.
- That means you're right on.
A lot of people are dehydrated, I mean you and I run
into this a lot because we work with the elderly a lot
- Right, right.
- And we see this all the time, they're going in
all the time for dehydration, being hospitalized for it.
- Right.
- So, some signs of dehydration would be just the fact
that you're thirsty and a lot of times they say by the time
if you are thirsty it's already, you're already dehydrated.
- Right, and especially if you're exercising and thirsty
and you drink water and you're exercising aerobically
or aggressively you won't catch up.
- Right.
- It's too late, you need to get that water in ahead of time
and keep with it that's why that water bottle
for longer distance things are
- That's right.
- Really important.
- If your mouth is dry or sticky, not surprising there.
- Sure.
- If you're not peeing much or if when you do pee
your urine is dark and yellow.
- Right.
- We've definitely seen this.
- Right.
- Like in someone who's worked out a lot.
- It has an odor.
- Right, it has an odor, yup.
Dry cool skin, if you have muscle cramps, headaches.
- Sure.
- I haven't ever had any of that but what I recommend
to people even when they get muscle cramps at night
that that's the first thing they should check
is are they drinking enough water.
- Right, yep water and sodium.
- Severe hydration, so now you're not peeing or having
very dark yellow pee, very dry skin, you're feeling dizzy,
rapid heartbeat, sunken eyes, I used to see this in some
wrestlers, you were a wrestler and I don't know why
but they had the sunken eyes.
- Because they haven't been eating for the last week.
- Probably, that's probably what it was.
- It's true.
- It was.
- They don't eat, they don't drink because they're
trying to get their weight down you know,
it just seemed pretty common.
- That is not healthy.
Yeah, rapid breathing.
This is what we see a lot, confusion and irritability,
that's what I see in residents a lot, in patients a lot.
- Sure, right.
- That's the first thing I'll check in fact
when they start acting confused.
Do they have a urinary tract infection
or are they dehydrated?
- Right, and when you get that bad you're not going to,
usually you need an IV I believe to get that back.
- Yeah that's getting bad.
- My brother works in ER, he's been there I don't know,
probably fifteen years and he says everyone, particularly
the elderly that come in, they're always dehydrated.
- Yeah and that's a good point, that shows you how common
it is and how hard it is to stay ahead of it.
- I mean that may not be the only cause but that's
always one of the symptoms is they're dehydrated.
- It's making me thirsty talking about this.
- Yeah I know I was thinking about that too.
- So of all the recommendations, and these are kind of
all over the board and one of the reasons they're
all over the board is because you get some water from food
too so it depends on what kind of food you're eating.
- Right.
- And how much you work out and what kind of climate
you're in, if you live in a hot climate
you're gonna sweat more.
So just as a general recommendation, four to seven cups
a day for women and six to eleven for men.
- Depends on body weight I'm assuming?
- See that's another factor, and also be careful if you have
heart or kidney failure you're going to want to talk
to your doctor because you might have fluid restrictions.
- Sure.
- But you all do the simple test and you can see if
you're being dehydrated.
- Right, exactly.
- Stay ahead of it because it's not good for your body.
- Right, it's one of those basic things in life,
that stay up with it and everything else
is gonna be much better.
- I'm gonna drink some more water.
Remember Brad I can fix this.
- Oh yeah, I was gonna say we got to do one on
what you drink, like drinking out of the plastic.
- I know.
- We were just discussing that.
- I know we were just saying I got to get away from this
because this is not as healthy as regular tap water,
I did read that.
- Right, assuming you've got good tap water.
Have it tested.
Well one way or another now we can
- I'll move away from this, but yeah we can fix
just about anything
- Except for
- A broken heart
- There you go.
- Thanks for watching.
- Cheers.