Question | Answer |
What is water balance? | The balance between water intake and output. |
What is Intracellular fluid? | Fluid within the cells, usually high in potassium and phosphate.Accounts for 2/3s of the body's water. |
What is Interstitial fluid? | Fluid between the cells, usually high in Na and chloride. A large component of extracellular fluid. |
What is Extracellular fluid? | Fluid outside the cells. Includes two main components - the interstitial fluid and plasma. Accounts for Approx. 1/3 of the body's water. |
What is thirst? | A conscious desire to drink. |
what is dehydration? | the condition in which body water output exceeds water input. Symptoms include thirst, dry skin, and mucous membranes, rapid heartbeat, low blood pressure, and weakness. |
What is water intoxication? | the rare condition in which body water contents are too high in all body fluid compartments. |
What are the symptoms of 1-2% body weight loss? | Thirst, fatigue, weakness, vague discomfort, loss of appetite. |
What are the symptoms of 3-4% body weight loss? | Impaired physical performance, dry mouth, reduction in urine, flushed skin, impatience, apathy. |
What are the symptoms of 5-6% body weight loss? | Difficulty concentrating headache, irritability, sleepiness, impaired temperature regulation, increased respiratory rate. |
What are the symptoms of 7-10% body weight loss? | Dizziness, spastic muscles, loss of balance, delirium, exhaustion, collapse. |
What are protein electrons involved in? | Water placement. |
RDA for water? | 1450-2800 milliliters
1-1.5 mil./ kcal expended for adults (approx. 2-3 liters for a 2000 kcal expenditure.
M 3.7L/day
F 2.7L/day |
What is the percentage of water weight in an average young adult? | 60-65% |
Where will you find most of the body's water? | Intracellular
Intravascular
Interstitial
Extracellular |
What is Hard water? | Water with high Ca and Mg content. Leaves a residue. Benefits hypertension and heart disease. |
What is Soft water? | Water with high Na or K content. Aggravates hypertension and heart disease. |
What is Artesian water? | water drawn for a well that taps a confined aquifer in which the water in under pressure. |
What is bottled water? | drinking water sold in bottles. |
What is Carbonated water? | water that contains carbon dioxide gas, either naturally occurring or added, that causes bubbles to form in it. |
What is Distilled water? | water that has been vaporized and recondensed, leaving it free of dissolved minerals. |
What is filtered water? | water treated by filtration, usually through activated carbon filters that reduce the lead in tap water, or by reverse osmosis units that force pressured water across a membrane removing leading, arsenic, and some microogranisms for tap water. |
What is mineral water? | water from a spring or well that typically contains 250 to 500 parts per million of minerals. Minerals give water a distinctive flavor. Many are high in sodium. |