Signs of dehydration worth acting on posts 31–39
This is a continuation of a long topic, addressed by post number rather than by page. Start at post 1 · go to the accepted answer.
Signs of dehydration after repeated vomiting are the most common serious secondary problem described here and are also the most preventable.
The reason signs of dehydration worth acting is hard to answer is that the obvious measurement and the relevant quantity are not the same thing, and substituting one for the other is silent.
Everything in post #32 holds. The case it does not cover is the one I have.
Two sentences on signs of dehydration worth acting and then I will stop, because the rest is speculation and the thread is better without mine.
What is documented is narrow. What is inferred from it is broad. The gap between them is where every argument here lives.
Post #34 is the version of this I will quote in future. One addition.
Attribution is genuinely hard for a single case and the reporting schemes are designed to work with that. You are not expected to prove causation to file.
I keep a log of this specifically because memory is unreliable about it.
Where I part company with post #32, and it is a narrow parting.
Adding what did not work for me on signs of dehydration worth acting, since the failures never get written up and they are half the useful information.
Severe gastrointestinal events: persistent vomiting, abdominal pain out of proportion, or signs of bowel obstruction warrant urgent evaluation. Mild nausea and constipation are ordinary; severe versions are not.
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My understanding of signs of dehydration worth acting is a few years old and may have been superseded. If it has been, I would genuinely like to know rather than keep repeating it.
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Filing a mild objection to the consensus on signs of dehydration worth acting. Mild because I might be wrong; an objection because nobody has addressed the case that does not fit.
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