Timeline for Term for "Death by Lack of Water"
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| Aug 20, 2015 at 18:07 | comment | added | Mazura | Plus one. This is why you die from dehydration. | |
| Jun 1, 2014 at 4:27 | comment | added | Ben Voigt | @MikePennington: You are arguing sensitivity (hypernatremia includes all cases of dehydration) while Jon is arguing specificity (hypernatremia does not imply dehydration). And Jon is correct, the word hypernatremia does not convey lack of water, so it is not an answer to this question. | |
| Aug 29, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Mike | I have to clarify that dehydration and hypernatremia are not the same thing, though absolutely can occur together. Some cases of dehydration result in severe hyponatremia which can also be fatal, such as severe gastroenteritis, I.e. dehydration. My apologies for being contrary. I agree electrolyte abnormalities are a cause of death in dehydration. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 14:48 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | @JonHanna, we already covered that ground and we disagree on the criteria for the answer. The question is finished... may I suggest we agree to disagree | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 14:11 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | And you gave him a word that means severe electrolyte imbalance, which can have nothing to do with a lack of water. In what way does that offer an answer? | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 13:40 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | @Jonhanna, you're knocking down a strawman. The OP did not ask for a term for dehydration; he asked for a term for "death by lack of water" | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 11:26 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | You also can't say that you don't die from dehydration; if dehydration causes terminal hypernatremia, then it's both true that you died of hypernatremia and true that you died of dehyrdration. It's also true that you died of whatever caused the dehydration (e.g. thirst). If the dehydration was caused by diarrhoea, caused by cholera, caused by food-poisoning, then hypernatremia, dehydration, diarrhoea, cholera & food poisoning are all things it could be accurately said killed you. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 11:25 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | Yes, they're totally hydrated, and they die of hypernatremia. You can't say that the proper term for dehydration is hypernatremia, if you can die from hypernatremia and not be the least bit dehydrated. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 11:17 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | @JonHanna, this is a red herring; By your own admission, the subject is "then hydrated". My point very simply is that you dont die "from dehydration", rather severe dehydration causes a fatal mineral imbalance known as Hypernatremia. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 10:39 | comment | added | Jon Hanna | No, his comment makes sense because it's easily demonstrable that you can die from hypernatremia without dehydration though hypervolemic hypernatremia is rarer. Ironically, one way it happens when in a desperate attempt to avoid terminal dehydration, people drink lots of sea-water. They are then hydrated, but hypernatremic, which increases the feeling of thirst leading them to drink more (they've already got to the point of desperation where the salt taste isn't putting them off) go into a coma and die from it, or from drowning (considering the scenarios where this comes up). | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 3:29 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | Your comment makes sense as long as you can demonstrate that it's possible to die from dehydration without suffering from terminal Hypernatremia. Can you provide the evidence? | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:56 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Exactly - OP asked for a word meaning "death caused by lack of water", not "death caused by excess concentration of sodium". Like if he'd asked for "death caused by lack of air", the answer would be suffocation, not asphyxiation (which could include breathing pure nitrogen, or [some] carbon monoxide, etc.). | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:45 | comment | added | Mike Pennington | dehydration causes a higher concentration of sodium; left untreated it results in death | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:43 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | I think your edit makes clear what I already suspected - hypernatraemia derives from Latin natrium, sodium. So it doesn't actually mean "dehydration" anyway - that's just one of the most likely causes of the condition. | |
| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:40 | history | edited | Mike Pennington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 10, 2012 at 2:15 | history | answered | Mike Pennington | CC BY-SA 3.0 |