It's commonly known that gait irregularities are associated
with hyponatremia.
Hospitalized patients
with hyponatremia have a significantly higher rate of mortality.
The recipe for disaster comes when an athlete has less than adequate health as reflected by hormone imbalance and poor sodium regulation; and then, if the athlete is encouraged to drink large amounts of fluids during an event, overhydration can occur along
with hyponatremia.
Recent studies have shown that elderly people
with hyponatremia (low sodium levels), have more falls and broken hips and a decrease in cognitive abilities.16
Not exact matches
With this comes the risk of
hyponatremia or water intoxication, which can result in seizures.
Severe
hyponatremia has been linked
with cognitive impairment and neurological disturbances, but the association between different levels of serum sodium and cognition in older adults had been uncertain.
Mild
hyponatremia was once thought to be asymptomatic, but recent studies suggest that it may be associated
with higher risks of attention deficits, gait disturbances, falls, cardiovascular events, and even premature death.
A new study has found that lower level of sodium in the blood — known as
hyponatremia — is linked
with declines in cognitive function
with advancing age.
It was possible to detect, both in patients
with MCI (1.5 % and in patients
with dementia (3.5 %, a non-significant difference), abnormal metabolic values, indicating poorly controlled diabetes, renal failure,
hyponatremia, folate or vitamin B12 deficiency and hyperthyroidism, which correction led to clinical improvement.
Severe
hyponatremia was reported in an infant treated
with SPINRAZA requiring salt supplementation for 14 months.
We need to consume salt
with our water if we want to reduce the risk of dehydration, cramps, and
hyponatremia.
When yours are depleted, you may experience cramping (or worse, a dangerous condition called
hyponatremia), neither of which are things you want to deal
with on the course.
The body can sometimes over-react to fluid replacement and trigger a state of sub-clinical dilutional
hyponatremia (
with confusion, headache etc.) while laboratory electrolyte level is normal.
Ben: Not necessarily because you can get
hyponatremia which is often a term that's used synonymously
with water intoxication by simply having low levels of sodium in your blood stream.
But if you're into endurance events, by sweating out sodium and hydrating
with water alone, you could experience heat cramps or
hyponatremia, a low concentration of sodium in the blood that can be fatal in extreme cases.
The increased risk of death is even high in those
with mild
hyponatremia.
The problem of
hyponatremia, usually combined
with water intoxication, is now referred to as exercise associated
hyponatremia — EAH (usually defined by blood levels of sodium less than 135 mmol / liter).
It's quite possible that those who develop water intoxication and
hyponatremia may have reduced levels of health to start
with, making them most vulnerable to water intoxication and EAH.
Since this study, other researchers have studied the issues of hyperhydration and
hyponatremia in detail, along
with its causes, and the misconception that more water is better.
And, water intoxication comes
with another serious, life - threatening condition called
hyponatremia — low blood sodium.
Predictive Factors of
Hyponatremia in Under - Five Severely Malnourished Children
with Pneumonia Admitted to a Large Urban Hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh: A Nested Case - Control Design