I read articles on acute dehydration and found the symptoms a little confusing. The real symptoms of acute dehydration according to my experience are:
- You would want to kill yourself when you walk in the sun, so keep away from sharp objects.
- No amount of water will quench your thirst.
- You wont be able to pronounce words like "czechoslovakia" and "catastrophe" because of your insanely dry tongue.
- Mirage!! yes that will happen a lot. I hallucinated about "Water Kingdom" every few kilometers.
- Do not be shocked if you start looking red like a tomato, it gets worse later.You'll start having chills out of nowhwere, chills in the hot hellhole.
- Your body becomes a fullgrown funny bone, tingling of the limbs starts.
- You won't recognize your friends and family after a point of time and your answer to everything would be "huh??".
- You'll puke your guts out.
- head rush and Collapse!!
So, always keep yourself hydrated enough if you are to travel in such adverse conditions and please rush to the nearest hospital if you make it till symptom no. 6, even if you don't you'll anyways end up there. Take it from me, Needles become your best friend and they make you eat boiled rice and drink salt water for five days, that is even worse than being jailed. Take care, don't die !!:)
