LACY’S

DRY RUN
Ark, Fah, Lukmai
Name: Lacy
Age: 15
Description: A track and field star
athlete
Symptoms: Pale and dry skins; PATIENT
Sunken eyeballs; Dizzy and Weak MEDICAL
HISTORY
● Up late on the night before
the meet
● Did not come down for
breakfast on time
● Breakfast includes hash BEFORE THE
browns and 2 cups of coffee TRACK MEET
● Drank four energy drinks
● Use toilets many times and voided more urine
than usual.
● Ate two bags of doritos between events(1 bag
between events and the other is for lunch) DURING
● 3 pm: Dizzy and Tired MORNING
Had pale and dry skin
EVENTS
●
● Coach suspect that patient was dehydrated
● Coach decides for patient to get

●
assessment at hospital.
Parent suggests lacy to drink sports
BEFORE THE
drink HOSPITAL
● Ambulance arrives before they could ASSESSMENT
come to a decision
 Unusually warm Sunday
OBSERVATION OF
●
● Temp: 98 degrees fahrenheit
● Dry, hot westerly winds blowing WEATHER AT
● Low humidity TRACK MEET
 Patient is experiencing severe dehydration due to
the patient not drinking enough water during the track
meet. Due to the hot weather, the patient sweats more
PROGNOSIS
and the sweat evaporates much faster. The water balance
within the patient’s body is no longer balance.
● Patient have track meet and will CAUSES TO WHY
●
exercise a lot.
Fluids lost due to the exercise.
PATIENT MIGHT BE
● Hot weather makes Patient sweat harder. EXPERIENCING
● Sweat will evaporate faster DEHYDRATION
● Patient’s water balance is lost
 ● Two cups of coffee in the morning
● Hashbrowns for breakfast
● Four bottles of 250mL sports drink
● 2 Bags of Doritos(1 between events; 1 for Lunch)

PATIENT’S
INTAKE
● Patient drank a lot of
caffeinated drinks
● Caffeine blocks sodium
reabsorption

REABSORPTION
OF SODIUM
 CAFFEINE
vs
● Patient consumes a lot of caffeinated drinks WATER
● Caffeine prevents sodium reabsorption
○ Patient will have low blood pressure and loss
of muscle bond
● Sodium causes Patient to urinate more frequently
● Patient loses more water inside her body.
● Patient’s plasma osmolality increases
● Sodium increases excretion
○ More water is excreted
WATER BALANCE
● Patients dark yellow urine is because of osmoreceptors
● Body’s initial response to dehydration is thirst.
BODY’S REACTION
TO DEHYDRATION
HOW ARE BODY
TAKE ACTION WHEN
THERE IS
INSUFFICIENT H2O
● Patient’s body will decrease urine
output
● Urine will become more concentrated
BODY’S REACTION
and more yellow in color. TO DEHYDRATION
● Patient feels dizzy and tired due to
the increasing loss of water.
● Patient’s blood pressure decrease due to
her receiving too much sodium ion. PATIENT’S
● Decrease blood pressure means that her
BLOOD
thirst will increase
○ Blood osmolarity will decrease PRESSURE
Symptoms of Dehydration

● Thirsty
●
●
Dark yellow and strong-smelling urine
Dizzy and Tired
WHY PATIENT IS
● Dry mouth, lips, and eyes EXPERIENCING
DEHYDRATION
LACY’S SYMPTOMS

● Pale skin
●
●
Sunken Eyes
Dizzy and Weak
PATIENT SYMPTOMS

PATIENT’S SYMPTOMS MATCHES WITH SYMPTOMS OF DEHYDRATION

● Sport drinks contain sodium
○ Drinking sport drinks will make you thirstier

SPORT DRINKS
vs
WATER
● Sports drink may replenish what the
body lost during exercise
● Water is still the BEST CHOICE!!!
BEST CHOICE!!!
Water Sport drinks

Quickly Contains
●
hydrate body
●
electrolyte and DIFFERENCE
● Easily carbohydrates BETWEEN SPORT
absorbed Replenish
DRINKS AND WATER
●
things that
body need
during exercise
THANK YOU