if you have no water in your body what would happen.?

Question

For instance, if you were stuck in a desert how would your body break down.

Answer 1

u would be Dehydrated...

Symptoms may include headaches similar to what is experienced during a hangover, a sudden episode of visual snow, decreased blood pressure (hypotension), and dizziness or fainting when standing up due to orthostatic hypotension. Untreated dehydration generally results in delirium, unconsciousness, and in extreme cases death.

Dehydration symptoms generally become noticeable after 2% of one's normal water volume has been lost. Initially, one experiences thirst and discomfort, possibly along with loss of appetite and dry skin. Athletes may suffer a loss of performance of up to 50%, [citation needed]and experience flushing, low endurance, rapid heart rates, elevated body temperatures, and rapid onset of fatigue.

Symptoms of mild dehydration include thirst, decreased urine volume, urine that is darker than usual, unexplained tiredness, lack of tears when crying, headache, dry mouth, and dizziness when standing due to orthostatic hypotension.

In moderate to severe dehydration, there may be no urine output at all. Other symptoms in these states include lethargy or extreme sleepiness, seizures, sunken fontanel (soft spot) in infants, fainting, and sunken eyes.

The symptoms become increasingly severe with greater water loss. One's heart and respiration rates begin to increase to compensate for decreased plasma volume and blood pressure, while body temperature may rise because of decreased sweating. Around 5% to 6% water loss, one may become groggy or sleepy, experience headaches or nausea, and may feel tingling in one's limbs (paresthesia). With 10% to 15% fluid loss, muscles may become spastic, skin may shrivel and wrinkle, vision may dim, urination will be greatly reduced and may become painful, and delirium may begin. Losses greater than 15% are usually fatal.

Answer 2

I found this regarding water, your body and working out. But, I believe it is relevant to the scenario you are asking about:


Water is an important nutrient for athletes. Water makes up 60 percent of your total body weight and 70 percent of your muscles. Without enough water, you can't work at your top level of performance and you may even harm yourself. Water cools your body. As you exercise, your body temperature increased (even when it's cold outside). As your temperature increases, you sweat. When the sweat evaporates from your skin, your body cools down.

What Happens Without Water?

Dehydration. If you start exercising without having enough water in your body, or if you sweat during practice and do not replace the water lost, you may become dehydrated. You can become
dehydrated even when you lose just a few pounds as sweat. Once you become dehydrated, you can no longer sweat and get rid of the heat that builds up in your body. Dehydration can be dangerous. The first symptoms of dehydration include thirst, chills, clammy skin, throbbing heartbeat, and nausea. When you
become more dehydrated, you may develop a headache, cramps, and shortness of breath, dizziness, and/or dryness in the mouth. At the most serious level of dehydration, you can experience hallucinations, deafness, visual problems, swollen tongue, and/or kidney failure.

Answer 3

Most reactions in the body are dependent on molecules being at a certain concentration, and the overall osmolarity (basically a measurement of ALL dissolved particles) of blood plasma (extracellular fluid more importantly) being at certain levels.

In order for cells to function, ion concentrations need to be kept at a certain level inside the cell and in the ECF that surrounds the cells. For example, sodium, potassium, and calcium are the ions that we think of most in this regard. If someone didn't have enough water, sodium and potassium concentrations outside of the cell would go up (we call this hypernatremia and hyperkalemia respectively). This would draw water out of your cells and they would lyse.

The opposite condition can exist. People can die from TOO MUCH WATER in their bodies! Look it up, its called "water poisoning". A fraternity student died of water poisoning last year I believe after he was forced to drink 10 gallons of water in a few minutes. This means that sodium and potassium concentrations were TOO LOW in his plasma and ECF. These conditions we call hyponatremia and hypokalemia respectively.

Answer 4

Have you ever seen what happens to a slug when you pour salt on them? Just think of it as the same thing only filled with a few bones and very dry tissues. Death certainly, kinda like beef jerky.

Answer 5

cause your body is made up chiefly by organic substances which contain Carbon, H2O mostly. So without water => carbon( it explain why you burn yourself, you vaporize the water in you => carbon=> ashes).

Answer 6

Well you are about 90% water, so you do the math. You would die when you lost enough fluid your circulation/blood gels.

Answer 7

You would be mummified.

picture beef jerky

Answer 8

extreme thrist
hallutinations
coma
death