Can you get dehydrated from diarrhea?

Diarrhea is also known as diarrhea, and diarrhea can lead to dehydration, depending on the extent of the patient’s diarrhea. Mild diarrhea usually does not lead to dehydration, while moderate or severe diarrhea may lead to dehydration.
1. Mild diarrhea: Mild diarrhea is usually accompanied only by general symptoms, such as mild bloating, diarrhea, nausea, etc., the body’s loss of water and electrolytes are relatively small, so dehydration does not usually occur.
2. Moderate and severe diarrhea: moderate and severe diarrhea patients due to repeated or severe diarrhea, abdominal pain, so that a large number of rapid loss of water and electrolytes in the body, which will appear in the eye sockets, decreased urine, skin elasticity, thirst, and a series of dehydration, the need for oral rehydration salts in a timely manner, transfusion therapy, and so on.
If the diarrhea is serious, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time, improve the examination to clarify the cause of the disease, and then give targeted treatment or treatment under the guidance of the doctor.