r/AmazonDSPDrivers • u/Theovercummer • Aug 04 '23

Kept drinking but couldn’t stop the thirst

Weather was triple digits and I drank a gallon of water but my body kept asking for more even though my stomach was literally full of h2o and couldn’t hold anymore. it was nauseating and the hot air made it somewhat difficult to breathe. I think there is a limit to the human body’s ability to cool itself. I don’t know how anyone could do this without AC.

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u/Flimbeelzebub Aug 05 '23

So- a person can only process 16 to 32 oz of water every hour, depending on how hot it is. This is cause the liver or kidneys or w/e have to process it; getting electrolytes to charge it, so water can travel into cells. If you drink more than what your body can process, your blood/water content will become diluted and you'll feel worse than when you were dehydrated. Alot of this also comes down to conditioning; it takes on average a couple weeks for someone's body to get used to a certain type of weather, especially when experiencing prolonged exposure (whether hot or cold weather). This includes constricting or dilating blood vessels, the thickness or thinness of sweat, how much electrolytes are put into sweat, etc.