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What is A patient with diarrhea due to cholera has weak thready pulse, clammy skin, hypotension and CNS symptoms. This occurs when the fluid loss is_____ % of body weight? and explain in detail?
Ans. d (>10). (Ref. Harrison, Internal Medicine, 16th ed., 911) Cholera & diarrheaFluid loss13-5% of body weightThirst develops25-8% of body weightPostural hypotension, weakness, tachycardia, decreasing skin turgor.3>10% of body weightOliguria, weak or absent pulses, sunken eyes, wrinkled skin, CNS symptoms (somnolence & coma) are characteristic.