What happens to body during diarrhea? Especially the water part? Normaly, the water we drink is absorbed in the body and most part of thrown removing toxic elements via urine. But, during diarrhea body losses lot of water and we become dehydrated and weak. Suppose due to some process let’s say like Osmosis the water travels thru membrane and finally transforms into another substance, blood. So, during dehydration, does this process reverse? Why do we feel weakness? Also, when body knows it’s getting weak why it is still dehydration without absorbing any water? Someone please explain whole process.
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Your intestine is a semi-permeable layer that allows water to flow through. Your body creates as osmotic imbalance that makes it so you constantly suck up water from your poop as it travels through you. This is to conserve as much water as possible because you had to add water (and proton pumps make it acidic) in your stomach in order to digest your food. Also it’s the main way you add water to the system.
When you have an inflammatory response, your body creates an osmotic imbalance on the other side that sucks water from your body into your intestine to “flush it out”. This is like the water in the tank of your toilet being used to wash your poop down. That response can happen for a number of reasons, but it’s often because of the cells in your gut detecting toxins or your immune system fighting a pathogen.
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