16 Home Remedies for Dehydration - Dehydration

Remaining hydrated is critical to your overall health. Doing so is also as simple as carrying around a handly bottle of water, or even just eating your fair share of fruits and vegetables. Learn more about dehydration, and the home remedies that will prevent you from drying up.

Getting Flush Again

Every cell in your body needs water in order to function properly. In fact, an adult's body weight is 60 percent water, while an infant's is up to 80 percent water. Other than oxygen, there's nothing that your body needs more than water. Water is so important because it has many critical functions in the body. Among other activities, water:

Lubricates your joints and connective tissues.

Helps digest food.
Liquefies mucus when you've got a cold. (This makes it easy to blow and cough it out.)

Eliminates body heat through sweat.

Carries oxygen, carbohydrates, and fats to working muscles, then carries away wastes such as carbon dioxide and lactic acid.

Flushes wastes from the body through urine.

Boosts endurance during prolonged exercise.

Dilutes and disperses medications and vitamins so they won't give you a bellyache.

Fights flight fatigue, often caused by dehydration from the dry air on the plane.

Wards off bladder infections by washing out harmful bacteria.

Helps curb your appetite.

Plumps up wrinkles. (We have water in and around every cell in our bodies, and when water around those cells decreases, wrinkles happen.)

Quenches thirst. (Thirst is our body's mechanism to alert us to insufficient fluids. If you're thirsty, it's time to restock.)