5 Weird Symptoms of Dehydration

Everyone knows the feeling: you forget to drink water for hours on end and start to feel strange. Your throat might feel dry and scratchy; maybe your muscles start to feel tight muscles. But inside the body, even more is happening: cells start to shrink as water leaves them, and the kidneys start to conserve water, which makes urine become darker.

It’s an easy problem to fix by drinking more water. Yet so many of us don’t do this basic act of self-care; 24% of older adults in the U.S.