When you or a loved one enters a nursing home, many factors in their life change. Environment, lifestyle, and social circles are the major changes, but changes in diet can be just as impactful. For example, this change in diet can result in nutrient deficiencies and dehydration. Between 50% and 90% of nursing home patients are at risk for dehydration alone. But what exactly is dehydration?
Dehydration is not just the water intake by an individual, but rather the amount of water taken into an individual’s cells. To take in water, cells need various vitamins and minerals that you can’t get from water alone. Furthermore, medications and health conditions can exacerbate these issues. Elevated sodium and hemoglobin combined with low potassium can severely hinder a cell’s ability to intake water.
Fortunately, Dript IV Therapy provides both water as well as the vitamins and nutrients required to help your cells take the water in. By providing vitamins B, C, zinc, and many more micronutrients, we can hydrate, heal chronic wounds, prevent infection, and maintain mental cognition for users of Dript. With so much to worry about with dehydration in nursing homes, you can eliminate hydration and nutrient deficiencies with Dript.
Source: DriptIV.com