No one is a secret: a person is 80% of water. Much in our body depends on the water, for example, the quality and structure of the skin, strong teeth, metabolism, growth rate and nail thickness - the human health is literally on the water and its consumption. An interesting fact, but without food a person can live several times longer than without water. Scientists conducted a number of research and experiments, also history has curious cases that confirm their words. By the way, the water is needed not only to drink, but also allocate. In this article, you will learn records for survival without water, possible consequences, as well as the causes of such a strong sensitivity of the person to water.
How long people lived without water
The story knows the striking cases in which people survived in extreme situations after man-made disasters or injuries, not receiving a drop of water for all these days. Of course, their overall health, climate, mental condition, and a number of other important reasons affect this, and such cases can be called a miracle.
- One little boy in Mexico's capital Mexico lived without water 13 days. For almost two weeks, a nine-year-old schoolboy lay under the wreckage of buildings after the earthquake, while he did not find a group of rescuers. All this time he remained in consciousness and survived.
- Another astounding case happened to the resident of Frunze. It was in 1947, then a fifty-year-old man was injured by the head and could not move independently. He spent 20 days without food, water and other amenities. When he was finally found, a man did not have a pulse, almost absent breathing. However, the next day he had already entertained and returned his ability to speak.
To date, the exceptional record is this twenty-day break in the use of water. Of course, on the Internet and newspapers you can find many stories about more prolonged records, but none of them have been confirmed and documented.
How many people can live without water - the opinion of experts
A number of physiological physiologists conducted tests and came to a certain conclusion how many people could live without drinking water:
- The average healthy person can live ten days at rest if the air temperature does not go beyond 16-23 degrees Celsius.
- If the temperature rises to 26 degrees, the term of survival immediately falls to nine days.
- Just a week you can live without water at a temperature of 29 degrees.
- Already at 36 degrees Celsius, a person will not be able to live longer than three days at rest.
Please note that all of the above calculations concern only healthy people who are completely not moving all the time, and are quite exemplary. If you add dry air, adverse climate and stress to these criteria, the survival rate is much reduced.
What happens when a person does not drink water for a long time
They suffer from all the processes of your body, besides this, after a few days a person begins to die, just slowly and strong enough.
At first, a person can begin to suffer and deny the kidneys, a strong dry cough will begin, the moisture will not remain on the formation of saliva, as well as on the washing of the eyes, the tear. The skin and especially lips are cracking to the blood, and the protective functions of your immunity will strongly weaken, because of which even a minor infection will be fatal. After that, problems with the vegetative system begin: heartbeat, jumps the pressure, becomes complicated. With this situation, the person lives very not long, especially if because of stress spends moisture on tears.
As you can see, water is one of the most important components of our life, which is much more important even food. That is why all over the world, fresh water reserves are so much appreciated and all new desalination systems are invented.
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