Hail! all Hail! to the Caesars of the CS art, It has been said that the skin is our first line of defense, almost true, the symbiotic bacteria on the skin are our first line of defense. These bacteria are kept moist by the insensible sweat and nurtured by the nutrients in the sweat. Different areas of the skin have various strains of bacteria populating it. These bacteria destroy foreign and dangerous bacteria landing on the skin. The toxic waste of our friendly skin bacteria has been synthesized and used as antibiotics for many years now, some of the antibiotics developed from analysis of the skin bacteria toxins are streptomycin, aureomycin, terramycin and neoycin. Care should be taken during body hygiene to preserve the integrity of the bacterial colonies on the skin. A healthy individual will not smell from the normal sweat and bacteria on the skin. Smell is caused by improper hygiene permitting the destruction of our normal bacterial colonies. Using excess oil removing soaps and harsh cleansers destroys the insensible water/oil layer and bacteria. Rubbing the skin until it is pink (sign of a raw wound) is very bad. Loss of the layer of dead protective skin cells is not good hygiene. Normally hot water is all that is needed to remove dirt from the surface of the body, without damaging the water/oil layer or bacterial colonies. The daily requirement for water under usual environmental conditions results in a daily obligatory loss of approximately 1,500 ml of water by normal human adults. Of this, about 600 ml is lost through the skin as insensible perspiration, 400 ml in the expired air, and 500 ml in the urine. Thats about half of your water loss via the sweat glands, which can produce copious amounts of water on demand of the bodies homeostasis systems. Any excess intake of water over this obligatory total volume appears as an increased urine volume. When the intake is less than this obligatory 1,500 ml, the difference must be at the expense of the total body water. Since the oxidation of glucose and lipid, in an amount sufficient to yield 2000 Cal/day, results in formation of about 300 ml of water, there remains an obligatory water intake of the order of 1,200 ml/day. This 1,200 ml can be composed of drinking water or water in the foods you eat, but it must come from somewhere or you will become dehydrated. The average person goes around in a dehydrated state and wonder why they can not function well or think straight. The secret is to drink lots of water, don't worry if its to much, the body will get rid of the excess it does not need via the sweat and urine. Now, 500 ml is about two cups of water, so you need to drink on average about 5 cups of water a day. Thats all, just five cups of water a day, where ever they came up with this six glasses a day thing I don't know. A glass is not a recognized unit of measure, you do not use a glass of milk and a glass of onions ,or a half glass of flour when measuring, the glass is not a unit of measure. Its really easy to drink five cups of water a day, a shake is four cups and coffee will be many cups a day and then we drink milk and also put milk on the cereal, and then have some chocolate milk and maybe a soda pop, and some plain old water when coming in from the garden, so drinking five cups of water is really easy. In contrast to the water requirement, there is no equivalent obligatory loss of Na+ or Cl- (salt) under normal conditions. Adults on a diet devoid of Na+ and Cl- lose these ions in the urine for only a few days, after which the urine becomes virtually salt free, all other circumstances remaining constant. The body is now reabsorbing all Na+ and Cl- ions and conserving them. During periods of high sweating more salt must be taken in. The average diet provides 100 to 200 meq of Na+ and Cl- (salt) per day, all of which, except for small amounts in sweat and feces, is excreted in the urine. In the absence of dietary K+, urinary excretion of approximately 40 to 60 meq of K+ per day occurs for a few days, after which urine losses diminish to about 10 meq a day. Several events can occur that will cause the hormones to swing into action with the sweat glands. These are disturbances in the bodies osmotic pressure, volume of body blood, blood pressure, volume of extracellular fluids and alterations in the composition of the electrolyte (ionic) and water balance. If you are sitting at a meal and begin to sweat as you eat, you have a serious problem and should see a physician right away. This is a sure sign of a cardiac problem relating to blood pressure and blood volume control, left untreated it will lead to death. Observing your sweat will give us many clues as to the proper or improper functioning of the body. Keep in mind that the hormone aldosterone is a principal hormone in regulating homeostasis and it also regulates the sweat glands. So when aldosterone is running, the sweat glands alert you that your body is struggling to correct imbalances somewhere in it. Occasionally, under heat stress, the temperature regulating ability of the body fails and the function of the temperature regulating center breaks down. In such a case, the body temperature may rise rapidly, accompanied by a dry skin and the absence of sweating. This condition is called "heat stroke". Another condition that may be observed in heat-exposed individuals is "heat exhaustion". In this condition , the temperature regulating mechanisms are functional, but as the result of extreme sweating (fluid loss) and vasodilation to lose heat, the individual may collapse and display low blood pressure (hypotention) and a cool , clammy skin with little rise in body temperature. Heat stroke in general is a much more serious condition than heat exhaustion, however, both require immediate health care. Now, high blood pressure is connected with sweat disorders. The high blood pressure (hypertension) is a common disease of the cardiovascular system. The elevated pressure is sometimes related to arteriosclerosis or kidney disease, which is also connected with the elasticity of the arterial walls and narrowing of the lumens of these vessels. When the blood flow to the kidneys is altered an enzyme called renin is released which in turn causes angiotensin (a plasma protein) to be produced, which in its turn triggers the adrenal cortex to release more of the hormone aldosterone. Which of course gets the sweat glands involved in the cardiac problem. Yes, the sweat glands are a good indicator of how the health of the body is doing. Take good care of your sweat glands and they will take care of you. Happy sweating, when needed.
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