Medically reviewed by Mary Josephine Hessert, DO Hypovolemia is a life-threatening complication that occurs when the loss of ...

Electrolytes aren't just important for fluid balance during exercise. These key essential minerals play a role in a wide ...

You might gain water weight if there's a build-up of water in your body. Edema is the swelling—commonly in your ankles, feet, and legs—that results from excess fluid. Too much water weight may ...

And in a little over a year, your cotton clothes disintegrate, as acidic body fluids and toxins break them down. Only the nylon seams and waistband survive. At this point, nothing dramatic happens ...

Blood spills or other human body fluids that occur inside or in the outside environment need to be decontaminated to prevent the potential transmission of communicable disease. The circumstances ...

Huh. Anyway, the body produces a lot of awesome fluid. And sometimes it's gross, but it's always for a very good reason. So let's check it out. Check out this guy's forehead, where sweat will ...

It just so happens that the New York State Department of Health has a Biomonitoring NY program. New York is one of six states ...