Can you drink a lot of water? Be careful about drinking too much water!

Modern people know some health-preserving concepts, especially water, which is indispensable in daily life. Water is the source of life. From a health perspective, people should maintain their water intake even if they do not feel thirsty. However, if a person can drink a lot of water, he should be careful about the sequelae of excessive drinking.

"Eight glasses of water a day can damage the kidneys and cause kidney deficiency"

I don't know when the so-called health concept emerged, eight glasses of water a day, drinking more water can detoxify and flush the large intestine. In fact, drinking water like this is very harmful to the kidneys, and in severe cases it can cause kidney deficiency and inability to hold urine.

Drink water in small sips, three sips or less, leaving room for digestion and absorption. Modern people only want to be fast, and drink water quickly, which results in a large amount of cold water in the stomach, which is either urinated out or stored, and cannot become body fluids.

Drinking water principle: want to drink and can drink

Analysis:

The amount of water you drink varies from person to person, and you can't just follow the "eight glasses of water a day" rule.

Healthy people just need to know whether they are thirsty or not, and whether they will not feel bloated or uncomfortable after drinking water. If you are thirsty and want to drink water, and you can drink it, then feel free to drink it.

People with poor stomach, kidney, heart and liver function should drink more water than they take in, depending on how much they sweat and urinate. Drinking too much water can cause edema or even water poisoning. For people with poor kidney function, edema and those who are undergoing edema treatment, the amount of water they take out should be greater than the amount of water they take in.

People with urinary tract infections should develop the habit of drinking plenty of water to give full play to the "flushing" effect of water on the urethra and avoid bacterial growth. Patients with kidney stones drink more water than ordinary people. The purpose is to speed up the excretion of urine and excrete the calcium and debris precipitated and accumulated in the kidneys to prevent the formation of stones.

In life, some people are prone to thirst and love to drink water, while some people are not prone to thirst and feel bloated and want to vomit if they force themselves to drink water. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, the latter belongs to spleen and kidney deficiency. Such people usually have physical characteristics such as bloating, fear of cold, dampness, diarrhea, etc. At this time, they do not need to force themselves to drink water, lest the spleen and stomach deficiency cannot transport and transform, turning into dampness, dryness, and phlegm.

"Modern people only want to be fast, and they drink water like a guzzler, which results in a large amount of cold water in the stomach, which is either urinated out or stored, and cannot become body fluid." This statement is incorrect. After drinking water into the stomach and intestines, it will be absorbed into the blood and filtered by the kidneys to form urine. It is not "taken in and excreted out".

“Drink water in small sips, no more than three sips, leaving room for digestion and absorption” This is worth promoting, and drinking water in small sips is more conducive to the body's absorption.