how do water tablets work ?

Answer 1

I haven't figured out how they squish water into a tablet!!???






sorry, couldn't help myself.

Answer 2

A diuretic, a water tablet, is any drug that elevates the rate of bodily urine excretion, diuresis. Diuretics also decrease the extracellular fluid, ECF, volume, and are primarily used to produce a negative extracellular fluid balance. Caffeine, cranberry juice and alcohol are all weak diuretics.

In medicine, diuretics are used to treat heart failure, liver cirrhosis, hypertension and certain kidney diseases. Diuretics alleviate the symptoms of these diseases by causing sodium and water loss through the urine. As urine is produced by the kidney, sodium and water – which cause edema related to the disease – move into the blood to replace the volume lost as urine, thereby reducing the pathological edema. Some diuretics, such as acetazolamide, help to make the urine more alkaline and are helpful in increasing excretion of substances such as aspirin in cases of overdose or poisoning.

The antihypertensive actions of some diuretics, thiazides and loop diuretics in particular, are independent of their diuretic effect. That is, the reduction in blood pressure is not due to decreased blood volume resulting from increased urine production, but occurs through other mechanisms and at lower doses than that required to produce diuresis. Indapamide was specifically designed with this is mind, and has a larger therapeutic window for hypertension, without pronounced diuresis, than most other diuretics.

Chemically, diuretics are a diverse group of compounds that either stimulate or inhibit various hormones that naturally occur in the body to regulate urine production by the kidneys.

Alcohol produces diuresis through modulation of the vasopressin system.

Answer 3

Diuretics are medications used in the treatment of high blood pressure (hypertension), kidney disease, heart failure and other conditions. They stimulate the kidney to produce more urine, flushing additional minerals (e.g., salt) and fluids from the body.
The most common type used for heart-related problems are thiazide diuretics or a combination of thiazide and potassium-sparing diuretics. Other types are loop diuretics and osmotic diuretics. All except potassium sparring diuretics decrease levels of potassium in the body as well as sodium.

Answer 4

Water tablets to remove excess fluid in your body, they help to expel it. Too many though can make you dehydrated and that isn't good.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

usually, they cause a change in the chemical make-up, such as an extra loss of sodium, b/c where sodium goes, water/fluids follow, but b/c Na & K are so closely ralated, take extra K, thru extra orange juice, bannanas,...

Answer 7

They help you get rid of the excess water in your body. Be warned they deplete your potassium too. Eat bananas if you are taking them

Answer 8

They help you to get rid of water that you have retained by making you...ummm....pee.

Answer 9

are you talking about LASIX? it makes you go to the bathroom because you probably have fluid overload....

Answer 10

in simple terms they make you wee wee a lot