what are water pills and what do they do, can they reduce bloating?

Answer 1

Yere they reduce the fluid in your body so you dont feel so bloated.

Answer 2

Water pills are a diuretic which helps eliminate excessive body water which can be from edema or water weight from having your period. Bloating is basically gas so that maybe the sign of a different problem. Drink plenty of water and that should help clean out your bowels and that should reduce the gas.

Answer 3

Prescribed diuretics reduce your fluid by having you excrete excess, it should be supervised by a Dr. If you wish to simply reduce your fluid you can take parsley or celery and if you are drinking water and feel bloated you can add 1 tablespoon of pure OJ to 1 L of water, this tricks the body into processing it faster.

Answer 4

If they are to be taken then yes they should reduce bloating as dispose of the extra water retention in the body, but if they are for adding to tap or other water then they are to clear all the bad bacteria so watch out what you are doing!

Answer 5

A diuretic (colloquially called a water pill) is any drug or herb 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.

Answer 6

Thy are used to reduce the fluid in the body

Answer 7

the stop water retention but this may not be the cause of bloating it may be you have an allergy to wheat or something else ( get your self allergy checked before taking any medication)