not drinking water for 4 weeks?

Question

ok so i havent drank water for 4 weeks and i have to admit, that my face looks entirely different, its more bloated....and my skin is drying quickly...all i've been drinking is those tropicana fruit juices, im wondering...is this the cause for my drying skin and sick bloating of face?...because i have not drank wateR?...

Answer 1

Your face and skin look funny? Think how your internal organs feel! Every organ in your body requires water, including your skin. When your skin doesn't look healthy, that's a signal that there is something wrong with your whole body. Severe dehydration can lead to changes in the body's chemistry, kidney failure, and become life-threatening.


Signs of Dehydration:

* being thirsty
* feeling lightheaded, dizzy or weak
* rapid heartbeat
* dry lips and mouth
* darkened urine
* decrease in urination

A reliable clue to indicate dehydration is a rapid drop in weight. This loss may equal several pounds in a few days (or at times hours). A rapid drop of over 10% (fifteen pounds in a person weighing 150 pounds) is considered severe.


Rehydration:

In rehydrating a child, there is less margin for error than for an adult. The younger the child, the more careful the rehydration must be. Cases that demand particular attention to detail are those in which organ function (especially skin, heart, brain, or kidney) is critically compromised. Overhydration may be as serious as severe dehydration in children; the rehydration should therefore be done under medical supervision.

The best way to treat dehydration is to prevent it from occurring. If one suspects fluid loss is excessive, notify a physician. Intravenous or oral fluid replacement may be needed.


Some Drink Options:

So do you have to drink eight glasses of water a day? No, but you do need to drink enough to satisfy your thirst, and maybe a little extra if you're sick or if you're going to be exercising. The best drink is water, of course. Juice is OK, but choose it less often than water and milk. Sports drinks are fine once in a while, but water works just as well.

Limit soda and other sugary drinks, such as fruit punches, lemonades, and iced teas. These drinks contain a lot of sugar that your body doesn't need. Some of them also contain caffeine, which is a diuretic (say: dye-yuh-reh-tik). This means that caffeinated drinks cause you to urinate (pee) more often than normal. In other words, they tell your body to get rid of fluids. And as you now know, that's the opposite of what you need to do if you're dehydrated!


About Your Tropicana Juices:

Juice is not necessarily bad for you, but water is better for staying hydrated. Calories and sugar content for an 8oz serving of Tropicana's most sugary drinks are listed below:

Juice, calories, grams of sugar
Orchard Style Apple, 200, 48
Grape, 270, 62
Cranberry Cocktail, 240, 59

That's a lot of sugar! 8 glasses of Grape Juice is 496 grams of sugar and 2160 calories! And don't do the juice diet unless your doctor is monitoring. If you're hooked on Tropicana juice, the company makes some low-sugar juices. Try them out-- they might just taste good! Also, the smoothies have less sugar per oz, and they look delish!

Answer 2

Have you made any other changes?

How much tropicana fruit juice are you drinking? One a week? :/ You should try drinking more water to see if that really is the cause of those symptoms you've listed up there -- and you should go to the doctors, ASAP.

Answer 3

Water is essential to life . Your blood is water based not juice based. The body needs water to detoxify the body. Food coloring is a toxin so are artificial sweeteners as well as sugar in large amounts.These three toxins in general take large amounts of water for removal from the body. Just to inform, artificially sweetend beverages need 3-10 times the normal amount of foodcoloring than say a more naturally sweetend beverage. Why? Because the molecular structure is so severly altered by the artificial sweetener, that larger amounts are neccesary for the beverage to maintain a cosistent coloring.

Answer 4

Always leave a fresh bowl of water out. I once had a very small lab mix that had 13 pups (in January in northern WI) She only had 9 teats, and she rejected them. I made gruel out of the puppy chow and spread it on a cookie sheet and let them slop around in it. They first licked their feet, then learned to eat. By 3 weeks they were eating softened chow and drinking water on their own. You're doing a better job than I did.

Answer 5

That may have something to do with it...Fruit juices usually do not hydrate you too well because of the sugar in them. Try drinking at least 64 oz (8 cups) of water each day and see if it helps...if it doesn't you should see a doctor.

Answer 6

Those Tropicana Juices contain water. In fact eveything contains water, even bread!

Answer 7

yes ! fruit juices are fine once a day but water is life giving. you should be drinking at least 8 - 8 oz glasses of water per day, try flavored waters or add a slice of lemon or orange to your water if you don't like it plain.

Answer 8

dont do that it is bad 4 u and the only reason y your not dead right now is because the tropicana has water in it. but u need pure water,

Answer 9

yes that is. u r alive becuase of the water in other foods and drinks. U need 3 8oz. glasses of water each day. that is what keeps ur skin hydrated. hurry up and drink some water ASAP.

Answer 10

typically you should have died a week ago but the fact youve been drinking juice i'll say you'll live...probably some of the ingredients in the juice is sucking the water in your body... I don;t know