Why would someone who has water retention be told to increase their water intake?

Question

Surely this does not make any sense or does it? Please explain you experts out there. Thank you.

People ought not to answer these sort of question unless they know what they are talking about as does Panacea seemingly.

Answer 1

Water retention, without a pathologic process, is your body attempting to hold on to water by forcing it into the cells. It does this in reaction to your not drinking enough water. It's a survival mechanism. If you drink more water, your body won't be worried that you will die of thirst and will release the water from the cells getting rid of that puffy, retaining water look.

Now. If you have water retention because of kidney disease or congestive heart failure, that's different. In those cases, follow your doctor's advice VERY carefully or you will, ummm, die.

Answer 2

i suppose the retention of water is caused by a problem with the usual passage of water through the body and by increasing the amount of fluid you take you are increasing how often the process repeats thus allowing the possibility that whatever is causing the problem might pass or self heal ie the more often you sneeze the less likely you are to have a blocked nose ?
I'm no expert but it makes sense .

Answer 3

Because it will encourage your body to dispose of more! When your body realises that you are getting frequent, regular fluid intake it will dispose of what it doesn't need at that time. Water retention could be a way of your body telling you that you are lacking fluid and as a result the body will hold onto what it has in case of dehydration. By drinking more fluid and more regualrly the body will not need to hold on to the excess fluid!

Answer 4

The body retains water when it's lacking water in case you end up going somewhere where you have no water at all, in an effort to prevent future dehydration (this is similar to why your body stores all it's fat when you don't eat anything).
Therefore if you drink loads of water, the body doesn't need to retain any 'just in case' hence drinking more water will erase water retention.

Answer 5

Because water retention always happens because of dehydration or not enough water in the body and in the diet to filter out impurities that need water to be neutralised (like salt, toxins, acidic waste).

It is in a way similar to how you hold on to body fat if you do not eat enough food. In this way, you also hold on to much water if you don't drink enough water (or waterrich foods like fruits and vegetables).

Answer 6

It totally makes sense!

If your body senses that there is a shortage of available water coming in, it is going to hold on to every little last drop it has. If you drink enough water, your body will think, "Hey, this is great! I will always have plenty of water. Let's get rid of the excess!"

It doesnt work in every case, but it is a great first step in alleviating edema.

Answer 7

No, potassium (like sodium) is a solute, meaning it keeps water interior the body via osmosis. Potassium and Sodium in a large number of issues are very alike, so declaring they are opposites is amazingly deceptive. in simple terms drink sufficient fluids like you stated and also you're going to be high-quality.

Answer 8

Because you body holds on to the fluids it needs and more if it is not getting enought, because it has no idea when it is going to get more. If you hydrate more it lets go of the excess water. It's kind of the same philospy as if you starve yourself the body turns everything into fat, because it has no idea on when its going to get the fuel it needs. It how it survives

Answer 9

1) to help get rid of toxins
2) your body could be holding on to water because it is actually dehydrated so holds on to every drop i can to combat this
By the way who told you this ? Did you check it out with your GP

Answer 10

For some odd reason, the more water you drink, the less your body retains.. go figure!