Can drinking lots of water help detox?

Drinking enough water every day is very good for the body - Photo: DUYEN PHAN

“Drinking water properly and sufficiently is the first condition for the kidneys to function normally, and is an indispensable condition to "protect the environment" inside the body. The ancients focused on the excretion of the kidneys in old age, on the issue of "nourishing kidney water" to increase longevity" - Professor, Dr. Hoang Tuan said.

Easy heart failure, high blood pressure

Faced with the fact that many people are applying the method of waking up in the morning and drinking a lot of water to cure diseases, Professor Dr. Hoang Tuan, former director of Hospital 19-8, warned that several decades ago, someone advocated "drinking a lot of water every morning can cure all diseases". This was only based on subjective speculation, but many people did not consider carefully and applied it to themselves, drinking up to liters of water at once in the morning. Some people almost lost their lives due to heart failure and sudden high blood pressure after drinking too much water. Currently, this problem is applied by many people without knowing its consequences.

According to Dr. Cao Hong Phuc - Hospital 103, water is very beneficial for the body but the important thing is to know how to drink enough. Currently, many people apply the method of drinking as much water as possible, which is wrong and can easily lead to danger. Because drinking a lot of water (over 3 liters of water a day) dilutes the amount of electrolytes in the blood, low electrolytes disrupt muscle and nerve cell activity, making the body tired, weak, and not wanting to move.

In particular, too much water in the blood will flood into nerve cells, leading to water poisoning. At this time, the cells are swollen, the nerve cell membranes are less active, resulting in a serious decline in concentration. Furthermore, drinking too much water will increase the volume of circulation in the blood vessels. This increase in volume increases blood pressure, making it difficult to control, very dangerous for people with heart disease and heart failure because drinking too much water makes the heart work harder, making the patient more difficult to breathe, more tired due to worsening heart failure. In addition, water also reduces digestive function and too much water going to the intestines dilutes digestive juices. Therefore, the activity of digestive enzymes is significantly reduced...

Drink enough wateraccording to the body's needs

According to Professor Dr. Hoang Tuan, it might be reasonable and beneficial to modify the "extremist theory" (drinking a lot of water every morning to cure all diseases) into "drinking a 200ml glass of water every morning - a moderate amount of water - is a good method". Because 200ml can help excretion easily, facilitate the process of changing old and new, prevent constipation, prevent poisoning... Drinking water must follow the body's daily water needs and must know how to drink properly.

In a normal physiological state, at an ambient temperature of about 20 - 25 degrees Celsius, an average mental worker needs 1.5 - 2 liters of water depending on the size of the person (average 1.7 liters) for 24 hours. This amount of water is partly contained in food, vegetables, rice, soup... The amount of water each person needs to drink every day is 1 - 1.2 liters. Working in hot places in the summer, when sweating a lot, when doing heavy work, requires more water. In cold weather, when sweating less, doing light work, requires a little less water...

Drinking enough water not only helps you avoid harmful drinks but also increases or decreases according to your needs when your health status changes. If you encounter events such as urinary tract infections, high fever, diarrhea, eating toxic substances, allergies... that is, when you need a diuretic regimen more than medicine, you must increase your water intake, you can use lemon juice, fruit juice, weak tea (less sugar)... to help your body eliminate toxins easily. Because in these cases, if you urinate a lot every day, the disease will quickly heal and you will quickly get well.

And you must know how to drink water properly, as no one increases the amount of water they drink when they have edema, high blood pressure or heart failure. On the contrary, they should not reduce the amount of water they drink when their body is dehydrated due to diarrhea, vomiting or fever.special gold...

Drinking too much water is harmful, but the habit of drinking little water is also not suitable for the body's hygiene regime. This leads to an increase in the concentration of harmful substances in urine, the specific gravity of urine always increases, can be deposited in the kidney, in the bladder, causing stones in those parts. That is not to mention the bad consequences for the body due to the elimination of waste products due to lack of water stagnation.

Correct and sufficient

According to Professor Dr. Hoang Tuan, drinking water properly and sufficiently does not mean drinking a large amount of water at once (large mugs or liters), but rather drinking many times a day, each time a moderate amount. When you are out in the sun and very thirsty, you should not drink a lot at once to "quench your thirst". Drinking too much water at once will suddenly increase the amount of water circulating in the blood, causing an "overload" state of the heart, which can cause dilated heart muscles or heart attacks.sudden high blood pressure