Should diabetics drink more water, or less water? Before answering this question, we need to know a little bit about diabetes, we all know that diabetes has the famous "three more and one less", i.e., drink more, eat more, urinate more and lose weight.
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1, why do diabetic patients urinate and drink more?
I put polyuria and polydipsia at the top of the list because polyuria and polydipsia are more common among the three, and about 2/3 of diabetic patients have polyuria and polydipsia. Here put polyuria in the front, drinking in the back is also some consideration, this is because polyuria and drinking have a cause and effect relationship, polyuria is the cause of drinking, drinking is the result of polyuria. In other words, diabetic patients do not "drink too much, have to urinate", but "urinate too much, have to drink".
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Diabetic patients with elevated blood glucose, and high blood sugar on the human body damage, the human body in order to protect themselves, had to urinate more in order to discharge sugar through the urine, resulting in a significant increase in the amount of urine. People who urinate too much, the body lost a lot of water, will feel thirsty. The clinical signs of excessive urination and drinking are dry lips and mouth, sticky tongue, and sometimes bitter and numb. Drinking more than one 5-pound thermos of water per day, urinating more often and more frequently during the day and night, especially at night.
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Some people drink so much water that their stomachs are distended and they still feel thirsty. There are also people who have a dry mouth but do not want to drink water. Chinese medicine calls this "thirst for water" and considers it to be caused by the accumulation of dampness and heat in the body, which makes the mouth dry and the dampness stagnant. It is said that about 2/3 of the diabetic patients have this symptom, which means that 1/3 of the patients do not have this symptom or it is not obvious.
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2. Should diabetics limit their water intake?
Some diabetic patients have a misunderstanding, they think that polydipsia is one of the main symptoms of diabetes, and polyuria is caused by polydipsia, so in order to control diabetes, in order to control the diet, at the same time, you should also control the water. This view is incorrect and this is harmful to health.
The importance of water in the human body is self-evident, a few days without food, people may still be barely survive, if a few days without water, people will certainly die. For diabetic patients, drink more because the patient's blood sugar is too high, must increase the amount of urine, so that the sugar from the urine, so the patient urinated more, and because of the urine, the body of water loss is too much to have to drink. In other words, the patient drinks a lot of water, is a symptom caused by high blood sugar, is the body a kind of self-protection measures.
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Diabetic patients who deliberately drink less water will cause blood concentration, blood sugar and blood viscosity is too high, other nitrogen-containing wastes in the blood can not be eliminated, which may cause serious consequences. Some traditional Chinese medicine practitioners advocate "drinking enough water, sweating through the sweat, and emptying the bowels in order to live a long life", and I agree with this viewpoint.
Here the water to drink enough, that is to say, often pay attention to replenish water, drink to drink water quickly from the urine out, so that the body can make the waste fully eliminated, the body is certainly a great benefit. Of course, for renal insufficiency, accompanied by edema patients, to be considered separately.
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Therefore, diabetic patients should be based on the body's needs, neither restriction of drinking water, nor excessive drinking water, reasonable drinking water is healthy.