How Do Diuretics Cause Water Retention?
Some types of water retention occur when water and protein leak from your blood into your tissues. The protein may stay in the tissues, where it becomes a focus for attracting water retention.
If you take diuretics, your kidneys will work harder, and will extract more water from your blood. Some water may leave your tissues, but the protein will draw it back again, leaving your blood dehydrated. Your body will then learn to hold on to water in order to protect itself from dehydration. This holding on makes water retention worse.
You can read more about this in the Waterfall Diet book.
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- Are Diuretics The Best Medicine To Treat Water Retention?
- Water Retention And Water Pills
- Natural Diuretics
- Diuretic Foods
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Comments
Comment from Donna
Time January 12, 2011 at 10:19 pm
I was told to take sodium sulphate tablets to help with water retention and my bloated stomach. Will this help? It seems strange to be adding more salt to my body?
Comment from Linda Lazarides
Time January 26, 2011 at 9:21 pm
Was this prescribed by a doctor? If not, seems very unlikely to be appropriate.
Comment from donna
Time March 31, 2011 at 4:38 pm
my mom as cronic c.o.p.d and is on a c.pap machine 24/7,she also suffers with her heart and is on steriods for her breatheing,she as a caphita bag, she is Very limited to moveing infact she cannot move herself she sits and sleeps in a chair, at presant she is very large and as blown up from the belly down er skin is very red and looks like it is ready to break out,which happens often to mom,she is on 3 water tablets a day but nothfinks helping im very worried and doctors just keep her on them tablets,i think they are not looking in to her to much cause she is haveing paliative care and as been for 18months now,she always bounces back with all the problems she as but not this swelling of the legs and feet
Comment from teresa
Time August 4, 2011 at 6:15 pm
I have been getting hormone pellets for 9 months. I’ve noticed that I have symptoms resembling PMS. I’ve been postmenopausal for 8 years. Could I be getting too much of a certain hormone? I feel simply miserable:(
Comment from TJ
Time September 1, 2011 at 11:32 am
I’ve been taking Aldactide (co-flumactone) for 20 years. I want to stop. I started taking them because I retain fluid but want to use a more natural way of doing this. I hope the waterfall diet can help.
Comment from Gisela
Time October 28, 2011 at 9:49 pm
My husaband takes water pills. He has RA. All he takes for that is 2 Advil, he is 81 years old and in so much dicomfort.
Comment from leslie
Time December 29, 2009 at 2:05 am
WOW! i have had this happen….i took a 40 mg furosemide to relieve bloating and ended up with sore and tender to the touch skin….all over!! my back and thighs…awful! I was drinking more than usual over the holidays and felt “puffy”….well… i made a misatke! I THINK TAKING THE FUROSEMIDE MADE MY BODY DO EXACTLY WHAT YOU DESCRIBED! I FEEL MORE BLOATED AND PUFFY THAN EVER!