Water Retention: Diet To Banish Water Weight, Swollen Legs, Bloating
Diuretic foods sound like a good idea if you’re trying to lose water retention or water weight. After all, no-one wants to take pills if they can help it. But before you decide that diuretic foods are the best way to lose water retention, please be aware that they are not a cure. At best [...]
Most of us have been brought up to believe that a health problem should be treated with a tablet. This is fine if you have a disease caused by bacteria, since antibiotic tablets will make it go away quite quickly. If you have a headache, an aspirin tablet can also provide a quick cure. But [...]
I am taking bumetanide prescribed for heart failure but I think it is making me dehydrated and giving me water retention at the same time. My muscles feel weak and I get light-headed but I always feel better when I drink water. If my ankles swell up and I take a bumetanide to help get [...]
Diuretics are the best medicines to treat water retention caused by heart, liver or kidney problems. They are not very effective for water retention caused by other types of water retention, including chronic venous insufficiency premenstrual water retention idiopathic edema By causing dehydration they can actually make these problems worse. Dehydration is dangerous and your [...]
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 [...]
People often ask me if I can recommend a natural diuretic for their water retention. There’s a short answer and a long answer to this question. The short answer is yes, there are herbal diuretics such as dandelion leaf and boldo. Alcohol, tea and coffee are also diuretics. But why would you want to use [...]
Water rich with oxygen and vitamins passes from your smallest blood vessels (your capillaries) into the surrounding tissues, where it nourishes your cells. But if something goes wrong with the pressure in your capillaries, or if they get too “leaky”, then too much fluid accumulates in the tissue spaces between the cells, and cannot get [...]
Medical Treatments for Water Retention The drugs which doctors use to treat water retention are known as diuretics. There are several varieties, none of which is a cure for water retention, as they have to be taken every day. Loop diuretics and Thiazine diuretics These have names like bumetanide, frusemide, hydrochlorothiazide and metolazone. They encourage [...]
Linda Lazarides is author of six books including "The Waterfall Diet" on water retention, "Principles of Nutritional Therapy" and "Treat Yourself with Nutritional Therapy". She is founder of the British Association for Nutritional Therapy and has successfully treated hundreds of people referred to her by doctors.
