Raid!
Did you drink water well today? Do you feel dry mouth?
But sometimes, even if you drink a lot of water, you still feel dry and thirsty, why is this, and what should you do?
1. Eat too salty
A heavy salt and spicy hot pot and boiled fish on weekends, snacks such as strange beans, potato chips, and nine-made plum meat eaten at work, and watercress sauce and chili sauce for bibimbap are all high-sodium foods that make us dry and thirsty[1].
2. Do not drink water in time after strenuous exercise
Sweating profusely after a long period of strenuous exercise or heavy physical labor, but it is easy to thirst without timely replenishment.
3. Fever, diarrhea
When you have a fever or diarrhea, you lose water and you may become thirsty.
4. Take medication
Long-term use of some drugs, such as antidepressants amitriptyline, propmizine, etc., antihypertensive drugs clonidine, piperazin, etc., will also appear dry mouth and thirst symptoms [2].
5. Suffering from oral diseases
For example, mumps or oral gland stones may also induce symptoms of dry mouth and thirst.
In addition, if the middle-aged and elderly people are often thirsty, it may be because with the degradation of physical functions, the salivary glands atrophy and the amount of saliva secretion becomes less, so dry mouth occurs; dry mouth in pregnant women is also common.
In the above cases of dry mouth, as long as you pay attention to drinking more water [3], or prescribe the right medicine, after the disease is cured or relieved, the thirst will basically disappear.
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However, if dry mouth is not related to all of these reasons, it may be a signal of some systemic disease!
1. Diabetes
If you find that you are often thirsty, and that your urinary output increases for no reason, your weight is lost for no reason, and your fatigue is not relieved, you must check to rule out diabetes [4].
2. Sjogren's syndrome
The disease is due to the attack of immune cells to destroy their own secretory glands, resulting in atrophy of the glands and a decrease in secretory function, resulting in various symptoms of dryness in the body.
If it lasts for more than 3 months, every day feel dry mouth, dry eyes (even there is a repeated "sand" blowing into the eyes of the scrub), dry and itchy skin, usually need to drink frequently, parotid glands repeated or persistent enlargement, rampant caries (about 50% of patients with Sjögren syndrome will have multiple caries that are difficult to control the development of caries, manifested as teeth gradually blackened, and then small pieces of peeling off, and finally only residual roots), etc., you should pay attention to this disease [5].
3. Diseases of the blood system
Megaloblastic anemia due to iron deficiency, pernicious anemia, or vitamin B deficiency may result in atrophic glossitis and symptoms such as decreased saliva secretion [6,8].
4. Mental illness
Some people with depression and anxiety disorders, because of long-term medication or psychological factors, can lead to conscious dry mouth (in fact, there is no dry mouth, but because of the hints of psychological factors, they always feel dry mouth), and even when eating, they will feel that they need to drink some water to swallow [7].
In addition to these factors, diabetes insipidus, benign lymphoepithelial lesions, primary biliary cirrhosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, candidiasis, and sleep apnea may cause dry mouth.
In addition, some cancers may also have symptoms of dry mouth, but you don't have to panic too much, and you don't have to give yourself a conclusion because of dry mouth, because cancer is usually accompanied by other symptoms (such as lumps, weight loss, unexplained fever, etc.), and also need to pass a series of tests to confirm the diagnosis.
1. Don't wait until you're thirsty to drink water
Thirst is already a sign of obvious lack of water in the body, so in daily life, we must drink water at any time, do not wait until thirsty to drink water [1].
2. Drink enough water
Healthy adults should drink 1500-1700 ml per day (about 7 to 8 cups of disposable paper cups), and in the case of heavy sweating, drink more appropriately [1].
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3. Drink these waters to quench your thirst
The best option to drink water is boiled water, if you don't like tasteless water, you can also drink:
Light tea
Adults can use light tea (such as green tea, white tea, black tea) instead of some boiled water, but pay attention to drink less strong tea.
Mixed grains, miscellaneous beans soaked in water
Barley soaking water, buckwheat soaking water, boiling mung bean soup is also a good choice for "people who don't like to drink white water", remember not to put or put less sugar!
Soak the fruit in water
Kumquats, lemons, and limes are washed and cut into thin slices and soaked in water (without or without sugar) are also very delicious.
Also, don't drink carbonated drinks or other sweet drinks when you're thirsty! They cause the body to lose more water and even become more thirsty the more you drink.
Drinking water may seem like a small thing in a busy life, but it is actually a big thing that is closely related to our health.
Develop a good drinking habit to get away from the small problem of frequent thirst and live a healthier life.
Pick up the glass and drink the water
Reviewer
Lin Chen | a dietitian in the Department of Clinical Nutrition, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Affiliated to Capital Medical University
Zhang Lin | Deputy Chief Physician, Department of Endocrinology, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University
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