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Will Drinking Excess Water Every Day Cause Kidney Failure

2013-07-13 10:24

Will Drinking Excess Water Every Day Cause Kidney FailureWill drinking excess water every day cause kidney failure? We know injured kidneys can not bear heavy burden, and high fluid intake will increase kidney burden, so many kidney failure patients are told to limit fluid intake, so as to protect residual kidney function. Well, how about we heathy people? Will we develop kidney failure if we drink excess water everyday?

Will drinking excess water every day cause kidney failure?

As for this question, I am afraid the answer is Yes. It is normal for one to urinate a lot when he drinks a lots of water. Urine is normally produced in the kidney and then emptied into bladder through ureter. Kidney is the organ that takes charge of producing urine, and when we drink excess water everyday, our kidneys have to work overtime to filter excess water out of our circulatory system. If this condition lasts for a long time, kidney damages are caused easily. Besides, for a healthy individual, high fluid intake not only affects kidney condition, but also put unnecessary burden on our heart and blood vessels. For this reason, it is very necessary to adjust our daily fluid intake.

How much water should we drink everyday?

How much water should we drink everyday? This is a simple question with no easy answers, as it depends on many factors such as health condition, diet condition, physical activity and living environment. Generally speaking, for healthy people who eat lots of foods that contain lots of fluid naturally like wax gourd and meanwhile live in wet place, they need not to drink lots of water. But for these who do lots of physical activities every day, much more water will be needed.

Although proper fluid intake varies from individual to individual, there is a reference value according to The Institute of Medicine and it indicates that an adequate intake for men is roughly 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day and the adequate intake for women is 2.1 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day.

Lastly, for people with Chronic Kidney Failure, they need to limit their fluid intake strictly, as high fluid intake affects their illness condition severely. Here we offer online service and if you happen to be a kidney failure patient and want to know how much water to drink everyday, you can consult our on-line doctors directly.

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