What is Water Retention?
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what is that? got any effect on the health?
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high blood pressure.....
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It's like one day your weighing machine tells you you weigh 60kg, and immediately the next day, it says 61.65kg.
Now that's water retention.
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to score highly on scales.
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erm yea, this usually happens to girls when it is near their period, during PMS ba...dats y girls tend to put on a bit of weight during PMS...
Happens to me all the time...
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Water Retention happens when your body accummulates more fluids and the total fluid levels go above the norm.
For some ladies, PMS brings on a mild water retention. That's when your everyday clothes start to feel tight around the waist or torso, or your bra starts to feel reeeely tight, it feels like wearing a Boa Constrictor!
Other more serious medical conditions can also bring on water retention. In such cases, the water retention can be so extreme that the limbs (hands and legs) start to look swollen. And in very bad cases, when you use a thumb / finger to press on the limb and remove it quickly, you'll see an indentation left there for a while.
That's what we call 'pitting edema'. Oh, btw, 'edema' is the medical term we use for 'water retention'.
Patients with AOCRF (Acute-On-Chronic Renal Failure), ESRF (End-Stage Renal Failure), commonly suffer from bad edema. Patients who are very ill and have been bed-bound for quite some time also tend to exhibit edematous symptoms.
Hope this info helps.
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Man, that's mild.Originally posted by Wanda:It's like one day your weighing machine tells you you weigh 60kg, and immediately the next day, it says 61.65kg.
Now that's water retention.
I woke up once and overnight, I was 3.5 kgs heavier!! Then two days later, back to normal. -
That must have been quite a shock, esp. in the early morning!Originally posted by Rhonda:Man, that's mild.
I woke up once and overnight, I was 3.5 kgs heavier!! Then two days later, back to normal. -
Yeah... I felt like a walking sponge!Originally posted by Wanda:That must have been quite a shock, esp. in the early morning! -
WHOAAA!!!!
tooo much information
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Usually I put on around 6 pounds...dats like 2-3 kgs ba...
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i went for a foot reflexology session once..
and the "shifu" said i got water retention n told me to cut down on my fluid intake..
i was drinking 2 litres a day cos of the hot weather... n have since cut down to 1 litre a day (my usual intake is 500ml. dun tell nellie shhhh)
my weight went down 3 kg in 3 days...
drinkin so little ler still can get water retention -
I thot the thing that retains water is the amount of salt or minerals taken in, as excess water (e.g. your 2 litre) will just passed out?
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i dunno leh.. i only noe if i take in more than 500 ml in a day, i'd be runnin to the toilet every 30 min...Originally posted by Wanda:I thot the thing that retains water is the amount of salt or minerals taken in, as excess water (e.g. your 2 litre) will just passed out? -
Not that simple. Hormones play a part too, namely, the hormones secreted by our adrenal glands, located on our two kidneys.Originally posted by Wanda:I thot the thing that retains water is the amount of salt or minerals taken in, as excess water (e.g. your 2 litre) will just passed out?
It's a pretty complex pathophysiology. -
500mls isn't a lot of water.Originally posted by shinta:i dunno leh.. i only noe if i take in more than 500 ml in a day, i'd be runnin to the toilet every 30 min...
It's good to train your bladder to hold more. By right, we should be passing a moderate to large amount of urine each time, and not make frequent trips just to pass a trickle each time. -
its a large amount of urine passed out each time..Originally posted by Rhonda:500mls isn't a lot of water.
It's good to train your bladder to hold more. By right, we should be passing a moderate to large amount of urine each time, and not make frequent trips just to pass a trickle each time.
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think normally depends on one's diet nature i.e. salt intake...
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Well, be more open-minded, alexkusu!Originally posted by alexkusu:WHOAAA!!!!
tooo much information
You DO live amongst womenfolk, don't you? Grandma, mom, aunt, cousins, classmates, schoolmates, friends, and in future, girlfriend (that one hopefully not in the plural tense! hahaha!!
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Just like Breast Cancer Awareness, it's good to know about such things. Ignorance doesn't mean bliss. -
Yeah, I know...that's why I don't like to drink water.Originally posted by shinta:i dunno leh.. i only noe if i take in more than 500 ml in a day, i'd be runnin to the toilet every 30 min...
Another thing I discover, is when I'm hungry for too long a time, my body seems to release a lot of water, even though I didn't drink extra water...presume it's the metabolic process at work...? After that happens, the weight becomes so much lighter.....but not for long though. -
Too much salt DOES worsen water retention. That's why it's not advisable for hypertensive folks to have too much salt intake because their fluid levels will rise, which means a greater blood volume, which means more work on the heart which has to beat harder / more often to pump that larger blood volume around the body, and the blood vessels have to start dilating to accommodate the volume.Originally posted by kaobeikaobu:think normally depends on one's diet nature i.e. salt intake... -
but but but.. im too young to know about female's internal structure...Originally posted by Rhonda:Well, be more open-minded, alexkusu!
You DO live amongst womenfolk, don't you? Grandma, mom, aunt, cousins, classmates, schoolmates, friends, and in future, girlfriend (that one hopefully not in the plural tense! hahaha!! )...
Just like Breast Cancer Awareness, it's good to know about such things. Ignorance doesn't mean bliss. -
Guess you have no worries....no one can ever accuse you of being a SNAG or metrosexual...haha...Originally posted by alexkusu:but but but.. im too young to know about female's internal structure... -
but.. i'm not eating my mom's cooking.... so my salt intake should be lower..Originally posted by Rhonda:Too much salt DOES worsen water retention. That's why it's not advisable for hypertensive folks to have too much salt intake because their fluid levels will rise, which means a greater blood volume, which means more work on the heart which has to beat harder / more often to pump that larger blood volume around the body, and the blood vessels have to start dilating to accommodate the volume. -
yeah..im a CUNTOriginally posted by Wanda:Guess you have no worries....no one can ever accuse you of being a SNAG or metrosexual...haha...