Adequate Hydration: A habit you should build

"Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine"– Slovakian Proverb.

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Health is wealth as we all know and in moments of ill-health, we are willing to let go of huge amounts of wealth to get us back again to 💯.
Of course, we're humans and will definitely fall sick as it's part of life but then, we can reduce the severity and the number of times by adhering to few health tips we might have been ignoring or oblivious of...
Prevention is better than cure they say👍

As someone who literally spends greater part of my day in the hospital, I've come to see a lot of patients that would never have been admitted and probably undergone the surgery they did only if they drank enough water.

Drinking Enough Water

As cheap as it may look, (although economy is making it look as if it's costly though but still...), drinking enough water is a great health tip for taking care of our body.

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We often neglect it because we don't spend thousands of money to get that, however, if we knew how effective it is for our health, we would not only take it seriously but also, set alarm as to when we will drink water whether we're thirsty or not.

How Important Is This Act?

• Did you know the urethral is referred to as a sterile tract?

Come to think of it, urethral is the passage through which we excrete urine; urine isn't clean, but then, the urethral is sterile, do you know why?

It's because when you drink enough water, the urethral utilises that in constantly washing away pathogens that would have thrived in the urine, that's why whenever there's any condition that will cause stasis (prolonged stay of urine) along the urethral tract leads to a lot of health complications.

Now imagine what will happen when you don't drink enough water?

It literally means that the pathogens will have enough time to lodge along the tracts causing several health complications.

• Did You Know About Urolithiasis?

Urolithiasis,also called Kidney stones are hard deposits formed inside the kidney and consists of minerals and salts.
Ideally, when there is enough water, these minerals and salts are excreted perfectly fine but then, when there is a state of dehydration, these minerals and salts starts forming crystals.

These crystals adhere to the urinary tract walls and might lodge in the ureteral walls causing ureteral stenosis stenosis (reducing the lumen of ureter) and the person starts experiencing severe, sharp pains or burning sensation whenever he or she wants to urinate amidst other symptoms.

This is a condition that in worst case scenario leads to surgical treatment and could be easily prevented just by taking enough water.

• Did You Also Know That One Of The Greatest Treatment For Vaso-Occlusive Crisis Is Hydration?

Vaso-occlusive crisis is a medical condition where the blood flow is obstructed by abnormal red blood cells blocking it leading to deprived oxygen and causing severe pain.
It mostly happens in sickle cell anaemia patients.

When these patients present, there are 3 key treatments given to them and one of them is hydration, but this time around isn't just hydration but hyperhydration, that's to tell you how important drinking water is.

When they are discharged, they are also advised to always drink water liberally by giving them a particular target to finish each day as this helps reduce the number of times they suffer the crisis.

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Water is one of the greatest medicine but often neglected because it is cheap, however, I believe that we all will prefer drinking water to undergoing surgery, so why not start the hydration journey today?

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Thanks for reading and have a nice day.