You Need More Water Than Usual!!!

A good guide to gauge if you are drinking enough water in this hot spell is the colour of your urine, the darker the more water you should drink. If you have permanent strong ie darker urine seek medical advice.

Isn't this just plain old common sense?

Mmmm. Common sense is not common. I loathe water, always have but I know I must discipline myself. So I drink fizzy water and am currently making my own lemon squash which really is not bad if I say so myself. Am also on my first glass of @ decent French red. Reward for walk and the lashings of water!

Drink more in hot weather - who knew?

Drink when thirsty seems to be the most sensible advice.. no point in guzzling down extra as, guess what,
you just wee it out..

Guzzler said:

Isn't this just plain old common sense?

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Yes.

Guzzler said:

Isn't this just plain old common sense?

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It's an optional extra with some people.

Mr_Pot said:

Drink more in hot weather - who knew?

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I drink in cold weather as well.

bulkbiker said:

no point in guzzling down extra as, guess what, you just wee it out..

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I get through a fair bit of water in summer when the temp is the thirties, most is sweated out. I do not urinate a lot more in summer than I do in our winter

The very elderly are possibly the only people who should consciously make a point of drinking adequate fluids, whatever the weather. They are often affected by their medication, they feel thirst less than when younger, they are sometimes less able to get up and fetch a drink and dementia also plays a part in them just plain forgetting.

I was told all this when I commented to a care assistant at my dear old mum's care home that the residents were always drinking tea, water or fruit juice.

Personally I don't think too hard about drinking fluids, my body tells me, I'd only get concerned if the colour of my urine went very dark. My ankles seemed to be a good guide as well, I have lymphoedema and if I can see the ankle bones, there's a chance I need to take on some more fluid, which seems to go straight to my ankles. LOL

DavidGrahamJones said:

I was told all this when I commented to a care assistant at my dear old mum's care home that the residents were always drinking tea, water or fruit juice.

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Sounds like a great care home! Half of the flats in my dad's are facing south, and more like baking ovens at above 30C. Yet the carers don't have the time or the sense to make sure the elderly drink.

briped said:

Sounds like a great care home!

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It was a great care home. They were also very observant, I had some problems with high BP one day after a nightmare journey to the care home (35 miles away) and mum telling me that Gran was in the room waiting to take my mum to heaven. I diffused that one by telling mum she wasn't good enough to go to heaven and gran would have to wait, but it affected me. Care assistant could see I wasn't my usual self, BP was taken and at 220/140 I was in West Middx hospital before I could blink. Turns out I'm a fraud, nothing wrong with my heart or tubes.

DavidGrahamJones said:

Care assistant could see I wasn't my usual self, BP was taken and at 220/140 I was in West Middx hospital before I could blink. Turns out I'm a fraud, nothing wrong with my heart or tubes.

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In that situation I'd prefer being a fraud, but bless that care assistant. The good ones are gold!

Thought it was the case that if you wait til you’re thirsty you are already starting to dehydrate