Thread: Dehydration- How much water do you drink?

I have the same problem actually RC!

But my problem is I just dont get thirsty so I dont drink when I'm supposed to. I have to force myself to drink water or else I get dehydrated.

Yeah, the re-hydration packs are what I guzzle regularly, specially the morning after.

You may also have a close look at your "drinking water", apparently some water treatment (rev. ozmosis?) makes it kindda 'suck' minerals/electrolytes out, thus aggrevating rather than relieving the problem.

I drink rainwater, seems ok and tastes well.

most definately the salts

lack of water will cause a headache not lack of energy

lack of food / salts will cause lack of energy.

With exercise at the gym I drink somewhere around 6-8 litres a day.

At least 4 litres at the gym.

As kingwilly said, it could well be a lack of salt. Try the local pharmacy and see if they have any salt tablets to give you a boost. In a previous job (in the Red Sea) we used to sweat buckets and we were told to add salt tablets to our daily diets to keep us from dehydrating/losing too much energy.

RC it may well be in you diet as well, drinking that amount of water a day you should not be dehydrated, don't drink any softdrinks as well, they are full of sugar, drink those energy packs.

No blood sugar problems, RC?
I'm not sure but feeling that thirsty can be a lack of minerals or/and some latent diabetes.

Don't count the water you drink, count the number of pisses you have each day. That is a much better guide as to whether your kidneys are working OK.

I always add salt to my orange juice to get my salt level up.

I never drink water other than what is contained in beer, whisky, gin, coffee and Pepsi.

I think it was the heat/salt thing, I do sweat a lot, especialy doing manual labour in 40C plus temps!! Had a couple of liters of water with those rehydration sachetas in them today and feel a lot better. Plus the fact that we went from 45C haet yesterday afternoon to a massive storm with hailstones today....thank god for hot showers

I don't drink much water, don't know why. I do a lot after have Somtum and always wake up in the midle of the night if I drink whiskey.

Originally Posted by Goddess of Whatever

and always wake up in the midle of the night if I drink whiskey

Then do you drink water or do you just grab a pillow and nod off again. Or do you ?

Very good thread. This is my experience. If you are peeing yellow, you need water.

Salt pills can be bad. Follow a regular diet and your salt intake should be enough.

Alcohol does dehydrate a person.

Age does play a factor....

Actually, I grew up on a dairy farm in 'Missoura'. Doing chores and putting up hay in the summer use to suck the energy right out of me...

Unless, one has an underlying medical problem, more water and frequent rests is generally the best bet. Thus the Thais speed...

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Very good thread. This is my experience. If you are peeing yellow, you need water.

It is the shade of the yellow that tells you if you need water I believe.

I think it is something like the darker the urine the more water you need to drink.

Originally Posted by aging one

Originally Posted by Goddess of Whatever

and always wake up in the midle of the night if I drink whiskey

Then do you drink water or do you just grab a pillow and nod off again. Or do you ?

Depend on my mood.

^^
Yeah, beer is an option!

Women, and put an S on depends, it depends on my mood!!

Originally Posted by aging one

Women, and put an S on depends, it depends on my mood!!

being a women she probably needs an 's' on mood as well AO

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Very good thread. This is my experience. If you are peeing yellow, you need water.

Salt pills can be bad. Follow a regular diet and your salt intake should be enough.

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true back home (and i assume the states!)

but here it is a different ball game - due to high temps and high humidity.

u can actaully drink too much water in heat like this !

by adding salts - we are not talking sea salt on your fiies - everyone agrees that bad - but mineral salts which are imoretant to vital metabolic functioning.

Definately check your blood sugar level RM, then do what everybody above says.

Originally Posted by Ice Maiden

Originally Posted by hillbilly

Very good thread. This is my experience. If you are peeing yellow, you need water.

It is the shade of the yellow that tells you if you need water I believe.

I think it is something like the darker the urine the more water you need to drink.

Yeah, if your pee is totally clear, you might be drinking too much, if you're peeing at all in that heat! Your body can only take in so much water at a time. Althletes sometimes dehydrate because they sweat out more than they can take in, even if they're drinking loads of water.

You need to find the balance in what you're burning off and what you can take it. When I'm working outside, I drink a liter/liter-and-a-half at a time. That usually fills my stomach up so that I feel it.

When your stomach goes down, you need to drink more water. It might only be 20 minutes later. Drink more water.

If your diet is salty, in a bad way, then you'll be fighting against yourself. And for every soda or coffee or milk that you drink, you have to drink an equal amount of water to help flush it out. The sugars in the sodas will work against you, too. Not to mention the caffine in coffee.

Yes, RC, most definitely get your blood sugar checked.

The first symptom of diabetes mellitis, the one that young people get, (as opposed to mature age onset diabetes) is an unquenchable thirst.

^ Thanks lily, I seem to be back to normal now (well as normal as I get). I'm pretty sure it was the heat. It was exeptionaly hot for about 3 days, that coupled with the extra workload. I think I was sweating the water out as fast as putting it in.