How to drink water healthily when Summer is coming?

Hai Alen
3 min readMar 2, 2021

Water is the source of life and essential nutrients for the human body. It accounts for about 60–70% of an adult’s body weight. Water helps regulate our body temperature, lubricates our organs and joints, and helps dissolve and transport nutrients, wastes, and toxins. So water plays a vital role in our health.

In the hot summer, the temperature is high and the humidity is high, the human body is easy to sweat a lot of dehydration, it is very important to supplement water in time, so we must drink more water, then how to drink water best in summer? Everyone has their own way of hydrating, some people like to drink plain boiled water, some people like to drink warm boiled water, some people like to drink hot tea. Let me share with you some scientific and healthy ways to drink water.

1. Drink water in small amounts many times

Needs in a small amount of water to drink many times, this can only be more is good for your health, this is because the water in the stomach will only stay for 2 to 3 minutes, and then will soon enter the small intestine, and is absorbed into the bloodstream, if one-time drink lots of water will not only increase the burden of intestines and stomach, can also lead to dilute gastric juice, will also affect to the digestion of the food.

2.Do not drink too much cold water

In life, we often habitually drink cold water, but we do not know that drinking cold water will make us gastrointestinal mucosa capillary constriction, causing gastrointestinal discomfort and even diarrhea. And too hot water into the esophagus, easy to destroy the mucous membrane of the esophagus, induced esophagus. Therefore, the problem of drinking water is particularly important, the most appropriate temperature is 10℃~30℃.

3. The amount of water you drink varies from person to person

Medical judgment: normal people can judge when to replenish water by the color of urine, normal urine is light yellow, color is too dark should replenish water. In addition, it is worth noting that drinking water should also vary from person to person. For example acute nephritis, renal failure patients should not drink too much water; Drink more water than usual when you have a cold or fever.

4.Don’t drink too fast

When drinking water in summer, especially boys, they are used to pouring water violently. Drink water too fast, water will quickly enter the blood, make the blood-thinning, blood volume increase, especially for the heart ability is not good, there will be chest tightness, shortness of breath and other symptoms, serious may lead to myocardial infarction. So drink water only to absorb their own water can be, do not drink water too fast.

5. It is better to drink filtered water

Drinking what kind of water is a necessary thing for you to think about, Tap water? Bottled water? Or filtered water? It’s better for us to drink filtered water, purchase a water filtration system is proper protection for us. Or you can find a refrigerator water purifier to filter the water for you!

6.Don’t wait for thirst to drink

When you feel thirsty, it means that your body is already dehydrated. The right attitude to drinking water is to hydrate yourself before you become dehydrated. This requires that you know the warning signs of dehydration and don’t wait until your mouth is dry before drinking.

7.Don’t drink cold water when you are thirsty at night

Almost everyone has the experience of being thirsty in the middle of the night. When thirsty occurs in the middle of the night, many friends drink some cool white to relieve it. Especially people with heart disease and chronic discomfort should not drink cold water after getting up at night, otherwise, they will easily cause disease. At this time, you can drink some warm water, usually half a cup or a cup. Therefore, oral bacteria will slowly multiply at night. So you should rinse your mouth with warm water before drinking.

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Hai Alen

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