To maintain health, nutrition experts advise us to drink 8 glasses a day or about two liters. Many of the small number of drinking water should we consume depends on the type of activity and environmental temperature.
If you are a lot of outdoor activities, you certainly need more water than people who work in air-conditioned room. Workers in hot environments require about 6 liters of water per day.
According dr.Parlindungan Siregar, Sp.PD-KGH, water intake for the body there are rules, there can be less also should not be too much, especially for those suffering from kidney failure disease.
"The disease can affect kidney disorders drinking water intake. Kidney Patients should not drink much water, the maximum number is the volume of urine plus 500 ml, or about a liter every day," said a doctor from the Division of Renal Hypertension Department of Medicine Faculty of medicine / RSCM Jakarta.
Patients with chronic kidney disease stage 2 and 3 are encouraged to carefully consume large amounts of water because this stage tend to easily fit in a state of excess fluid. Characteristics of excess fluid in the body is swollen.
Added by dr.Parlin, excessive water intake is also not recommended in the elderly. This situation can lead to hyponatremia which when severe can lose consciousness, seizures, even death.
"Optimal water intake in the elderly is as much as a liter per day. But keep in mind also the runners thirst sensitivity is reduced, so that they can not drink all day without feeling hungry," he explained.
Meanwhile in healthy people, until now there is no data about the upper limit water demand in healthy people. Side effects that may arise from drinking too much water is in the number of trips to the toilet or nausea occur.
So, good drinking water is 2 liters in 24 hours. At this amount, not overwhelm the body's organs to process fluids and we still feel fresh and to avoid dehydration.
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