It's so hot that drinking a lot of water can't quench your thirst. What should I do?

Symptoms of mild dehydration include dry mouth, dry nose, dry skin, thirst and dry stool. Lack of water in summer can easily lead to disharmony between body temperature and outdoor temperature, loss of body fluids and electrolyte disorder. If dehydration in the body is not corrected in time, but continues to worsen, it will cause some metabolic disorders in the body, induce and aggravate some diseases, such as stomach disease, halitosis, dyslipidemia, atherosclerosis, hypertension and other diseases, and often accompanied by facial fever, flushing on the face and nose, fatigue, irritability, poor sleep, dry stool and so on. Combined with modern medicine, dehydration can directly affect six diseases: constipation, asthma, allergy, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases and so on.

Therefore, summer health care focuses on hydrating. On average, a person needs 1.8 liters of water every day, and the direct drinking water should reach more than 1.2 liters. If you feel dry after drinking water, you should continue to drink and go to the toilet.

Before talking about the reason, let's introduce a concept-body fluid. Body fluid is mainly composed of water and contains a lot of nutrients. Body fluid is one of the basic substances that constitute the human body and maintain life activities. After water is absorbed into the body, it participates in metabolism in the form of body fluids, and the products of metabolism and excess water are excreted in the form of urine.

When the nutritional balance in the body is broken, the water content in the body fluid will also change. When the water content in body fluids is insufficient to provide human metabolism, people will feel thirsty. Experts of epidemic febrile diseases believe that "a minute of body fluid is a minute of vitality". Therefore, it is very important to replenish water and protect body fluids in treatment and health preservation.

When you can't quench your thirst, it's time for you to change the way you replenish water. The following are some common ways to replenish water and protect body fluids:

1, drink a cup of honey water before going to bed and a cup of light salt water after getting up in the morning to make up for the water lost at night.

2, eat a pear before going to bed, because the pear is clear, to prevent you from getting angry.

3, you can also drink some mung bean soup every day, and the effect is also very good. Or drink a bowl of egg soup (with some sugar), and the effect is also very good.

4. Eat more porridge and replace water with soup.

If the above conventional methods are slow or ineffective for you, you can try the following more advanced methods according to your own situation-homemade soup:

1, sweet and cold combined with salty and cold products: Shashen Maidong decoction (Polygonatum odoratum, pollen, licorice, mulberry leaves, lentils), five-juice drink (Sydney, sucrose, horseshoe, reed rhizome, Ophiopogon japonicus juice), zengye decoction, and Sydney syrup;

2. For hyperhidrosis, asthma and thready pulse caused by both qi and yin injuries, Shengmai Powder and Sancai Decoction (Ginseng, Asparagus and Rehmannia) can be used;

3. If the number of pulse injuries caused by heat, qi and yin is weak, Qingshu Yiqi Decoction (Wang Meng British side: Ginseng, Dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, Watermelon, Bamboo Leaves, Rhizoma Coptidis, Anemarrhena, Glycyrrhiza) and Bamboo Leaves Gypsum Decoction (Faxia, Ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Glycyrrhiza) can be used;

4. For those with insomnia, thirst and rapid pulse due to excessive fire due to yin deficiency, Huanglian Ejiao Chicken Yellow Decoction and Lianmei Decoction (Huanglian, Mume, Ophiopogon japonicus, Radix Rehmanniae and Ejiao) can be used.

The following two situations are relatively complicated: the tongue is crimson, without coating and cracks, which belongs to yin deficiency and thirst quenching in traditional Chinese medicine; The tongue is red, fat, with teeth marks and white or thick yellow fur, which belongs to the syndrome of spleen and stomach dampness and depression in traditional Chinese medicine. Both cases can be treated with Chinese medicine.

Of course, diabetes, hyperthyroidism and other diseases may also cause "thirst", so when the above methods are not applicable to you, you can consider going to the hospital for examination.