What are Diuretics?
Review – What are Diuretics?
Pharmaceutical products, diuretics have influences to our bodies especially in curing diseases, removing toxins and losing weight. However, the use of diuretics in losing weight causes dispute on the cons and pros of the substance in the effectiveness as well as the side effects. Therefore, no wonder if today there are more and more people want to know what are diuretics? Since diuretics can be found easily in many pharmacies, it is interesting to know whether they are truly beneficial and how to take the best use of them. Our review here is aimed to let you know more about diuretics without giving bias opinions about them.
So, what are diuretics? Diuretics are a group of substances or a class of drugs or products increasing the urine flow in our body by stimulating the kidneys. The products work by depleting sodium, chloride dissolved in water from the body through urine. In turn, from the body the sodium and chloride will draw the excess water. The term of balance is important for our body. If the depletion of potassium, chloride and water can be tolerated by our body, then there should be no related health issues will appear.
However, if such balance is no longer compromised by the body, some health problems like renal failure. Another health problem related with excess removal of sodium and chloride is the reduced blood’s output from the heart. On the other hand, when there is not enough sodium removal while there is greater intake of the substance, some health cases like pulmonary edema, edema, and high blood pressure will occur due to fluid overload. The value of diuretic products lies on their application in treating patients with high blood pressure and this is all proven by large scale clinical trials.
An explanation about the influence of diuretics for weight loss is important In order to answer the question: what are diuretics? The use of diuretics for weight loss however is not recommended and in fact is forbidden by most physicians due to the side effects. In addition to the unexpected side effects, diuretics seem only show temporary results on weight loss.
Therefore, for those who want to get long term weight loss there is too little that diuretics can do. They only can initiate the weight loss process and that is it. It is also found that the practice of taking diuretic products have been abused by bulimic patients. It is considered as a sign of eating disorder to take diuretics to lose weight.
Not only the diuretics affect the level of sodium and chloride in blood but also other minerals and vitamins in our body. Some researches show that the level several minerals and vitamins like calcium, zinc and vitamin D in the blood of our body are affected by the diuretics. That brings recommendation from physicians to take supplement of those possibly depleted minerals when someone takes diuretics. The supplements can take forms as drinking orange juice or eating banana as well as potassium tablet supplement.
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