The weather is so hot that even drinking a lot of water can’t quench my thirst. What should I do?

Mild dehydration symptoms include dry mouth, dry nose, dry skin, thirst, and dry stools. Lack of water in summer can easily lead to incoordination between body temperature and outdoor temperature, loss of body fluids, and electrolyte imbalance. If dehydration in the body is not corrected in time but continues to worsen, it will cause some substance metabolism disorders in the body, induce and aggravate some diseases, such as stomach problems, bad breath, abnormal blood lipids, atherosclerosis, increased blood pressure and other diseases, which are often accompanied by Some symptoms include facial heat, facial and nose flushing, fatigue, irritability, poor sleep, dry stool, etc. Combined with modern medicine, dehydration can directly affect six major diseases: constipation, asthma, allergies, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, autoimmune diseases, etc.

Therefore, the key to maintaining health in summer is to replenish water. A person needs an average of 1.8 liters of water per day, and direct drinking water should reach more than 1.2 liters. If you drink water and your mouth still feels dry, then you keep drinking and going to the toilet.

Before talking about the reasons, we need to introduce a concept - body fluid. Body fluid is mainly composed of water and contains a large amount 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 fluid, and the products of metabolism and excess water are excreted from the body in the form of urine.

When the balance of nutrients in the body is broken, the water content in the body fluid will also change. When the water content in the body fluid is not enough to provide the body's metabolic needs, the feeling of "thirst" will occur. Febrile diseases experts believe that "every minute of body fluid stored means a certain amount of vitality." Therefore, replenishing water and maintaining body fluids are very important in treating diseases and maintaining health.

When you can’t quench your thirst, you should try another way to replenish water. Here are some regular ways to replenish water and maintain body fluids:

1. Drink a cup of honey water before going to bed. After getting up, drink a glass of light salt water to replenish the water lost during the night.

2. Eat a pear before going to bed, because pears clear away internal heat and prevent you from getting internal heat.

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 (add some sugar), 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 based on your own situation - homemade soup:

1. Sweet and cold combined with salty and cold Products: Adenophora and Ophiopogon japonicus soup (polygonati, pollen, licorice, mulberry leaves, lentils), five juice drink (snow pear, sucrose, water chestnut, reed root, Ophiopogon japonicus juice), Zengye soup, snow pear pulp;

2. For those with excessive sweating, asthma, and fine pulse due to damage to both Qi and Yin, Shengmai Powder and Sancai Decoction (ginseng, asparagus, and rehmannia glutinosa) can be used;

3. Summer heat, Qi and Yin damage For those with injured and weak pulses, you can use Qingshu Yiqi Decoction (Wang Mengying's prescription: American ginseng, dendrobium, Ophiopogon japonicus, watermelon, bamboo leaves, coptis, Anemarrhena, licorice), Bamboo Leaf Gypsum Decoction (Faxia, ginseng, Ophiopogon japonicus, Licorice);

4. For those with insomnia, thirst, and thready pulse due to yin deficiency and excessive fire, you can use Coptis Ejiao Chicken Decoction, Lianmei Decoction (coptis, black plum, Ophiopogon japonicus, raw rehmannia, donkey hide gelatin), etc.

The following two situations are relatively complicated: a red tongue with no coating and cracks, which is a yin deficiency and thirst disease in traditional Chinese medicine; a red tongue with fat and tooth marks and white or thick yellow coating Grease belongs to the traditional Chinese medicine concept of dampness stagnating the spleen and stomach. These two situations can be treated by traditional Chinese medicine.

Of course, diseases such as diabetes and hyperthyroidism may also cause you to be "thirsty" all the time, so if the above methods are not applicable to you, you can consider going to the hospital for a physical check-up.