json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["health"],"appCategory":"health","appTitle":"How much water do we really need to drink daily?","appBody":"<p>The answer to this question varies from person to person and from situation to situation. If you want to standardize an answer, it would be the volume of water necessary to keep a serum sodium concentration of about 140 mEq/L. During the summer, exercise or while having fever, the insensible losses of water (evaporation through the skin and breathing out water vapor) are higher than normal, so more water is needed for replacement. People who form kidney stones, need to drink more water to dilute the urine and to reduce the stone formation. On the contrary, people who have heart failure, or increased ADH in their system product of cancer, infection or dehydration have kidneys which retain water and drinking too much water can lead to water intoxication or hyponatremia (low sodium concentration). To summarize, the answer is: IT DEPENDS...</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"pkswfkrap","appParentAuthor":"littymumma","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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