Is it possible to lose weight from diuretics: expert opinion
'13.03.2018'
Source: WMJ
To which only victims do not go girls in pursuit of a perfect body. One of these methods is diuretic pills. How harmful is it and is it possible to use such a method at all?
WMJ asked the doctor. Irina Yudina, rehabilitologist, doctor of sports medicine, clinic of restorative medicine "Quality of Life", exercise therapy answered the questions.
With the help of diuretics, we can lose a large amount of fluid. Unfortunately, the effect of losing weight on such a scale turns into not only the loss of fluid, but also a large number of trace elements necessary for our body. Especially those trace elements that are responsible for the transmission of impulse from the nerve to the muscle, from muscle to nerve. Accordingly, patients who sit on diuretics are usually apathetic, lethargic, non-energetic. Therefore, the intake of diuretics should always be accompanied by the concomitant intake of trace elements. Potassium, especially magnesium, sodium and chlorine are vital and essential trace elements.
Excess fluid is excellent as a result of osteopathic lymphatic drainage techniques, such as a special massage.
Athletes also remove the liquid by drying. This is a whole system and methodology. For the most part, it is based on the fact that the amount of fat in food, both animal and vegetable, is significantly reduced. But some fats should be present, as they are sources of vitamins and hormones. You can leave nuts, chicken breast or turkey in the diet, they are practically devoid of fat. Also cucumbers, rice, cereals, cottage cheese in the morning. Plus you need intense fat burning workout on the background of this diet.
Weight loss with diuretics is contraindicated for everyone!
If there is a wrong work of special hormones responsible for water-salt metabolism, then by drinking diuretic drugs, you can harm health. In addition, the swelling will still remain. The only thing we can advise is diuretic fees, which are sold in pharmacies, or caffeine - one or two cups of coffee. Especially without eating. All tonic teas have a diuretic effect.
Taking diuretics can not be combined, most likely with antihypertensive drugs. Since the vessels expand and the pressure decreases, the water also comes out, you can faint. If suddenly a person decided to sit on diuretic preparations, then it is necessary to eat dried fruits, as they contain potassium, magnesium, this at least guarantees the restoration of the necessary trace elements.
I very often encounter the fact that patients without doctor's prescriptions consider it useful to drink one or two pills of a diuretic drug and see nothing strange in this.
Uncontrolled reception of such funds is very dangerous, it is really a problem. It is not recommended to interfere with the microelement composition, it is possible to lose those microelements that are responsible for the transmission of impulses, and this is the tone, the work of the heart muscle and muscle vessels in general. Of course, about any recommendation diuretic speech and not talking. We can recommend the B vitamins, and then carefully, since overdosing is even fraught with useful elements. They must be taken under the supervision of a specialist.
By the way, if the issue of drying among athletes is considered from a medical point of view, then I would say that we need to do this very carefully. Athletes are dried only during the competition period to show the most beautiful body.
Of course, when there are no bodybuilding or fitness bikini competitions, they are not engaged in drying, because this is quite a serious blow to the human body, because the level of body fat decreases. And fats are a building material for nervous tissue, for hormones and vitamins. Fats are necessary for the life of the body. No wonder girls who reduce fat in the diet, hair fall out, nails break, dry skin. In addition, drying and the lack of a sufficient amount of fat in the diet can lead to impaired fertility.
