@dks Over the past few years, I have read several articles on consuming too much water over a short period of time, especially if you are a CKD patient. We need minerals in our bodies such as sodium, potassium, phosphorous, etc. to balance our nourishment requirements. If as a CKD patient, for example, we drink too much water in a short period of time, we may deplete some of these chemicals that our bodies need with unfavorable consequences. The article I have included in this post from the National Kidney Foundation points out that too much water can result in a condition called hyponatremia as it relates to lower sodium levels. Those consequences can include kidney or heart failure among others.

Within the past two years as I have mentioned many times before, my docs prescribed to me two different kinds of diuretics, one of which was Farxiga which is heavily advertised on TV a lot. Both caused my eGFR to go down rapidly and for the first time in my life I was seeing double and very dehydrated. This is why it is so important to follow your lab trends.

So here is a short article from National Kidney Foundation that I find to be reputable...https://www.kidney.org/content/6-tips-be-water-wise-healthy-kidneys

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