Aunt Yang, a citizen, recently found that her 12-year-old son was constipated. After taking him to the doctor, she asked him to drink a cup of light saline every morning according to the doctor’s advice. Subsequently, the son’s constipation symptoms were significantly improved. Aunt Yang said happily, “it’s amazing. It’s better to drink some salt water.” In this regard, nutrition experts said that drinking warm boiled water in the morning is beneficial to health, and it is appropriate to supplement light saline for constipation patients after getting up in the morning.
drink water after getting up in the morning to help the body detoxify
Zeng Jing, director of the Nutrition Department of the Guangdong Armed Police Corps Hospital, said that most citizens have heard of the saying of drinking boiled water in the morning, but they know very little about the truth. Drinking warm boiled water after getting up has a direct and good effect on human health, because after a night of sleep, the body is very short of water and needs to be hydrated. At the same time, all parts of the human body are detoxifying during sleep. After drinking warm boiled water in the morning, the detoxifying substances are discharged from the body with water as the carrier, which promotes the circulation of kidney function.
1 cup of light saline to deal with constipation
For citizens with constipation symptoms, warm boiled water should be replaced with light saline. Zeng Jing introduced, “salt has the function of clearing fire and disinfecting. It has a direct effect on improving constipation by forming the habit of drinking light saline every day.” However, healthy people only need to drink warm boiled water in the morning, and do not blindly supplement saline. “The purpose of drinking water is to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, but if we drink too much saline, there will be too much sodium in the body, which will be harmful to health.” Drinking light saline in the morning is also not suitable for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients, because the salt in the water has the risk of raising blood pressure.
experts remind: don’t drink water until your mouth is dry
In addition, Zeng Jing reminded the public that many people only remember that they need to drink water when their mouths are dry and their tongues are dry, which is wrong. “When you feel dry, in fact, your body is seriously water deficient.” In fact, the human body’s feeling of thirst will gradually weaken with the growth of age, and the elderly have the worst feeling of thirst. Therefore, it is important to learn to judge whether their body is short of water. Zeng Jing introduced that “the most intuitive feature is to observe the color of urine”. If the urine is light yellow, the body function is normal, but if it is slightly yellow or even deeper, it may indicate that they need to drink more water.
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