Doctors often prescribe diuretics to eliminate excessive fluids as a way to reduce blood pressure – these medications are taken to decrease swelling in feet and hands (this condition is called edema).
Actually there are 2 things wrong with this.
1. Dehydration is really dangerous, and artificial diuretics remove more water than your body can afford to be lost.
2. Diuretic drugs flush out about 16 important minerals and vitamins.
These minerals and vitamins are necessary for your body to have a normal blood pressure. Additionally, the lack of these minerals and vitamins will aggravate other diseases.
For example, lack of manganese produces high cholesterol, hypertension, pancreatic damage, tremors, rapid pulse. Zinc deficiency can provoke high cholesterol and also reduce the immunity, as well as give a propensity to such a disease as diabetes. Each vitamin flushed out by chemical diuretics flush is very crucial and essential for our health.
The health column in a local newspaper has carried a question from one man who has suffered from hypertension for years, and his doctor changed the medicine and prescribed diuretics for him. And this resulted in hypertension.
The doctor said that some diuretics may increase blood sugar and cause diabetes in some cases. These medications can as well raise the levels of uric acid and provoke a gout attack.
The doctor stated that Atenolol, which the man was prescribed, is a very controversial treatment in terms of its effects.
Actually the damage diuretics cause may be far-reaching. They can increase blood pressure to really dangerous levels. Besides they can bring about water retention they are actually to lower.
Many physicians tell the patients to decrease water and different fluids amounts. But it is a mistake. Firstly, dehydration results in many other ailments that nobody wants to have. Secondly, water is in fact the best diuretic – as a partial reason your body retains water is dehydration. Some doctors can advise to eliminate salt – but this is also a mistake.
The best option to lower edema and to keep the levels of blood sugar under control is to assist the body in removing the toxins. It is beneficial to drink ten glasses of water every day, together with Celtic sea salt (one teaspoon).
This method is very effective because Celtic sea salt and water can keep the blood as well as kidneys clean, and can normalize oxygen levels in the heart and some other vital body organs.