Why can t you drink water before bed

1. Can you drink water before going to bed?

It is not advisable to drink too much water before going to bed, but you can take two sips, especially for the elderly. When a person is asleep, the blood becomes more viscous due to the loss of water in the body, which causes the water in the blood to decrease. Drinking some water before going to bed can reduce blood viscosity, thereby reducing the risk of cerebral thrombosis.

In addition, during the dry autumn and winter seasons, water can also moisturize the respiratory tract and help people sleep better.

However, it is not advisable to drink a lot of water before going to bed, drinking a lot of water will cause frequent waking up at night, which will affect sleep, so drink water in moderation, and it is not recommended that you drink a lot of water before going to bed.

You can drink a glass of water half an hour before going to bed and go to the toilet again before going to bed, which can not only replenish the lack of water in the body, but also ensure that you do not stay up at night and will not affect your sleep. Drinking too much water before going to bed will affect sleep, generally speaking, it is suitable to drink 200 ml of water before going to bed, which is not too much, just to replenish the missing water in the body and will not cause frequent waking up at night, causing an impact on sleep.

3. Suitable for people who drink water before going to bed:

For patients with severe kidney failure and those on dialysis**, drinking plenty of water before bed will increase the load of water in the body, which may lead to edema and even heart failure. And people with poor heart function are also at risk of heart failure if they drink too much water before bedtime.

For people with poor heart and kidney function, it is recommended not to drink a lot of water before going to bed. However, the average person should not drink water before going to bed, but for others, just enough water at night is good and healthy.

For some cardiovascular and cerebrovascular patients and some elderly people, if they do not drink water all night, their blood viscosity will increase, and if the blood is excessively viscous and concentrated, it is easy to lead to thrombosis and induce the occurrence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases (such as angina, myocardial infarction, cerebral thrombosis, etc.). Therefore, for people at high risk of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, they can drink a glass of water before going to bed and when they get up at night to dilute blood concentration and reduce the incidence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.

In addition, for diabetics, maintaining a certain amount of water is also beneficial for blood sugar control.

Drink water before going to bed and be prone to edema the next day; It's also easy to go to the toilet in the middle of the night, and it's so cold in winter.

Drinking water is the way the living body ingests water through the mouth, and the body ingests about 2 liters of fluid through the mouth every day. Water is mainly absorbed in the small intestine, and after entering the human body, water is mainly used to replenish intracellular fluid and extracellular fluid, and participates in various physiological activities of the human body.