In these days when the season changes rapidly, the body's water loss increases... Insufficient water consumption causes problems such as urinary tract infection, urinary crystals, kidney stones, low blood pressure and disruption of the body's water-electrolyte balance. Drinking insufficient water causes the urine color excreted from the kidneys darken and the urine to become concentrated, resulting in the formation of kidney stones. 

It also causes salt retention in the body. Your doctor may have warned you about this situation many times, asking how much salt you consume. The real problem here is not that you consume too much salt, but that when you consume less water, it increases the salt accumulation in the body in order to maintain the body's internal balance. Meanwhile; In fact, the opposite possibility is also valid. If you sweat excessively and only drink water, the body's balance is disrupted in favor of water, as the kidneys will excrete salt while excreting water, and salt loss through sweat will be added to this. Blood pressure drops, severe weakness and a condition called sunstroke occur. Our recommendation for this is to maintain balanced water and mineral consumption. Ask yourself… Are you drinking enough water and mineral water?

Cüneyt Tuğrul MD General Surgeon