When the weather is dry, we often feel thirsty. The lips and skin are dry and molted. This is caused by the lack of water in the body. Drinking water properly can be alleviated. But if you drink much water and still feel thirsty, you should be alert to the following diseases.
1. Oral disease
Oral chronic submandibular gland inflammation, mumps, oral gland stones, and other diseases can lead to oral glandular lesions and reduce salivary secretion, resulting in dry mouth symptoms; and much elderly tissue and function decline, oral glands Atrophy reduces salivation and also causes dry mouth.
The occurrence of oral diseases should be promptly diagnosed and treated. The dry mouth of the elderly is a physiological dry mouth. You can go to the stomatology department for a specialist examination. You should also pay attention to oral hygiene and keep your mouth clean.
2. Diabetes
"Drinking, polyuria, eating more and losing weight" is a typical symptom of diabetic patients. Polyuria is the cause of polydipsia, and polydip is the result of polyuria. That is to say, diabetic patients are often thirsty and have to drink more water because of too much urine.
When the blood sugar of a diabetic patient rises, the human body has to discharge excess sugar through the urine in order to protect himself, so that the amount of urine caused by high blood sugar is significantly increased. The increase in urine volume will inevitably lead to a large loss of water in the body, forming a pathological phenomenon of "dehydration" of the body. When the body is dehydrated, it will feel thirsty by physiological conditions.
So you still feel thirsty when you drink water all the time. you have to pay attention to whether your blood sugar is too high.
3. Sjogren's syndrome
Sjogren's syndrome is a chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease mainly involving exocrine glands. It mainly affects lacrimal glands and salivary glands. The patient's manifestations are dry eyes and dry mouth.
The patient feels dry and dry because of salivary gland lesions, which causes the lack of salivary mucin. In severe cases, the oral mucosa, teeth and tongue are sticky, so that you need to drink frequently when you speak, and you must bring water or food to the solid food.
Saliva has the effect of cleansing the mouth. Patients with Sjogren's syndrome should always pay attention to keeping the mouth clean, diligently digesting, and reducing the possibility of dental caries and secondary infections.
4. Thirst caused by kidney disease
People with kidney disease often have symptoms of thirst. This is because the kidney has lost the ability to retain moisture and therefore requires a large amount of water. There are many kinds of kidney diseases, including pyelonephritis, glomerulonephritis, hydronephrosis, etc., which can cause thirst. The patient still feels thirsty when the amount of urine is reduced and edema is present.
The thirst that occurs in this case proves renal insufficiency. It is necessary to go to the nephrology clinic as soon as possible for symptomatic treatment. You should not use plenty of drinking water to solve the thirst caused by kidney disease.
Thirsty is important in dialectical differentiation. Clinically, thirst or not, drinking water, like hot drinks or cold drinks as a disease in the table, the disease is a cold, the disease is one of the important identification of the virtual.