Drinking Water with Hepatitis C Treatment

Drinking Water with Hepatitis C Treatment

There all mutliple benefits to drinking water. Take that to the 10th power when talking about Drinking Water with Hepatitis C Treatment . If you are on treatment, drinking water can bring enormous relief to many side effects.

Here is a simple formula to calculate approximately how much you should drink. Take your weight and divide it by 2, which for me means 60-70 ounces of water per day. When I was on treatment there were days when more than that was consumed for sure. This was especially true during the 12 weeks of Telaprevir. I kept a case of water in my car and in my classroom. By re-using one bottle at least 4 times, I was doing my part for the environment. I simply counted how many times it was refilled.

There were days when confusion hit and a tally of water bottles was the furthest thing from my mind. When I began to experience severe side effects, one quick check of my water intake usually gave me the clue that more was needed. When in doubt, I drank another bottle just to be sure.

Side effects that are relieved by consuming adequate amounts of Drinking Water with Hepatitis C Treatment are:

 Nausea – Believe me, I know when you are sick the last thing you want is anything at all on your stomach. Try sipping water at room temperature. Sometimes cold water can make nausea worse, especially if you have varices in your esophagous or stomach. I think it brought on spasms at times for me. Try sipping slowly. Let it settle and then try more. Your symptoms can get worse if you become dehydrated. Refer to my tummy troubles if you are too ill to drink H2O. I have been unable to find research on this, but it was my feeling that the water diluted the medications somewhat and allowed me to absorb them more easily. If they just sat on my stomach, I usually felt worse.

Skin Problems – There was such a direct response to drinking water that I knew the skin rash, itchiness, dry skin, scalp problems, and even facial eczema were relieved by hydration. This proved effective over and over.

Aches and Flu Like Symptoms – When your joints ache and it seems that even your hair hurts, drink more water. We all have these ideas in our heads. Who knows the validity of this next statement: When there is not enough lubrication in the joints, they hurt more. Laugh if you want. But drink plenty of water when dealing with muscle and joint aches. Doesn’t it make sense that the medications settle into our muscles? I know that even by forcing myself to go through beginner’s yoga poses and stretching, I felt better. Add to the relief by following it up with a big glass of water.

* A major obstacle may be that awful metallic taste in your mouth. It changes the way everything goes down. I added lemon, ginger tea, agave syrup, and an assortment of other strange things to water in an effort to make it more palatable. Did it work? Sometimes. Mostly, it gave me the jump start that I needed to get a drink.

*Toward the end of treatment, when the Ribavirin was accumulated in my body, the amount of water I drank reached 80-100 ounces per day. I look at pics and see how puffy my face was. I remember going up on my diuretics, like Lasix and Spironolactone to insure that ascites was not forming. But I did not restrict water consumption.

*Can you drink too much? My research indicated that you can. I never went above 100 oz a day. I stayed in that 60-80 oz range pretty faithfully.

Water is essential to life. It brings many images with it of cleansing, satisfying, cool, refreshing. Consider using an image of a mirage when you drink. You are tired. You are on a long journey.

Your body is parched. Your mind is confused. Rest. Drink. Feel the refreshment. You are working hard to get rid of a deadly virus. Allow water to be one of the tools that can help you.

With your success in mind, I am your best friend in the battle, Karen:)

Stefan Brenner liquid art