Heart Attacks and Water

[jujubeans]

HEART ATTACKS AND WATER !
How many folks do you know who say they don't want to drink anything before going to bed because they'll have to get up during the nig...ht.
Heart Attack and Water - I never knew all of this ! Interesting.......
Something else I didn't know ... I asked my Doctor why people need to urinate so much at night time. Answer from my Cardiac Doctor - Gravity holds water in the lower part of your body when you are upright (legs swell). When you lie down and the lower body (legs and etc) seeks level with the kidneys, it is then that the kidneys remove the water because it is easier. This then ties in with the last statement!
I knew you need your minimum water to help flush the toxins out of your body, but this was news to me. Correct time to drink water...
Very Important. From A Cardiac Specialist!
Drinking water at a certain time maximizes its effectiveness on the body
2 glasses of water after waking up - helps activate internal organs
1 glass of water 30 minutes before a meal - helps digestion
1 glass of water before taking a bath - helps lower blood pressure
1 glass of water before going to bed - avoids stroke or heart attack
I can also add to this... My Physician told me that water at bed time will also help prevent night time leg cramps. Your leg muscles are seeking hydration when they cramp and wake you up with a Charlie Horse.
Mayo Clinic Aspirin Dr. Virend Somers, is a Cardiologist from the Mayo Clinic, who is lead author of the report in the July 29, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Most heart attacks occur in the day, generally between 6 A.M. and noon. Having one during the night, when the heart should be most at rest, means that something unusual happened. Somers and his colleagues have been working for a decade to show that sleep apnea is to blame.
1. If you take an aspirin or a baby aspirin once a day, take it at night.
The reason: Aspirin has a 24-hour "half-life"; therefore, if most heart attacks happen in the wee hours of the morning, the Aspirin would be strongest in your system.
2. FYI, Aspirin lasts a really long time in your medicine chest, for years, (when it gets old, it smells like vinegar).
Please read on...
Something that we can do to help ourselves - nice to know. Bayer is making crystal aspirin to dissolve instantly on the tongue.
They work much faster than the tablets.
Why keep Aspirin by your bedside? It's about Heart Attacks.
There are other symptoms of a heart attack, besides the pain on the left arm. One must also be aware of an intense pain on the chin, as well as nausea and lots of sweating; however, these symptoms may also occur less frequently.
Note: There may be NO pain in the chest during a heart attack.
The majority of people (about 60%) who had a heart attack during their sleep did not wake up. However, if it occurs, the chest pain may wake you up from your deep sleep.
If that happens, immediately dissolve two aspirins in your mouth and swallow them with a bit of water.
Afterwards: - Call 911. - Phone a neighbor or a family member who lives very close by.- Say "heart attack!" - Say that you have taken 2 Aspirins.
Take a seat on a chair or sofa near the front door, and wait for their arrival and ...DO NOT LIE DOWN!
A Cardiologist has stated that if each person after receiving this e-mail, sends it to 10 people, probably one life could be saved!
I have already shared this information. What about you?
Do forward this message. It may save lives!
"Life is a one time gift"

 

[Turtle]

The original version of this e-mail, from 2004, contained some misleading information and bad advice, but as this piece had evolved people have continued to add more and more misleading information and even badder advice. The whole thing about gravity and water and kidneys would imply that whoever wrote that not only doesn't have a clue as to how the kidneys are wire up and work, but they are also a Star Trek fan and took to heart the alien comment that humans are "bags of mostly water," and thinks the water in our bodies just slosh around freely.

This particular iteration variation from 2010 is a combination of two "bad advice" emails, one about water, the other about aspirin, and contains not only some newly invented information, it's dangerous information. The heart is the least stressed when you are laying down, particularly when laying on your left side. It is the most stressed when standing or sitting up, so the advice of "do not lie down" is not only utterly retarded, it's dangerous. Apsirin doesn't have a "24 hour half-life," it's half life is actually 3 hours for a 300-650 mg dose, 5 hours for a 1 g dose and 9 hours for a 2 g dose. So taking an aspirin before going to bed is no different than taking one during the day. While the pain-killing and anti-inflammatory effects of aspirin only last about 3-5 hours, its effects on the blood's platelets (thinning blood and helping platelets from sticking together) lasts about 7 to 10 days.

Also, most heart attacks happen within the first three hours of waking up and getting on with your day, not in the wee hours of the morning as this e-mail suggests.

The Mayo Clinic issued a statement regarding this e-mail (Misleading Aspirin Email | Mayo Clinic News)

And, of course, Snopes is all over it.

And, and, if I've said it once I've said it a thousand times, if an e-mail tells you to send the message to 10 people (or everyone in your address book or everyone you know)... DON'T. Telling you to forward this message to x-number of people is the largest, loudest and truest red flag known to man that what you are about to send to people is a load of crap.

 

[jujubeans]

My favorite fact checker..*lol*..I still think drinking lots of water is good for you!

 

[Turtle]

My favorite fact checker..*lol*..I still think drinking lots of water is good for you!

Of course it's good for you. Water is the principle chemical component of the body and makes up about 60 percent of our body weight. Every system in the body depends on water to function properly.

Depending on many factors, including altitude, whether it's extremely cold, hot or dry, your body weight, the amount of exercise you do daily, the amount of water you should drink varies a lot. But, according to the Mayo Clinic and the Institute of Medicine, the average adequate intake for an adult male should roughly 3 liters (13 cups), and 2.2 liters (9 cups) for a female. But that intake doesn't have to be in the form of "glasses of water." About 20% of the water you intake comes from food. The rest can come from glasses of water, or coffee, tea, Gatorade, Pepsi, milk, whatever beverage you like. Water is certainly a healthier beverage than is, say, Pepsi, but water is water regardless of the form it comes in. Your body will put it to good use.

The best advise I've ever read or heard is the same, exact advice I instinctively followed when I was a little kid - if you are thirsty, drink something.

 

[jujubeans]

Of course it's good for you. Water is the principle chemical component of the body and makes up about 60 percent of our body weight. Every system in the body depends on water to function properly.

Depending on many factors, including altitude, whether it's extremely cold, hot or dry, your body weight, the amount of exercise you do daily, the amount of water you should drink varies a lot. But, according to the Mayo Clinic and the Institute of Medicine, the average adequate intake for an adult male should roughly 3 liters (13 cups), and 2.2 liters (9 cups) for a female. But that intake doesn't have to be in the form of "glasses of water." About 20% of the water you intake comes from food. The rest can come from glasses of water, or coffee, tea, Gatorade, Pepsi, milk, whatever beverage you like. Water is certainly a healthier beverage than is, say, Pepsi, but water is water regardless of the form it comes in. Your body will put it to good use.

The best advise I've ever read or heard is the same, exact advice I instinctively followed when I was a little kid - if you are thirsty, drink something.

And I'm drinking a lot this morning as I'm doing yard work and I'm hot and can taste the sweat on my lips...2 coffees, 2 big mugs of ice tea and am now sipping on a diet coke. oh yeah..I'm hydrating!

 

[Moot]

And I'm drinking a lot this morning as I'm doing yard work and I'm hot and can taste the sweat on my lips...2 coffees, 2 big mugs of ice tea and am now sipping on a diet coke. oh yeah..I'm hydrating!

I hate to be a buzz kill. The problem with coffee, ice tea and diet coke is they all contain caffeine and caffeine is a diuretic. You should include water in your hydration regimen.

 

[jujubeans]

I hate to be a buzz kill. The problem with coffee, ice tea and diet coke is they all contain caffeine and caffeine is a diuretic. You should include water in your hydration regimen.

Coffee and coke are in the caffeine family...but mint tea isn't..and lordy Moot...I need the coffee in the morning!

 

[Moot]

..and lordy Moot...I need the coffee in the morning!

Me too and the diet Coke, but I also include water. In the summer I mix powered Gatorade into bottled water. As your next door neighbor from the land of 10,000 lakes, I know water.

 

[cheri1122]

I didn't need Snopes to debunk the bunk about leg cramps [the one part I didn't have any real knowledge of], because I get leg cramps whenever I drive a lot without benefit of cruise control. Major delays in construction and/or rush hour cause leg cramps, lol.
I don't like water, so I compromise & use lots of ice in my caffeinated drinks.