Drinking a lot of water for diabetes has certain benefits, but for diabetic nephropathy, diabetes-induced heart failure and other conditions should not drink too much water.
Drinking more water can reduce the blood viscosity in the patient’s body, can prevent the occurrence of cardiovascular disease, but also can increase the amount of urine, promote the discharge of urinary glucose, so to a certain extent can play a role in controlling blood sugar.
However, for patients with diabetic nephropathy, especially to reach the uremic stage, oliguria or anuria symptoms, or diabetic cardiovascular lesions, especially the emergence of heart failure accompanied by edema and other conditions need to limit the amount of water, should not drink more water, will aggravate the condition.
Diabetic patients should be standardized treatment under the guidance of a doctor, according to their own situation to determine the amount of water, you can go to the hospital to consult, under the guidance of a specialist to assess the amount of water.