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I just drink it a little more often than when I'm actually thirsty. But I'm not healthy.

>>8056453
I don't know how much water you should be drinking, but I do know that the terms "meme" and "wive's tale" are not synonymous.

>>8056453

I drink about a 1-1.5 gallons of water a day, fucking love water.

Never really get headaches and my complexion is immaculate.

>>8056475
what about "wife's son's tale"? That's anonymouse with meme's, no?

You do need a significant amount of water every day but:

1. Your body signals thirst long before it would become a problem, dehydration is not a risk in any first world country unless you're in the wilderness and didn't plan ahead. It will be painfully obvious if you reach dangerous levels of dehydration.

2. A balanced diet will provide the vast majority, if not all, of the water you need every day. Water is in a lot of foods, in varying amounts.

So generally you don't need to worry about going out of your way to drink water, but opting for water over another drink to sate your thirst is definitely good for you.

Drinking water is actually a really good way to feel "energized". If you feel tired or sluggish, a lot of the time it really is that you're under hydrated.

>water
>alcohol
Why would you ever drink anything else?

>>8056502
you sir are a fucking retard. Do not listen to this idiot

>>8056453
it's just propaganda put out by the toilet industry to make sure people wear out their toilets and have to buy news ones.

>>8056502

I can't wait until it becomes mandatory for people to obtain a licence to use the internet.
You're offering dangerous opinions, anon.
Your body will be dehydrated to some extent long before you feel thirsty, which is why athletes are instructed to take on water at intervals when training and all training computers (watches, etc) will have programmable alerts to advise the athlete to take on water (or food).

So, yes. You definitely DO need to "go out of your way to drink water".

Glasses and cups are not the same thing. The recommendation is 8-10 CUPS per day, therefore about 2-2.5L. Standard glasses are about 500mL so actually the recommendation is 4-5 glasses per day.

>>8057465
That's what they want you to think. It's really propaganda put out by the gubberment to make you drink more of their mind-controlling chemicals.
>there's something in the water!

>>8056453
>Is drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day
>A) really beneficial, or
>B) just a meme?
A.

>>8056475
They are not synonymous because memes are not wives tales but it can be argued that wives tales are memes.

>>8056453
It is a meme. Not everyone needs the same amount of water. If you do a lot of exercise outdoors in the desert you are going to need way more water than if your a lazy fucker somewhere cool.
A good way to tell if you are drinking the right amount is your urine. It should be pale yellow. If its completely clear you are drinking too much. If its deep yellow you need to drink more.

>>8057516
dat fluoride

>>8056453
dumbest thread i have ever read

>>8057542

>not everyone needs the same amount of water

this.

>eat a big bowl of popcorn while watching a movie
>still feel hungry
>get up and drink a tall glass of water
>suddenly so full I can almost explode
Drinking lots of water helps you feel full so the McShill's want you to drink less so you'll think you're hungry and then get cravings for salty sugar (ie. fast food).

Drink more water.

>>8056469
That's actually pretty much what you should do (for most people at least). Body's pretty good at asking for what it needs, no need to force yourself to go for more.

>>8057497
>using outliers as an example for what ordinary people should do
Should most people be drinking gatorade all the time for those electrolytes too?

>>8057407
>>8057497
What if I get sudden strong urges to chug a fuckton of water? I drink ~64-96oz per day.

>drinking the liquid jew

you will piss more which hopefully means you'll move your fat ass around a little bit more.

Yes fucking do it. There is literally no downside you lazy fuck.

>>8057671
Well drinking TOO much means you can piss away valuable nutrients but it is very hard to do this. You basically need to be chugging more than a Gallon or two a day. If your piss comes out more clear than your tap you may be overdoing it. Keep going until its a faint off yellow. That's how much water you should drink a day.

>>8057497
Your the only retard here, newfig. You need to go out of your way to drink water if you're going to be doing lots of strenuous activity. If you're sitting around shitposting on 4chan drinking as you get thirsty is fine.

>>8057685
>Your the only retard here
*you're

>drinking as you get thirsty is fine.
You still don't get it. >>8057497
>Your body will be dehydrated to some extent long before you feel thirsty

Drink bleach. Never get thirsty!

>>8057678
more people are dehydrated than over hydrated The 8 glasses of water meme would do them some good. I personally drink way more because of exercise.

also who the fuck gets over hydrated, it's literally painful to try to drink 2 gallons of water per day.

It's a meme. Drink when you're thirsty. Most of the shit you eat has a significant amount of water in it anyway.

>>8057678
>Well drinking TOO much means you can piss away valuable nutrients
Shove a cork in it, moron. Your bladder doesn't absorb nutrients.

>>8056486
Stop

I used to drink around 50 oz. a day but I've since gone up to a solid 3 liters and it feels really good. It's great for the way your skin looks and making you feel full so it's also excellent for cutting.

does anyone else get uncomfortably bloated when they drink water? I tend to drink it in pints and i get really bloated.

It's a meme:

https://youtu.be/FwdqFHBaPwY

>>8056453
It is a meme. Most of the stuff you eat during the day anyway like fruit and soda already have water in them.

not as beneficial as activated almonds

All of this hate for drinking water is from the coke™ shills.

>>8058380
>drinking soda

There is no saving you.

drink so you have light colored pee
kidney stones suck

>>8056453
overcomplicating something simple as drinking water

>>8058574
I attended US Army Ranger school. They told us if our piss wasn't clear, we weren't drinking enough water.

Just drink until you stop being thirsty
And then drink when you feel thirsty again
And maybe drink a little bit extra before bed so you don't wake up too thirsty

This is such a basic thing that I'm starting to think there are people out there who lack the capacity to feel thirst

>>8056503
I can support this. If I don't drink water, I'll feel tired as shit, even if I'm not thirsty at all.

Water is YUMMY. If you drink less than 8 glasses a day your bully was right.

>>8056503
Also plain hot water sounds sad but it's a really nice cure from certain headaches. Something about how neck veins work. So tea form won't do.

>>8058371
Jesus christ, this guy is annoying as fuck.
And his scaremongering about overhydration is just as bad corporate scaremongering about dehydration.

>>8057497
>Comparing career athletes practicing all day outside to the general public who OP clearly is

You can seriously go each day drinking one glass of water and never even notice any issues regarding dehydration unless you have a hard labor or atheletics based career in which case it should be obvious that you want more.

>>8058590
I attended the Navy Seals Seal School and they told us that drinking water is bad for you and to enjoy a refreshing Coca-Cola(TM) instead

Excess water will make your blood vessels work harder, meaning brighter head and healthier life on the whole.
BUT if you water has a lot of limestone, you WILL fuck up your kidneys.

>>8056503
Agreed. I felt in the dumps every morning until I found out that I was slightly dehydrated. now a couple glasses at morning and it's all good

>>8058884
You're a riot.

RIP 14-91, Ranger 1-92. Pic related, my boy holding my class leader certificate.

>>8058914
>that guy who brings his stint in the military into every fucking discussion
no one cares that you made a dumb choice

>>8058914
Navy Seal anon here

I would fuck your son's cute little mouth

t. Navy Seal

>>8058920
Sorry I fucked your girlfriend.

>>8058929
>says the guy from the US army
>the organisation notorious for having their wives sleep around while on deployment

No

>>8058925
We provide him with toothpicks already.

>>8058934
I am literally masturbating to that picture of your child as we speak and have saved it for further use. Thanks my man.

>>8058948
Is /b/ too crowded today or what?

Nursefag here.
Unless you're sweating like a pig it's probably too much.
Too much water will in the long run damage your kidney's.

Just drink when you're thirsty; a healthy body can regulate it just fine.

>>8058974
>Too much water will in the long run damage your kidney's

No. That is far from correct, you poorly educated nincompoop. The only way that would be true is if you deluged yourself with water.

>>8058974
>nurse
Opinion discarded. Geneticist here OP. You want to be lacing your water with restriction enzymes and custom coded DNA to turn you into a superhuman. Any other answer is literally retarded.

I also was a Navy Seal so trust me I know what I'm talking about.

>>8058983
I apologise for the wayward apostrophe, but overhydration, longterm, definitely damages the kidneys, yes.
I'll be happy to compare educations with you on this matter, though.

For the sake of washing out waste you want to piss about a liter a day. For an average person that's three "full" bladders.

Unless you are brain damaged, septic, or very old you most likely don't need to force yourself to drink more than you feel like.

>>8058995
>I'll be happy to compare educations with you
You wouldn't come out on top, little BSN.

>>8059011
Don't leave us hanging; let's hear what makes you such an authority on hydration of all things.

>>8056453
8-10 glassses a day? That's just too much. Try 1 glass for every 3 days.

>>8059026
If I posted my credentials, you and everyone else would be up in arms, crying, "OMG, faker!"

I'm a microbiologist.

how much are the water companies paying you to shill water?

Drink distilled water. It's been fucking hot, I like to squeeze half a lime into the glass, fill it with ice cubes I've frozen from distilled water, then fill the glass with cold distilled water.

Unless you're one of those psychos who drinks water constantly out of a phobia of some kind and overwhelms your internal workings it's not going to be a problem. Water is good for you.

Not after an argument, that's just what I do. Avoid soda pop altogether. Don't get me started on "energy drinks". Just plain water, you can't get more plain than distilled water... drink plenty of it.

>>8058929
You're mistaken, as my girlfriend isn't a mans ass, rump ranger.

>>8059055
>distilled water
Do you deny women your essence?

yeah it's a meme

>>8059050
the pay is pretty low but they let me have all the water I can drink

>>8059080
your mom is a meme. A disappointed in her loser son kinda meme.

8-10 glasses "extra" is a meme

just have a couple of glasses to every meal and you'll be fine

>>8057647
Joke's on you, I use piss bottles.

>>8059092
please don't project anon

>>8059048
You don't work with actual practical human hydration every day then.
I'm with the nurse on this one.

>>8059157
You might be literally retarded if you think a nurse has more authority on this than a microbiologist does.

>>8058993
tasty 8/8

I hate when my piss is gold so I drink a fuckload of water til it becomes transparent, just like water

>>8059250
>microbiologist

>>8057407

No, actually he's right. Drink when you're thirsty and you'll be fine.

>>8058864
Out of curiosity, do you have a source for this? I don't understand why tea wouldn't do the same sort of job as plain hot water.

>>8058948
>>>/b/

>>8056453

There is nothing out there to support the claim that you need 8+ glasses of water per day. No independent studies, no peer-reviewed research.

You get thirsty before you're dehydrated, as well, meaning that you should simply drink when thirsty.

This covers it pretty well and has actual sources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWASUMMQjj8

>>8059274
Microbiologists are the most powerful race in the world.

>>8056480
>a 1-1.5 gallons

fuck you

>>8056802
If you added coffee, I'd agree

>>8056453
Too much is not good, you already get a good amount of water through food and other sources

>>8056453
for some reason, other anons have used the tautology "it depends on the person." this is true because almost any health/dietary advice follows this truthism.

the question is: is drinking 8-10 glasses of water a day really beneficial? the answer is: almost always—but when it's not, it's simply inefficient.

just drink the damn water, you dingus. make sure it's filtered or distilled if you happen to be tinfoil.

>>8058123
'go 'za and a wa la to you my good sir

>>8059509
>distilled water
>good

Well /ck/? What do you consider them?

>>8059509
>>8056453
this man is a bloody tard, take it from anyone with a relevant degree. drinking such amounts of water will just have you pissing alot and strains your kidneys. the bodies fluid and concentration levels are regulated by an insanely exotic concept called thirst.

tl;dr drink when you're thirsty unless you have a fever or diarrhea

>>8059590
also distilled water will give you mad shits dont drink it

>>8057546
Did you know the reason many European countries don't put fluoride in the water is not because it is dangerous to add to water, but fluoride occurs naturally in their water and a concentration even higher than artificially fluoridated water?

>>8058974
Nurse here, do not listen to this "nurse." He/she is an idiot.

Nurse person, do you not pay attention to what you hook people to IV with? I guarantee 7/10 times they need saline to prevent dehydration.

One of the top reasons people over 65 are admitted to the ER is dehydration.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/01/150114205703.htm

Oversaturating the kidneys? The fuck? You'd have to drink so much water in a short period of time to do that that you either would throw it up or be on MDMA.

>>8059627
Well guys if you're not going to listen to the microbiologist here is a nurse that actually knows his shit.

>>8059608
why do they fluoridate water?

>>8059899
to cork up ur 3rd eye so you don't become enlightened and say fugg the gubmint

>>8058371
>nu-male faggot
>LOOK I'M RIGHT BECAUSE SCIENCE SAYS SO
>LMAO LOOK AT THESE DRONES BELIEVING EVERYTHING BECAUSE SCIENCE SAYS SO
>OMG SCARY OVERHYDRATION IS THE TRUE KILLER
>WOW LOOK TOKEN DRIED UP LIBCUNT PROF SUPPORTING MY MORON OPINION

low key i'd fuck the shit out that professor

>>8059899
Because contrary to what chem trail anti-vaxxers think, it provides decent dental health.

And it already occurs naturally in higher concentrations in many water sources. Therefore, those don't add fluoride.

It's really not that hard to understand.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20480057
http://www.cdc.gov/fluoridation/faqs/bottled_water.htm

>>8059590
listen, asshole, i have a doctorate in neurobiology and i know that drinking *gasp* 9 glasses of water will not "strain your kidneys" or kill you.

you must be one of those retards who believes that sprite can quench your thirst, therefore your body doesn't need anymore water. go hang your dumb neck from a thick rope, because i can think of a dozen different reasons why someone would need to drink water without feeling thirsty.

>never thirsty
>end up with chapped lips and headaches if I don't consciously hydrate properly

What now, nu-male faggot?

>>8058882
If you're not exercising enough to want to drink more than a single glass of water each day then your problems go beyond the amount of water you drink every day.

Get up and move your body, fatty boomber.

>>8056453
Try 1 glass every 8-10 days. That'll be beneficial.

>>8059627
Did you miss the part, retard, where I specifically pointed out it might be different for the sick and elderly?

I work in a fucking ICU. Of course my patients don't regulate themselves.

There are plenty of studies showing long term, LONG TERM, damage to the the kidneys with proteinuria occurring even very early on.
Nobody said anything about "oversaturating"

>>8061256
>There are plenty of studies
Link to one. Just one.

I think you don't want to give your patients water because then you have to clean up their piss-soaked beds.

>>8059250
I'll take real experience over MUH LAB CONDITIONS any day no matter how you whine MUH DEGREE

Yes and no.

Water isn't healthy but you need it for hydration. It is unhealthy though to consume your daily water requirements in form of a sugar solution.

You could eat a lot of cucumbers and other food with a high water percentage and not need to drink as much water.

Also 8 glasses of water won't do any good when you drink them additionally to all the soda, sweetened coffee and tea or whatever else sugar water you drink.

>>8056453
>letting communist infiltrators sap and impurity your bodily fluids
I sure hope you guys don't do this

>>8061445
>water isn't healthy
Just fuck off, retard.

>>8056453

>>8061262
It's an ICU. They all have catheters.

>>8060033
>right because science says so
>moron opinion
These things don't make sense together.

>>8060033
If you think he's wrong, then check his sources.

>>8061445

> water isn't healthy

complete meme; you only need to drink water separately aside form food (most food ranges from 75-90% water in terms of mass) if you exercise rigorously. Drinking water otherwise just makes digestion harder (making you feel more tired) as it dilutes the enzymes and HCL in your stomach

>>8061485
>>8062193
It's a base requirement, not a source of health.

Saying water is healthy is like saying calories are healthy. You need them to survive but they aren't some special source of health.

There's water in your soda. Doesn't make the soda healthy.

>>8056502
>Your body signals thirst long before it would become a problem

That's wrong. If anything, by the time your body signals thirst it's already starting to get bad.

>>8062896
>>8057497

>That's wrong. If anything, by the time your body signals thirst it's already starting to get bad.
>Your body will be dehydrated to some extent long before you feel thirsty
gimme that source
cause I'm kinda thirsty right now

>>8056453
If you're a dumbass who doesn't drink regularly, then I guess 8-10 glasses is better than being dehydrated. Staying hydrated is beneficial as water is used for so many bodily processes. Just keep yourself hydrated.

>there are literally people on /ck/ who are advising not to drink that water because it's "unhealthy", and that it's better to do without

I can't tell if this is fedora-tier neckbeard willful ignorance, or just standard issue *chan contrarianism, but you should all neither breed nor vote regardless.

>>8061753
Unless you're in a fantasy setting, these things usually play a big part in science:

>ego
>needing results
>sponsor wants specific results
>being plain wrong because scientists are usually libcunts with no common sense

>>8062896
Lmao at idiots who say this. I've been thirsty literally thousands of times in my life. Nothing ever came of it. Hurr durr if you're thirsty it's already too late. If that's not a meme I don't know what is. Too late for what? Should I KMS if I ever experience thirst? Fuck right off Dilbert.

>>8063086
That's because you live in a comfy air conditioned box with water within your grasp and your exercise consists of driving to the gym where you pedal an exercise bike at low resistance while watching Mad Money on CNBC

Try any endurance-based outdoor sport and you'll find that waiting until you're thirsty to drink is a recipe for problems

>>8061699
>ICU
>Every single patient on catheter

Uh, no. Or your hospital is full of lazy shits. One of the top reasons for sepsis in hospitals is infection through a urinary catheter, therefore it is essential to only use when absolutely necessary. Otherwise, aided movement and bed pans should be used.
https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2047-2994-3-23

And you have yet to provide a link supporting your claims.

Dehydration is like bleeding, it is a condition that stems from another issue. Many many children have dehydration as why they are hospitalized too, due to diarrhea or vomiting.

http://www.emedicinehealth.com/script/main/mobileart-emh.asp?articlekey=59432

Drinking more water helped clear my skin so I got that going for me
I piss a lot more though so theres that

>>8056453
Just look at the color of your pee. If it's light yellow or clearer, you're good. If it's orange or darker, you need to drink more water.

>>8058974

what if I've been having 6 beers per day for the past couple years ;o

>>8058371
there is definitely lots of truth to what he's saying but my issues are as follows:
>1 fatties often are fat because they have poor eating and drinking habits from childhood and confuse hunger and thirst and eat when thirsty
>2 fatties drink lots of sugary diuretic drinks and encouraging lots of water is a good way to discourage this
>3 fatties are often a lil fat from retaining water and drinking lots of water causes you to not retain water as it is not treated as a valuable commodity by the body
>4 most people don't drink water because of sports cramps this is really like a faggy version of Penn & Teller vs bottled water/sports drinks

>inb4 some fatty tells me his wife's son died from drinking too much water and doing 20 pushups

>>8060006
I like you.

>>8056502
This is bullshit. If I listened to this I'd be getting splitting headaches from dehydration every day.

>>8060656
keep moving those goalposts, eventually youll say something thats right

I drink coffee in the morning, water during the day, and beer at night. Still try to get at least 80 oz of straight water in every day.

>>8056453
Its a meme. You drink when your thirsty.

>>8057671
You can overhydrate you fucking idiot

>>8064240
I do it like that and I'm fine

>>8064331
>I drink coffee in the morning,

good goy

No, water IS good for you. Your body is made of it. Technically you get an out half your required water from the food you eat. But it's definitely beneficial to drink a lot, too

>>8057678
>>8064500
You actually need to drink over 100 litres in less than 4 hours to be in danger of water poisoning. I don't think anyone outside of
"competitive eaters/drinkers" would ever do that.

>>8058055
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication#Pathophysiology
>At the onset of this condition, fluid outside the cells has an excessively low amount of solutes, such as sodium (hyponatremia) and other electrolytes, in comparison to fluid inside the cells, causing the fluid to move into the cells to balance its concentration.
>This causes the cells to swell. In the brain, this swelling increases intracranial pressure (ICP), which leads to the first observable symptoms of water intoxication: headache, personality changes, changes in behavior, confusion, irritability, and drowsiness.
Who the fuck said anything about the bladder? Believe it or not, water doesn't go straight from your throat to your bladder.

>>8056453
Your body contains 60% water. So 2-3 liters of water a day is optimal for adults.

>>8059050
Water is free if you don't live in a third world country why the fuck would we shill it?

>>8066032
>2-3 LITERS per day

what the fuck, just drink when you are thirsty

>>8056453
here's a tip, if you are thirsty try some water, if not - don't

>>8063920
>aided movement and bed pans should be used.
I don't think you know what an ICU is.

>>8059072
>Do you deny women your essence?

I share it every chance I get.

>>8066124
what the fuck, just sleep when you are tired
what the fuck, just eat when you are hungry
what the fuck, why get a 10/10 for a test when you can pass with a 5/10 score?

I drink water quite frequently and almost exclusively because I hate being dehydrated and having to deal with headaches. There's one problem though...

Does anyone else suffer from dry mouth unless you don't have a sip every hour? It's annoying.

>>8066207
I'm sorry to tell you this anon but you're addicted to water.

It's terminal.

>>8066207
When I drink too much water I get dry mouth.

Would be interested in having that explained.

>>8066147
I don't think you work in an ICU, or at least at a shitty hospital. No way more than half your patients are on urinary catheters unless you're in a specialized ICU in a renal specialty center or some shit. If it is routine for your general ICU to use urinary catheters, flee while you have a chance and seek employment elsewhere before shit goes down eventually.

Intravenous catheters yes, in the arm/hand/neck even.

Even rotary units don't have every patient on catheters.

>>8067178
Links related if you wanna read up
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK133354/
http://www.todaysgeriatricmedicine.com/archive/031912p14.shtml
http://www.geripal.org/2014/09/urine-catheters-in-hospital-bad-stuff.html?m=1

Don't be afraid to just pack up and leave, an RN or BSN is demanded in pretty much every state. I fled my own due to salaries lower than $38k and patient loads over 25. My clinicals at one point gave me one RN to assist and she had 47 patients.

So I fucking left rhe state.

It is vital to stay alive

Watch Adam conovers, Adam ruins everything. He has a clip on YouTube about water hydration you might like

>b-but overhydration
>8 glasses is too much you'll get overhydrated
>its bad for you
>muh overhydration

>>8067178
I think your ICU must have livelier patients than mine, buddy.
Most of mine are septic already and almost all are on antibiotics.
They almost never get UVI either. They get VAP if they get anything iatrogenic.

They're all tubed or trached. They all have a catheter, many need norepinephrine drips to maintain BP, all are carefully monitored which includes noting hourly urine production (something that's a lot harder to do if they're pissing in a diaper, though we do have a weight for the purpose), surprisingly few are sedated but they're generally not in a state where they can tell us they need the bathroom, and certainly not fast enough considering they usually need to be lifted out of the bed.
The catheters also provide us with a core temp.
They all have a CVK in the neck and an arterial cannula for BP monitoring and blood gasses.

I'm well aware of catheters posing a high infection risk but these patients aren't there with stubbed toes and there's no other practical way of dealing with their waste.

I really am guessing your country's definition of an ICU is just different and you think I'm dealing with stable post-op patients or something. I'm not.

>>8067191
>My clinicals at one point gave me one RN to assist and she had 47 patients.
We're one nurse per patient in the ICU and that's not more than is needed either.

>>8066188
>Eat when you aren't hungry, it's healthy

>>8056502
depends on your activity level and salt intake, you can dehydrate pretty quick without salt and you may never dehydrate if you work in an office an never break a sweat

>>8068971
What's wrong with that? It's only unhealthy when you eat junk food and take in more calories than you need.

>>8056480
but are you still a faggot?

>>8056453
If your urine is yellow, then you're dehydrated.

If your urine is yellow and smells strong as fuck, then you're dehyrdated.

Water is vital to regulating pretty much every bodily function, from cooling, to digestion, to thinking.

8-10 glasses is like 2.5 quarts, which isn't shit.

My "soft drink" of choice is chilled tap water with the juice of a 1/4 lemon squeezed into it, and I pound like 4 quarts a day.

>>8056453
8-10 glasses, no benefit at all. You should try 1 glass every 3 weeks.

>>8068964
>all tubed or trached
Are you in the USA? I cannot tell, because if every single one of your patients on an ICU after triage is like that, the fuck is going on?

One nurse per patient in the ICU? Every single patient trached? The fuck? I work in a neuro ICU. Most of my cases are concussions, strokes, seizures, etc. Except for those post or pre op or those in a natural or induced coma, less than half our patients are trached. That must mean every single one of your patients is unconscious. How does that even work?

Do you not have NAVA vents that do breaths per minute to help wean people off? Do you not have bedpans with measurements or inserts in all patient toilets?

It is just really wierd that in your general ICU you have every single patient sedated.

>>8057644
>under rated post top keks

>>8056453
It's just a meme. Watch Adam Ruins Everything.

>>8059454
>coffee

>not tea
You faggot.

Drink as much water as you need to. "8 to 10 glasses" is just a recommendation for people who are too retarded to know what their body needs, i.e. Americans but let's not get into that.

Personally, when I drink too much water, I get annoyed because I have to pee every 10 minutes. But when I don't drink enough, I get a headache from dehydration.
You basically have to find the right balance for your body. If you have a manual labor job or you enjoy working out, it's normally not a problem because your body will tell you when it wants water. But if you have a desk job and sit around all day, you have to decide on your own how much you want to drink.

>>8070925
Obligatory obsessed europoor

>>8057622
No, chocolate milk. Science shows that replenishes nutrients better and faster than sports drinks.

>>8070944
t. triggered americuck

Real talk now guys


Have a glass/cup when you walk up and before you go to sleep. Have one when you eat lunch and one or 2 at dinner.

Between breakfast and lunch as well as between lunch and dinner, you will want to have some fruit that has a good amount of water in it.

Tea or coffee, even a glass of juice is fine for breakfast. Just avoid adding sugar to the tea or coffee.

Water is good for you and like others have said, look at the colour of your urine, it should be pale yellow and remember to drink for water when it is a darker yellow. Also drink water when you have been sweating a lot, vomoting or suffering from diarrhea

>>8069399
Denmark.
Yeah, our countries definitely approach the concept differently.
(We invented it, though)

>>8069399
Oh, and as I said; surprisingly few are sedated. Many of them tolerate the tube just fine. Doesn't mean they can use a toilet or toilet chair, though.

Our ventilators have several different modes ranging from doing all the work for the patient letting us set RF, tidal volumes, inspiration pressure, PEEP, and modes that only assist the patient slightly but rely on him to trigger respiration himself.
Once you have the patient on CPAP-ASB with no inspiration assistance and just the normal PEEP of 5 mmH2O you can extubate and send the patient to a normal hospital ward.
I'm guessing our normal wards have patients that would have been in the ICU in your country.