The Link between Rheumatoid Arthritis and Dehydration

Living with rheumatoid arthritis can be extremely difficult. With arthritis, it is understandable that one cannot always reach for a glass of water or go to the bathroom on time due to pain, fatigue, side effects from medications, and inflammation.

What is less clear is the link between rheumatoid arthritis and dehydration. People with rheumatoid arthritis often do not recognize their symptoms are worsened by dehydration until they notice how much easier it is to move around after rehydrating.

Here's how dehydration may affect rheumatoid arthritis and how you can stay hydrated.

How Dehydration Affects Arthritis

Dehydration can lead to several health issues. There are no proven links between rheumatoid arthritis and dehydration, but making healthy lifestyle choices is important in managing RA. It helps keep your joints moving well and your pain at bay. Proper hydration is one way to make sure your body is functioning properly.

Rheumatoid arthritis is a chronic inflammatory disorder that attacks your joints causing swelling, pain, stiffness and even deformity. The pain and joint stiffness is usually worse in the morning or after long periods of inactivity.

Why, might you wonder?

RA occurs when your immune system mistakenly attacks your own body’s system. It leads to your immune system attacking the lining in your joints, causing fluid build-up and painful swelling. The swelling may prevent you from moving freely and may even hurt when you walk or stand straight.

Dehydration raises blood pressure, putting additional strain on your joints and putting them at risk for further damage.

Finally, dehydration can cause other health issues like headaches, fatigue, poor sleep and brain fog making it difficult to perform daily activities like walking or standing on your feet for long periods.

Symptoms of Dehydration

You become dehydrated if you limit your intake of water or leafy vegetables and fruits. The most common signs of dehydration are as follows:

• Unquenchable thirst causes you to drink more liquids than usual because your body is telling you to.
• Dizziness or light-headedness can make it difficult to concentrate on your work.
• Headaches or migraines caused by dehydration can be excruciatingly painful.
• Sticky saliva, dry lips, mouth, or a racing heart rate.
• Feeling tired
• Dry eyes with decreased tears commonly referred to as dry eye syndrome.
• Urine is dark yellow or has a strong-smelling odor

Getting help as soon as possible is important when you have any of these symptoms. Dehydration can lead to severe health conditions like kidney failure, heart problems, and even death.

How to Prevention Dehydration

To avoid dehydration, keep water readily available and drink more than eight glasses of water per day. Your weight, height, and age determine the amount of water you drink. You can use this tool to determine how much water you should drink each day.

As you drink water, you can gradually introduce IV infusions like the Myers' cocktail. IV Hydration is great for people with autoimmune disorders like RA. It helps restore deficient cells, decrease inflammation, clear brain fog and boost metabolism.

MN IV has expertly crafted a menu of infusions that will leave you feeling hydrated and refreshed. Try our Quencher IV infusion to rehydrate, detox, reduce inflammation and fight fatigue. You can boost your immune system by infusing our Immunity IV infusion.

Takeaway

Dehydration occurs when your body does not receive adequate fluids. It causes inflammation in the body, which may lead to chronic illnesses such as RA, which triggers joint pain and stiffness, notably in the wrists, hands, feet, and ankles.

By drinking water, you can help reduce inflammation by flushing out toxins. Water also helps to cushion your joints, which rheumatoid arthritis affects.

However, even if hydration helps reduce the risk of arthritis, no link has been established.

Yet, the importance of hydration must be emphasized. It is crucial to ensure that you have enough water in your body to protect your joints from further damage.

So, embrace IV infusions to keep your body hydrated and your immune system running efficiently!

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Steve, who has RA, Lupus, anxiety, and generalized fatigue and has been receiving our Myers Cocktail IV hydration for a few weeks, stated: "Myers' cocktail was mind blowing.I felt calm and collected right away after starting the IV hydration therapy. I felt calm and collected right away after starting the IV hydration therapy. Also, it relieved most of the joint pains in my arm, hands, and feet. Even though the infusion lasts nine days, it has cleared my brain fog, and I am still reaping the benefits weeks later. Furthermore, the infusion aids in dehydration and mineral absorption.”

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