How do people on prescription diuretics not get dehydrated?

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Seems like a lose-lose situation. You take diuretics to lower your blood pressure, but that just makes you pee out all the fluid you drink before your body can absorb it, making you chronically dehydrated and at risk for many other problems. Please explain how this is beneficial.

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Diuretics act (largely) on the kidneys to modify fluid excretion.

Urine is produced from fluid taken from the body, so anything you drink has to be absorbed before you can pee it out.

Diarrhea is fluid that hasn’t been absorbed, just left in the GI tract.

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