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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I also want to add the fact that your kidneys have auto regulatory mechanisms that prevent excess loss of fluids. If the body’s volume gets to dehydration status then blood pressure raising hormones are released to restore the equiblibrium.
The areas diuretics act on are only minor in the grand scheme of salt and water reabsorption. They act on the fine tuning areas. A hormone called aldosterone acts on another area of the kidneys and can act to counter some of the effects. ACE inhibitors usually block the formation of aldosterone, so those are used to treat blood pressure as well.
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