water..help

At a guess I'd say its your body acclimatizing to the increased water intake as its not used to it. The dry mouth and lips may be down to, and this is a wild guess, something to do with osmosis. As you drink more water, the external most cells at least temporarily will have more water then the skin sells underneath, due to absorption, so will transfer water inwards to balance this out. Once you have drunk the water this will leave the external cells craving water as there is less there, whilst the other water is already being transfered around your body.

This is as I say an, albeit only very slightly, educated guess.

I drink a heap of water & ALWAYS have dry lips, but not because of the water.... mine are dry cause I live by the beach & ever since moving here 7 years ago my lips have been dry all the time. Actually ever since meeting hubby 16 years ago my lips have been dry, cause coming to his place (same house I'm in now) would always do it to me.

Dry mouth though...nope...that's what saliva is for.

As for the loo.... yeah more water in = more water out. Hold it in a little longer to train your bladder a bit more, cause it will always get you otherwise.

I drink a heap of water & ALWAYS have dry lips, but not because of the water.... mine are dry cause I live by the beach & ever since moving here 7 years ago my lips have been dry all the time. Actually ever since meeting hubby 16 years ago my lips have been dry, cause coming to his place (same house I'm in now) would always do it to me.

Dry mouth though...nope...that's what saliva is for.

As for the loo.... yeah more water in = more water out. Hold it in a little longer to train your bladder a bit more, cause it will always get you otherwise.

That probably helps show it is at least something to do with osmosis I guess as the salt in theair will be drawing the water out of the cells in the opposite direction to the op. Think thats the cases from my school biology lessons!!!

How do you cope on so few hours sleep? I only got 7 last night and feel like death!!

The other thing to say would be that although you drink a lot of water, you do have quite a lot of dehydratents(sp) in your daily intake, tea, coffee, occasional fizzy drinks etc. This combined with any occasions of higher salt in take would increase you're need for water.

Might be an idea to monitor your sodium in take as if this is high then could be a cause.

The other thing to say would be that although you drink a lot of water, you do have quite a lot of dehydratents(sp) in your daily intake, tea, coffee, occasional fizzy drinks etc. This combined with any occasions of higher salt in take would increase you're need for water.

That is true.. It is something I need to address. I need the coffee as I don't sleep much. This is unavoidable thanks to my job. Maybe it is just something I need to learn to cope with

Regarding that, its pretty much impossible to do like you say due to working etc, but if you could stop the coffee for a month, during which you'd feel like absolute cr*p, you wouldn't need it any more. They have basically proven that the need for coffee is actually a self perpetuating addiction. If you can manage to go cold turkey for a month your body will kick this and you will feel exactly the same without it as you currently do with, but like I say easier said than done.

I'm lucky, I don't actually drink tea or coffee, although most nights I only sleep 3-4 hours anyway lol.

I used to find that, so now I drink carbonated water with a dash of lemon juice. The same hydration but no dry mouth / lips. PLUS...it tastes nice and fresh. Hope that helps.

Don't give up coffee and tea. They are both great.
I suggest Blistex intensive moisturiser lip stuff from Boots for the lips - it is the best lip balm I've ever used.
For the mouth I suggest nothing as I'm not an expert.
I also suggest toileting whenever you need to - you don't want to train your body to not go... that's really wrong.

Never said give up tea and coffee, just be aware of the effect they have. Same as anything if you like them, have them but in moderation, but regarding the sleeping/feeling awake without coffee its a case of needing to kick the addiction and then carry on afterwards with more controlled intake so not addicted again.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Woollylittel,
A few things come to mind. Do you lick your lips more than the average person? With words like loo and wee, I am going to assume you are in Europe? What is the weather like? Cold temperatures tend to have drier air, when combined with licking your lips, the enzymes in saliva (for digestion, like amylase) are designed to breakdown starches in your diet, so the thin waxy layer that protects your skin is no match. You can try applying a lip balm with soothing lanolin to protect your lips. Whilst drinking too much water is also bad, reading that you are frequenting the loo demonstrates that is not a problem, provided your wee is clear of course.
Try the lip balm and avoiding licking your lips as much as you can. I hope this helps...
ND

Alot of valid points made so far...I think in winter and in our cooler climes our lips dry out, cental heating will do that.

As for frequent loo going, I was one for doing that until last year I was at a meeting where a doctor was speaking on womens issues, she said we shouldn't be weeing more than 8 times per day! Thats not alot either, she said we can retrain ourselves, that we had to in order to have strong pelvic floor muscles and bladders as we got older, ie stop us from ending up incontinent....I started from then holding off that little but longer and now have successfully retrained my bladder! I could have easily have wee'd every hour previously, and once during sleeping hours but now I can go 3 to 4 hrs between wees and all night without! I know this is too much info but our bodies will work better in later life if we exercise control :-D

Hope this encourages you ladies ti do likewise

Ruth