drinking water is drying me out!

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  • maura_tasi
    maura_tasi Posts: 196 Member
    edited January 2018
    Could be from weather changes or other external factors! Try a thick moisturizer lotion and moisturize all over right after you shower and whenever you feel extra dry! sitting in AC all day, sitting in the sun for a long time, or experiencing cold winters can all impact the skin! I'm personally prone to very dry skin and I live in northern Ohio so my skin takes a beating. I'd try out a nice moisturizer (not like the bath and body works ones- try an avenno or St. Ives type thing! The ones meant for dry skin). If you have dry skin on your face I really like the Clinique moisturizer (I can't remember what it's called specifically but the cream is yellow!) I can't imagine that water would be drying out your skin, so definitely try to pinpoint when your skin is the driest to see if you can figure out another cause. And I'll say it again, moisturizer, moisturizer, moisturizer!

    Edit: I said moisturize so many time in that post that I now think it's a weird word hahaa
  • jgnatca
    jgnatca Posts: 14,464 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
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  • perkymommy
    perkymommy Posts: 1,642 Member
    WTH?

    This thread is almost 7 years old!! :D:D
  • lemurcat12
    lemurcat12 Posts: 30,886 Member
    cmriverside wrote: »
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    Heh, I only noticed because OP said it's been super hot in FL, and I thought "wait, didn't it recently snow in FL"? Check date, ah ha! 2011, I vaguely remember you.
  • lorrpb
    lorrpb Posts: 11,463 Member
    Maybe you're drinking less water than you were when drinking soda. I don't know where you live, but in many areas the air is dryer, the heat is on more, etc. Or it could be a change in diet, exercise, etc.
  • hesn92
    hesn92 Posts: 5,966 Member
    Wtf this thread is from 2011
  • Tesha231
    Tesha231 Posts: 381 Member
    I, too, seem to get more thirsty the more water I drink. Try to drink half a my weight in lbs. in ounces daily. Thank goodness I am thirsty! It wasn't temporary for me--going on about 3 years.
    talysshade wrote: »
    it might be a reaction.. i mean, not directly but when i started drinking more water i did suddenly become really really thirsty all the time, even though i was drinking more than ever. it's probably just temporary.

  • Calliope610
    Calliope610 Posts: 3,783 Member
    Long hot baths in the winter dry out my skin, even when I'm drinking a 32oz tumbler of water while relaxing this the bubbles.
  • jennifer_417
    jennifer_417 Posts: 12,344 Member
    Maybe it's just coincidentally happening at the same time? My skin gets super dry in Winter.
  • jenspenguin1
    jenspenguin1 Posts: 1 Member
    I just googled this because it is happening to me. This tread came up! Old but has good information. It's so weird. the more I drink the drier my hands get and the more I feel thirsty.
  • zanyterp
    zanyterp Posts: 291 Member
    +1 to getting thirstier the more I drink water
    it does not seem to get better (even after drinking 1.0 - 1.5 gal daily for months)
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    edited March 2018
    How dry your skin is has to do with relative humidity...not how much you drink. Humidity in your area is probably just low, perhaps due to a drop in temperature.
  • Tinamsmith96
    Tinamsmith96 Posts: 6 Member
    This is indicative of a thyroid condition.
  • NextRightThing714
    NextRightThing714 Posts: 355 Member
    edited March 2018
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  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    hello_kitty3 wrote: »
    I have been drinking water for like 6 months already, but I wasn't drinking only water lol when I went out to eat or if there was soda in the house I would drink it. I don't buy soda, I can really only have Sprite cause I'm allergic to caffeine but if we're having people over I buy it for them then end up drinking it myself.

    Well there is your problem! If the vitamin you are taking has green tea extract, it has caffeine.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    edited March 2018
    concordancia wrote: »
    hello_kitty3 wrote: »
    I have been drinking water for like 6 months already, but I wasn't drinking only water lol when I went out to eat or if there was soda in the house I would drink it. I don't buy soda, I can really only have Sprite cause I'm allergic to caffeine but if we're having people over I buy it for them then end up drinking it myself.

    Well there is your problem! If the vitamin you are taking has green tea extract, it has caffeine.

    Caffeine doesn't dry your skin out, it is a vasoconstrictor and a mild diuretic. The water content of coffee more than balances out any diuretic effect and even if it didn't your skin doesn't dry out because you are dehydrated, it dries out because the relative humidity of the air is low enough to cause surface evaporation on your skin. You can be fully hydrated and still have bone dry skin because of the weather.

    OP if you suffer regularly from dry skin best bet would be a hydrophobic lotion that would block evaporation or a humidifier in your home or wherever you spend most of your time. How much water you drink won't have any discernable effect.
  • concordancia
    concordancia Posts: 5,320 Member
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    concordancia wrote: »
    hello_kitty3 wrote: »
    I have been drinking water for like 6 months already, but I wasn't drinking only water lol when I went out to eat or if there was soda in the house I would drink it. I don't buy soda, I can really only have Sprite cause I'm allergic to caffeine but if we're having people over I buy it for them then end up drinking it myself.

    Well there is your problem! If the vitamin you are taking has green tea extract, it has caffeine.

    Caffeine doesn't dry your skin out, it is a vasoconstrictor and a mild diuretic. The water content of coffee more than balances out any diuretic effect and even if it didn't your skin doesn't dry out because you are dehydrated, it dries out because the relative humidity of the air is low enough to cause surface evaporation on your skin. You can be fully hydrated and still have bone dry skin because of the weather.

    OP if you suffer regularly from dry skin best bet would be a hydrophobic lotion that would block evaporation or a humidifier in your home or wherever you spend most of your time. How much water you drink won't have any discernable effect.

    OP said she was allergic to caffeine, so the effects will be different for her.
  • Aaron_K123
    Aaron_K123 Posts: 7,122 Member
    concordancia wrote: »
    Aaron_K123 wrote: »
    concordancia wrote: »
    hello_kitty3 wrote: »
    I have been drinking water for like 6 months already, but I wasn't drinking only water lol when I went out to eat or if there was soda in the house I would drink it. I don't buy soda, I can really only have Sprite cause I'm allergic to caffeine but if we're having people over I buy it for them then end up drinking it myself.

    Well there is your problem! If the vitamin you are taking has green tea extract, it has caffeine.

    Caffeine doesn't dry your skin out, it is a vasoconstrictor and a mild diuretic. The water content of coffee more than balances out any diuretic effect and even if it didn't your skin doesn't dry out because you are dehydrated, it dries out because the relative humidity of the air is low enough to cause surface evaporation on your skin. You can be fully hydrated and still have bone dry skin because of the weather.

    OP if you suffer regularly from dry skin best bet would be a hydrophobic lotion that would block evaporation or a humidifier in your home or wherever you spend most of your time. How much water you drink won't have any discernable effect.

    OP said she was allergic to caffeine, so the effects will be different for her.

    How would stimulating a t cell response dry out your skin?
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