Delight in an array of fruits. Eating foods high in water content is a great way to assist in increasing your overall intake of fluids. Fruits are a great source of water. You can also throw several together and make a fruit salad.

Slice into vegetables. Not only is munching on crispy cold vegetables a great way to stave off that thirsty feeling, a number of regularly used ones are also high in water. With lettuce, eat the outer leaves within a day or two of buying it.

Initially, lettuce contains more water in its outer leaves, but it stays longer in its internal leaves. Bring on the meat. The leaner the beef, the higher the water count. Because water will seep out of chicken the longer it sits in the refrigerator, cook it as soon as possible after you buy it.

Both will make you thirsty. Spicy foods and foods containing a lot of salt, like ham, white bread, ketchup, chips, processed cheese and meat pizza, will naturally also increase thirst, too. Dig into yogurt. Avoid a lot of alcohol.

Stay away from consuming large quantities of beer and wine, particularly. Actually, it messes with your mind, literally. Alcohol reduces how much ADH, or anti-diuretic hormone, the pituitary gland in your brain produces.

This causes you to urinate more, not just the alcohol, but also the fluids that were previously balanced in your body. Most of it will come out in your urine.

Method 2. Suck on ice chips or ice cubes. There are times, such as when you can't eat or drink anything the night or morning before surgery, that you think you're starving — not for food but for just one sip of sparkling cold water.

While this should be avoided before surgery, ice chips or ice cubes are the first things they give you when you wake up to help moisten your mouth and quench your thirst.

So freeze some water in ice cube trays and put them in a cup or a plastic baggie for ice chips, carefully break them into pieces for immediate thirst relief. Chew sugar-free gum and suck on sugar-free hard candy.

Chewing gum and sucking on hard candies will actually make your mouth produce more saliva, which in turn makes you less thirsty. While you also shouldn't do this before surgery, it's helpful if you are restricting liquids because of dialysis.

It's also good for quenching thirst caused by any number of other things. Make sure you buy sugar-free hard candies that you not only enjoy but that also last a long time. The more you use, the more saliva your mouth will produce.

Be warned, xylitol is often in sugar-free gum and sugar-free candies, and it can lead to diarrhea or cramps if enough is consumed. Chewing on whole mint leaves is cooling, refreshing and will also help quench your thirst.

Suck on frozen fruit. At times, such as when a person is on dialysis, sucking on frozen fruits like grapes, peach slices and pineapple chunks, can be amazing thirst-quenchers.

It helps because it, too, stimulates the production of saliva and has a high water content. Aside from grapes and other berries, all you need to do is cut them up and put them in a bag in the freezer. Or, for something like watermelon and cantaloupe, scoop out balls with an ice cream scooper before freezing.

Lemon is another fruit you can also suck on frozen, or fresh if you like. It is one of the most effective fruits because its high level of citric acid really gets the saliva going.

Make popsicles and flavored ice. This is another great general thirst quencher and one that is also useful during dialysis and after throat or mouth surgery not before, for any surgery.

Depending upon your diet, make tea or lemonade, or buy some apple juice or diet ginger ale. Pour it into popsicle molds or ice cube trays and freeze it. If you have sticks for the popsicles, wait to stick them in until they can stand up alone.

If not, and for the flavored ice cubes, put your frozen goodies in a plastic baggie to hold and to catch what melts. You could also take the drinks and freeze them in plastic cups until they become thick slushies that you can scoop out with a spoon.

Head to the health aisles. Try over-the-counter saliva substitutes, especially those with products containing xylitol, such as Mouth Coat or Oasis Moisturizing Mouth Spray, or products with carboxy methyl cellulose or hydroxyethyl cellulose, such as Biotene Oral Balance.

Again, too much xylitol can have unhappy effects, so take it slow. Method 3. Stay out of the heat. Maintaining a normal body temperature will also help a great deal in feeling less thirsty. Overheating starts a chain reaction in which your internal AC unit kicks in to cool you, creating sweat.

This causes you to lose body fluids and become thirsty. Because the sun is at its strongest between 10 a. and 3 p. Run your errands in the early morning, for example. Have lunch delivered to your office rather than getting into your sweltering car twice — once on the way to lunch and again on your return.

Use buildings and trees to provide shade from the sun. Wear appropriate clothing. Another way to make adjustments, however, is to choose clothes that will reduce the likelihood of becoming overheated.

If outside, wear lightweight, light-colored cotton or linen clothes. They will only trap in heat to a greater extent, creating more sweat and less room for its escape. Stay away from tight-fitting clothes, too, unless they are specifically designed for breathability and to wick sweat.

Avoid excessive exercise. Working out raises the risk of dehydration — if not adequately replenished — because your core body temperature rises, causing you to sweat and to lose body fluid. Controlling your body temperature, then, is critical, particularly if you do not or cannot adequately replenish the fluids lost.

And remember, a brisk walk on a hot and humid summer day can cause quite the sweat, too. Cool down with water. Make sure the water temperature is cool, not cold. It should be just below body temperature. This works because pulse points are areas in which blood vessels are close to the surface of the skin, therefore allowing for the transfer of cold through the body.

When you put food into your stomach, you get a boost of energy. Your metabolic system kicks in to digest the food and deliver the nutrients to other parts of your body.

So stick to eating smaller, more frequent meals. Method 4. Cut out the coffee and cigarettes. This leaves the mouth not only dry but also irritated, sticky-feeling and craving fluids.

If you are well hydrated and not overheated, you could have dry mouth. One means of reducing it is by ditching cigarettes and tobacco chew completely. Both leave your mouth dry and you thirsty.

Chew gum and suck on candy instead. Just as chewing gum and candy helps in the immediate quenching of thirst, it also helps a great deal with persistent dry mouth.

The more candy you suck and gum you chew, the more saliva you will produce. Take care of your teeth. Lots of bacteria grows in your mouth, so proper oral hygiene is a must.

Brush and floss your teeth after every meal. Visit the dentist regularly for exams and cleanings. Also have any necessary work done as soon as possible to correct existing problems contributing to or worsening your dry mouth.

Try special mouthwashes. In addition to the saliva substitutes Mouth Kote, Oasis Moisturizing Mouth Spray and Biotene Oral Balance, use mouthwash specifically for dry mouth that has xylitol like Biotene Dry Mouth Oral Rinse or ACT Total Care Dry Mouth Rinse.

On your way out, skip over the antihistamines and decongestants, which will only make it worse, and you more thirsty. According to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, over medicines — from those for high blood pressure to those used for depression — can cause the salivary glands to produce less saliva.

Breathe through your nose. When you breathe through your mouth, the air that passes through dries out your mouth. When your mouth is dry, you feel thirsty. Then make a concerted effort to do it and see if it helps!

Use a humidifier at night. One of the first things most people reach for in the morning is a glass of water. Because typically when we sleep, we breathe through our mouths, not our noses as instructed. Hours upon hours of doing this creates significant drying in our mouths. I drink a lot of water, but still I feel thirsty.

Even my stomach is full but, my mouth is dry. Claudia Carberry, RD, MS Master's Degree, Nutrition, University of Tennessee Knoxville.

Claudia Carberry, RD, MS. If you are drinking adequate water and have light yellow urine, but are still feeling thirsty, seek help from your doctor.

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