Dietician Yulia Chekhonina: in hot weather you should drink drinks enriched with vitamins and minerals.
Doctor Chekhonina said that in The heat needs to help the body maintain water and electrolyte balance, since it loses a lot of minerals through sweat. It is precisely because of dehydration that there is a risk of blood thickening in the heat and its tendency to form blood clots.
“In hot weather, drinks enriched with vitamins and minerals are desirable: they will allow you to promptly replenish heat losses and maintain water and electrolyte balance. You can, for example, use “effervescent” tablets with a set of vitamins and minerals,” says a doctor’s advice in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
Yulia Chekhonina also recommended quenching your thirst with mineral water, which helps the body replenish consumable minerals (for example, magnesium and potassium). When choosing a mineral water, you should take water labeled as “table” or “medicinal-table”.
Among the drinks that should be consumed to avoid blood thickening in the heat, Chekhonina also included water with lemon, or mint or basil, as well as natural fermented milk drinks and sugar-free yoghurts.
The expert called them extremely harmful in hot weather alcoholic drinks, energy drinks and sweetened soda in all its varieties. Their use only increases the risk of blood clots against the background of fluid loss and blood thickening, the expert emphasized.
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Important! Information is provided for reference purposes. Ask a specialist about contraindications and side effects and under no circumstances self-medicate. At the first signs of illness, consult a doctor.
Yulia Chekhonina Healthy lifestyle dietitian at the clinical nutrition clinic “Federal Research Center for Nutrition and Biotechnology”