Excessive water consumption

Nutrition Q&A [Moderated]
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Hi guys,

Sorry in advance if this is the wrong sub for this question.

I suffer with excessive sweating, and recently saw an article about how this could be linked to excessive water consumption. However couldn’t find anything remotely “scientific” to confirm that this happens. What is your guys take on this?

For reference I drink a fair amount of water: 3 cups of coffee in the morning, and around 5/6 bottles of water (500ml ish), and this isn’t counting food… I know this is too much, and my urine is crystal clear most of the time.

My problem is, I can’t breath through my nose, currently trying to get this sorted (finally) but is likely to take years (UK NHS aren’t the best at these things), so I constantly have a dry mouth, hence the constant water. Not sure if you guys have any advice on this? other than the obvious get the nose fixed… would cutting back to a more reasonable intake of water and dealing with dry mouth be an option?

On an unrelating note to the water consumption, I am currently being tested for sleep apnoea, I have done the at home oxygen level test, but this came back with only mild sleep apnoea. I believe my problem is when am sleeping a switch to breathing with my nose, and hence cant sleep right… would this not show up on the oxygen level test? I.e. I switch back to breathing through my mouse before my levels dip too much? I only ask, as I have a meeting with a sleep Dr, and if this could be the case, I might be able to speed up my nose being fixed.

Thank you in advance

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That’s not necessarily too much water, what makes you say that?

I don’t know that the nose is contributing to your thirst and subsequent drinking behavior, as it would be unlikely for dry mouth alone to drive you to drink. Would look into getting the dry mouth evaluated, though sleep apnea may be contributing. Regarding sleep apnea, humans breath through their noses and mouths when they sleep. If this is insufficient to keep oxygen levels at their normal levels, which is what happens with sleep apnea, a number of complications can occur.

Sounds like you would benefit from a doctor’s visit.