Most nutrition professionals agree that losing water weight is more of a quick fix than a long-term solution. Diuretics (sometimes called “water pills”) have long been used by people hoping to lose a ...
Diuretics are a type of medication that help you eliminate excess water and salt from your body. They are mainly comprised of five types, including thiazides, loop diuretics, potassium-sparring ...
Following reports linking thiazide diuretics with increased biliary cholesterol saturation, it has been postulated that these drugs increase the risk of gallstone development. Leitzmann and ...
Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...