The Summer Headache's Enemy: Water

Lets face it everyone gets headaches but the worst ones seem to come in the summer when you head feels like it is throbbing, your eyes hurt to move them and you just want to crawl under a rock and die. During the summer and any time of the year for that matter, headaches like to come and greet you with pain.

Summer is usually the worst time for this because due to the heat and perspiration that your body is already dealing with excruciating issues with heat palpating upon your entire body as soon as you step outside the door and the beautiful orange summer sun and its ray giving you that nice tan. Tanning and being out in the sun is great for you, but it makes your body susceptible to many things as it starts to lack some of the major electrolytes that help keep your body stabilized with each drop of sweat that rolls off of your brow.

During the summer you have probably heard people tell you to consume as much water as you can so you do not become dehydrated. This is a good thing however with the possibility of water intoxication, it is hard to know how much water to drink and if you drink it where the line should be drawn to stop drinking it. This is something that is different for everyone based on their health conditions and what their body weight is.

The kidneys of a healthy adult can process fifteen liters of water a day!

The most common thing that brings on summer headaches like I had mentioned previously was dehydration. Dehydration means that you are loosing more water from your body in the form of sweat or saliva, than you body is taking in. You must remember with drinking water you need to drink as much as you can but the studies and people that have been affected by the water intoxication condition was because of how fast that they were drinking the water.

So drink water plenty of it water preferably the eight, eight oz glasses that is recommended a day. But do not gulp down a 1 liter in 2 minutes you will most likely get enough water but get the pleasure of having other issues like nausea diarrhea and other things worse that can in the end lead to dehydration.

If for some reason you still have a headache after drinking the eight, eight oz glasses of water, Betsy J, Pepper MD, a physician at Diamond Headache Clinic in Chicago, states to drink at least 16 oz of water and then rest for 15 minutes, if your headache is related to dehydration then drinking that amount of water and resting should make it go away.

So remember what your mother told you when you were little drink plenty of water, and you will not have to go to the emergency room for heat exhaustion and dehydration. Once again mother was right, she must have had a book and knew all the tricks, sneaky devil.