Fluids Hypertension Syndromes: Migraines, Headaches, Normal ...

Fluids Hypertension Syndromes – Dr. Leonardo Izecksohn – page 107
We have done ophthalmological medicine since 1970 in an endemic of people’s excessive hydration,
from medical doctors’ origin. The nowadays fashion of Brazilians health authorities, physicians, nutritionists
and phone-audiologists is to prescribe drinking every day at least of 2,000 to 3,000 milliliter
(67 to 100 fluid ounces) of water, without any thirst, to all healthy and sedentary adolescents, adults
and aged, for treatment or prevention of many assorted illnesses. This is done daily for decades, because
“it is generally known that water is good for health,” for “clean up the body’s toxins”, to prevent
female urinary infections, to “prevent dehydration” or “to moist the vocal chords”.
“As far back as the 1940s, the Food and Nutrition Board of the Institute of Medicine made recommendations
on dietary intakes of nutrients, and one of them is water. The board wrote that a rough rule
of thumb would be one milliliter of water per calorie eaten. That would mean about 2,000 milliliters, or
two liters, of water a day (eight 8-ounce glasses). But then in the very next sentence, the board said,
"and much of this can be gained from the solid food that we eat." It always surprises people that white
bread is more than 30 percent water. And I think people forgot about the second sentence, so it became
the rule to drink two liters of water a day.” (Valtin H).
As this rumor has spread on the people, the daily 8 glasses of 8 fluid ounces each is individually expanded
to 4 or more liters of water a day. “Whether 2 liters is good to my health, 4 is much better!”
And people drink a lot of water daily. I had patients who drank 12 liters of water daily.
The excessive liquid drinks have been the strongest inducer of all Fluids Hypertension Syndromes,
and more than two hundred sicknesses, signs, symptoms, Migraines and variants, listed at the Summary.
- Normal Tension Glaucoma and excessive milk: We had a white 70 Kilograms (154 pounds) of
healthy and strong miss, 26-year-old, 1.68 meters (5 feet and 6 inches) tall, with chronic headaches.
We found no eyeglasses needs, intraocular pressures of 12 and 12 mmHg in both eyes, deep anterior
chambers (physiologic). On direct ophthalmoscopy we found Optic disk’s cups with 0.8/4/2/0 (Cup-disk
diameter/ cup depth/ lamina cribosa’s pores visibility/ borders edema) in both eyes, which characterizes
advanced Normal (Peak) Tension Glaucoma. She did not drink beer, wine, coffee, water, tea, soft
drinks or medications. She was very healthy. After carefully questioning her, she told us that she only
used to drink eight liters (more than 2 gallons) of milk each day, because:
“- Milk is good to health, isn’t it?”
The liquids tolerance is also roughly proportional to the body weight. To a child, slim adolescent and
old-aged person with less than 50 Kilograms (110 pounds) of weight, the liquids volume that causes the
Fluids Hypertension Syndromes is less than half of the necessary to the heavier people.
When the liquid is drank before sleeping, its intraocular hypertensive effect ads the raising of intraocular
pressure that physiologically occurs during sleeping time, enabling the damage of the Optic
Nerve without Migraine, because the patient feels nothing when he is sleeping. The patient can wake
with headaches or other symptom, which vanishes in few hours.
- Normal Tension Glaucoma and excessive water: We had a white, healthy and strong 28-year-old
physical educator teacher, without symptoms but with Normal (Peak) Tension Glaucoma in both eyes.
He used to drink, besides the water he drank when feel thirsty during the day, more 2,000 milliliter
(half gallon) of water just before sleeping every night, in order to do “body’s liquids restitution”.
- The water drinks record between our patients: We had a white 46-year-old man, weighting 120
Kilograms (264 pounds), who told us to drink 12,000 milliliter (three gallons) of water, 2,000 milliliter
(half gallon) of tea and 500 milliliter (one pint) of coffee daily, and On the examination only presented
small (0.25 diopters) Optic Nerve’s borders edema. He complained about continuous obstructive rhinitis
for the last twenty years. He also presented recurrent renal stones, which probably were consequent
to the excessive caffeine drank all those years. His 12,000 milliliter of water drank daily did not prevent
the periodic appear of his ever-new renal stones. He is a rare example of a person who did not become
sick with this excessive water drank daily.