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During the fasting month many people are curious, with myths whether coffee can make it easily thirsty to dehydration. Is it true?
For coffee fans, it is quite difficult to adjust to start a day without a cup of coffee during the month of Ramadan. Although drinking coffee can be tricked with various tips, such as drinking coffee no more than a cup when dawn until drinking coffee two hours after breaking the fast.
But many myths are circulating about coffee. Does coffee make people more easily thirsty, causing dehydraization. Reporting from Real Simple and various sources along with the explanation (03/04).
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1. Not too effect
 Illustration of drinking coffee. Photo: Getty Images/Istockphoto/Prostock-Studio |
According to doctor Marie Spano, for people who are used to drinking coffee, the effect of dehydration or thirst is actually not too much.
“People who are accustomed to drinking coffee or caffeinated tea will have tolerance on this effect. So that this cup of coffee does not have a significant effect that causes the body of dehydration,” explained Doctor Marie.
Even so, coffee drinkers are required to compensate for coffee consumption with water so that the body remains hydrated and healthy.
“Don’t think of your coffee intake as water. Coffee may not make you dehydrated suddenly, but it is strongly recommended to keep drinking enough water so that the body is hydrated healthy,” he advised health expert, doctor Nussbaum.
2. Can trigger dehydration
Coffee naturally has a diuretic effect, which means making people urinate more often. This effect turned out to be very impact on those who rarely drink coffee. So that the risk of dehydration is due to drinking coffee in people who rarely drink higher coffee.
Because their bodies are not accustomed to caffeine intake and so on. In order to avoid dehydration Doctor Marie still advises people to drink enough water.
Especially in the fasting month, if you crave drinking coffee when dawn. Just a small cup, then balanced with a lot of water so that the body does not get thirsty quickly and remains fit during fasting.
3. Different effects of each person
 Illustration of thirst when dawn. Photo: Getty Images/Istockphoto/Champpixs |
Broadly speaking, everyone has a different reaction to the effects of caffeine on the body. Certainly has a different level of hydration too, depending on the size of the body, age to the activities they live.
Normally two cups of coffee per person, do not have a great effect to cause the body to dehydrated. But if you experience some characteristics of dehydration such as headaches, fatigue, to dry lips and eyes, you should reduce the assumption of coffee from now on.
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