How to overcome Thirstiness (polydipsia) and its causes?

 Thirstiness: symptoms and treatments

It is the desire to drink excessive fluids like water, fruit juice, cold drinks, etc. Imbalances of fluids in body is very serious problem because fluids are the governing substances in a human body. Excess or deficiency of water components can cause serious harm to body in terms of hormonal changes as well.

A thirst is categorized into two categories:-

• Lack of thirst: It is a sudden change in normal thirst pattern. A lack of thirst points to diseases that relates with heart, liver & shed.
• Excessive thirst: It is an sudden increment in thirst which can cause bleeding, diabetes,    physical exhaustion, mental disorder or dehydration.

In this article, we will cover all causes, symptoms of both excessive thirstiness & lack of thirst desire and how to control it for a healthy being-

Thirstiness Causes

• Absence of thirst- if you are facing complete absence of thirst then following can be possible reasons-
• Head injury
• Liver cirrhosis
• Stroke
• Being adequately hydrated
• Tumor or injury involving the hypothalamus
• Excessive Thirst-
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Indigestion of unusually salty or spicy foods
• Dehydration
• Medication side effects
• Organ failure
• Rapid fluid loss resulted from diarrhea, vomiting and workout
• Burning thirst after doing hard work or exercise

Thirstiness Symptoms  

• Absence of thirst
• Excessive sweating or absence of sweating
• Variation in mental status like confusion
• Headache
• Muscle weakness
• Fatigue
• Loss of appetite
• Malaise
• Cramps
• Nausea with vomiting or without vomiting
• Unconsciousness and coma
• Excessive Thirst
• Blurred or double vision
• Change in mental status
• Unexplained weight loss
• Unexplained agitation
• Passing of urine in large Quantity
• Fever and chilling in Body
• Desire to drink more and more water

Primary Treatment

• Soak 30 grams fennel in 250 gram water. After one hour, consume it in sips. It can fully control or diminish excessive thirstiness.
• Fennel water is very helpful in thirstiness occurred due to biliary fever, ague, malaria, body heating and irritation as well as in urine obstruction during fever.  

Additional Treatment

If thirstiness is still not quenched & you have fever symptoms as well then 

• Suck a piece of sugar candy.
• Suck a piece of lemon or drink shikanji; it can cure all kind of thirstiness.
• Gargle with 25 grams honey for 10 minutes, it will quench fierce thirst.
• Boil two cloves in 250 grams of water and consume it thrice a day. It will extinguish all   kind   of thirst in any disease and also advantageous in pneumonia.

Absence of thirst treatment 

It is not a kind of disease, it is generally developed by a person as a habit. so start consuming water in daily life gradually as body demands and, cure your liver. For this, purchase a liver tonic from market, so that anemia could not harm your body.