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Drinking Soda Can Worsen Dehydration

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9. Drinking Soda Can Worsen Dehydration

New Study Shows The Dangers of Drinking Soda

Repeated dehydration from a hot climate has been related to greater risks of long-term kidney injury in mice. New research in rats reports that ingesting soda has worsened dehydration and kidney harm.

Repeated heat-associated dehydration has been associated with elevated hazards of chronic kidney damage in mice. The results of this study were released in the American Journal of Physiology Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology. The results say that ingesting soft drinks to rehydrate can lead to worsened dehydration and kidney harm.

Soda and Dehydration

For 4 weeks, study rats were exposed to mild dehydration with heat after which they were made to drink water, water containing fructose and glucose content of a usual sift drink, or water with stevia. Fructose and glucose, two sugars that naturally occur in food, are introduced to soft drinks for sweetness. Stevia is a sugar alternative derived from a plant and has no caloric content.

Rats that drank the fructose-glucose water after repeated dehydration from heat were more dehydrated and had worse kidney injury than rats that drank simple water or water with stevia. According to the authors, Our studies raise serious concerns for the common practice, especially among adolescents and young adults, to drink soft drinks as a means to quench thirst following an episode of dehydration

Participants of the study staff are inventors on patent purposes for drugs to preclude kidney damage by way of blocking off fructose metabolism and have funding from Amway and Danone.

The article “Rehydration with soft drink-like beverages exacerbates dehydration and worsens dehydration-related renal injury” is released within the American Journal of Physiology — Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology.

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