Can I drink water after exercise and what should I pay attention to

Maybe many people have developed a good habit of doing exercise. This is a very good habit. Regular exercise can greatly improve our resilience and effectively help us shape our body. However, there are many precautions in doing exercise that require our special attention. Let us now understand whether we can drink water after exercise and what precautions we should pay attention to.

1. Drinking water before and after exercise is quite important. We all know that when we exercise, we sweat a lot. Water will be lost. If you wait until you are thirsty to drink water, you will lose your balance. So we should drink water before exercising. After exercise, you lose sweat and some electrolytes. So after exercise, when you drink water, you must drink small amounts multiple times, and don't drink a lot of water at once. Because your body temperature increases after exercise, you will sweat and excrete water. Repeated drinking of large amounts of water can easily lead to water intoxication. After exercise, you cannot just drink boiled water or plain water, you need to add a little salt to it. If you drink a lot of plain water immediately after exercise, and it does not contain electrolytes, the water will enter the brain cells and cause edema of the brain cells. In mild cases, you may feel dizzy and vomit, and in severe cases, you may also have mental symptoms.

2. First, after exercising, especially after strenuous exercise, it is not advisable to drink a large amount of water in a short period of time, as this may cause symptoms of "water intoxication" such as severe gastrointestinal pain and headache.

2. This is because after drinking a lot of water when you are thirsty, the water accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract for a short period of time. In addition to making the stomach feel heavy and bloated, it also affects the activity of the diaphragm and thus affects normal breathing. A large amount of water entering the blood also causes the blood volume to increase rapidly, which suddenly increases the burden on the heart and leads to abnormal cardiopulmonary function. In addition, after drinking a large amount of water, the blood is diluted and the osmotic pressure is reduced. Water will penetrate into the cells through the cell membrane, causing the cells to swell. In mild cases, it may cause dizziness, vomiting or hallucinations, and in severe cases, it may cause coma, respiratory arrest or even death.

3. When you are thirsty, you cannot drink a lot of water at once. The correct way to drink water is to drink small amounts multiple times, with no more than 300 ml each time. When exercising, you should replenish water in batches before, during and after exercise. When sweating profusely, you can drink some light salt water.

Knowing more about whether you can drink water after exercise and the precautions is very helpful to help us alleviate unnecessary injuries. At the same time, in the future life, we must develop the good habit of exercising more, which is beneficial to us and we must also pay more attention to the methods of exercise.