Is perrier water good for your health
If you are prone to kidney stones, Perrier (or any other vintage patagonia fleece patternmineral water) may not be a good idea. I drank it for years and endepatagonia backpacks cheap0d up with a severe case of kidney stones. Analysis showed that they were composed mainly of calcium but with higpatagonia clothing cheaph levels of other minerals as well. I have a lactose intolerance, so the excess calcium was not cominpatagonia better sweater birchg from dairy foods; it was coming from the Perrier. I immediately stopped drinking Perrier and have never had a kidney stone episode since (and that was a good 12 years ago). The only change I made to my diet was to eliminate the Perrier.
Perrier in moderation, say a bottle a week, is probably okay (though I personally wouldn t risk it!) but for any sort of real health effect I d assume a person would need to drink at least a bottle a DAY (like I did). And at that level of consumption there s probably as much risk of negative as of positive effects. I definitely wouldn t recommend it at all for anyone with urinary system issues of any kind.
If you are prone to kidney stones, Perrier (or any other mineral water) may not be a good idea. I drank it for years and ended up with a severe case of kidney stones. Analysis showed that they were composed mainly of calcium but with high levels of other minerals as well. I have a lacpatagonia better sweater pullover saletose intolerance, so the excess calcium was not coming from dairy foods; it was coming from the Perrier. I immediately stopped drinking Perrier and have never had a kidney stone episode since (and that was a good 12 years ago). The only change I made to my diet was to eliminate the Perrier.
Perrier in moderation, say a bottle a week, is probably okay (though I personally wouldn t risk it!) but for any sort of real health effect I d assume a person would need to drink at least a bottle a DAY (like I did). And at that level of consumption there s probably as much risk of negative as of positive effects. I definitely wouldn t recommend it at all for anyone with urinary system issues of any kind.
I can verify everything the previous poster stated. I don t often post on message boards, but my experience was so unnerving I had to share and hopefully spare others.
About a year and a half ago, my European husband persuaded me to seriously give Perrier/San Pellegrino a chance. I never liked the taste but was trying to ween myself off sodas, plus in my part of the US it just looks more classy to drink mineral waters than soda, which is viewed as very unhealthy (which it is!)
Anyway, I started by mixing fruit juice with the mineral water, or even diluting soda with it. It worked! Soon I was guzzling Perrier or any other sparkling mineral water I could get my hands on.
I worked my way up to about a six pack of the medium sized plastic bottles PER DAY. But before I even reached that level, I started to have serial UTI s (urinary tract infections). Being female, I almost expect to have those from time to time, but I had not had one for about 12 patagonia backpacks cheapyears!
I would go to the doctor, get on antibiotics, it would clear up and I d be fine for a little while, then sure enough, it would happen again, especially if I had to hold my urine for more than about 10 minutes (a tad unrealistic for me, I was always known as a champion I can hold it person)
After I had had about three infections, my doctor insisted something else was wrong, and over a 12 month period I went through a patagonia evermore trail running shoes reviewbattery of tests. My gyn imagined I might have ovarian cancer (bladder infections may accompany that dread disease). For two weeks I was freaked out waiting for test results. Negative. Ditto the livernew patagonia infant down sweater bunting 12 month/gall bladder scan. I even was given an echocardiogram. Oddly enough I never made it to a kidney specialist.
My husband and I were baffled. My mother, however, suspected the Perrier. I asked several doctors if there might be a connection. Every one of them said NO. They looked at me rather strangely when I asked!
This summer I was overseas traveling for a month, with many bus trips and change of hotels. I asked my doctor to put me on a daily antibiotic just in case. I did not want to have to go to the doctor/hospital overseas. He put me on Cipro, which did the job. However, during that month I did not have easy access to Perrier. Probably consumed about five bottles the entire time. Due to the extreme heat, I drank a great deal of still water, and felt fine.
When I returned home, the Cipro ran out, I continued to drink massive amounts of Perrier, Pellegrino, whatever I could get. In about three weeks time I started having UTI trouble again. She still had no clue, but referred me to a bladder/kidney specialist.
A few days later I left for a week s vacation with my daughter and her family. I was embarrassed to report to her that once again I had a bladder infection. She has a background in biology and chemistry, though has no medical background. But, she asked me some questions, and offhandedly I said, well, your grandmother thinks it s the Perrier but the doctors say this is impossible.
Hmmmm,patagonia backpacks cheap3 she said. And she got one of my bottles out of the fridge and looked at the back. Did you know that this bottle has 30 mg of calcium? Um, no, I did not. I never bothered to read the label. But I DID know that some kidney stones are made of calcium. And this is what I brought up to the doctor so many times is it not possible that a drink with high mineral content might cause a buildup in sensitive individuals and create stones? Nahhh, they all said.
My daughter then asked me, how many of these do you drink in a day? As many as I can get, I answered, usually between four and six not the little glass botpatagonia backpacks cheap1tles and not the big bottles, generally the ones inbetween, probably a 12 oz.
Ohhhh, we collectively said. So, she suggested I try not drinking it for a while and see what happens. I finished off my sixpack that week at the beach, averaging about one bottle per day. I finished my antibiotics.
Now I ve been back for about a week, and have had only one small glass bottle of my addiction. My UT feels like it is cleaning itself out. I do still feel a few twinges and need to go frequently, but it really does physically feel like the tract is relaxing and cleansing itself.
I always heard that as much as we all hate to scrub toilets, it is a GOOD thing to have hardened areas in the bowl, because that is the very stuff that creates kidney stones, and if your bowl never has even a hint of it, you may be headed for trouble. I keep a clean house, but I cannot help but notice that this week the toilet rings are more frequent and intense, if that makes any senpatagonia guide jacket kristense. Ipatagonia guide jacket kangaroo figure it must be connected to the cleansing sensation. I don t know.
I also want to point out that regular soda can have similar effects if you consume massive quantities. When I was a teenager, I went through a phase where all I drank was diet sodas, and I spent a good deal of time that year at the kidney specialist.
Finally, while on the trip this summer, I met a young, male college student who said he had had a similar experience and nearly lost his kidney. His doctor told him that perrier and allied products, tea, and any type of soda severely dehydrate the kidneys. If you re going to indulge, consider drinking four glasses of still water to one sparkling water or tea.
Hopefully my UT troubles are now at an end. And anyone having such occurences should try eliminating the above beverages and see what happens!
Wow, I DO love the Perrier and Sapatagonia guide pants 42x28n Pellegrino. I will exercise more caution when drinking it though. For me, the price was one thing that kept me from overdrinking it.
One suggestion/question is, have you considered (or does anybody know risks assiated with) something like club soda or sparking water from like tpatagonia backpacks cheap2he supermarket or walmart? Not classified as mineral water. and a lot cheaper.
