Water It Does a Body Good
June 24, 2009
Post Tags: drink water , headaches , monsoon season
So I stole the Milk saying. This week it is to be in the trip digits all week. Meaning the AC will be cranked up and the water bottles will be filled and refilled more so than usual.
While the heat is high the humidity isn’t. That will change as monsoon season gets into full swing, but for now it is still relatively low. This means our bodies loose a lot of water and we don’t even notice it. Unlike the Midwest where you get out of the car and it look more like you climbed out of the shower. Here it can be very hot and you will hardly break a sweat. The water dissipates that fast.
Headaches, oh those headaches
You Were Expecting Bottled Water ?
The proper response to a dehydration headache isn’t ibuprofen. It is drink water. rehydrate your self as quickly as possible. I find the headache will usually disappear in about 20 minutes after drinking a bottle of water.
When taking buyers out in the summer, even the winter for that matter, we bring along bottles of water for them. I’m the one that gets to give the headache talk. It usually goes like this.
When I first moved here I had a lot of headaches. I was taking Ibuprofen by the handfuls. One day I stopped by the folks and I asked mom if she had any Ibuprofen. “Got a headache? Been getting a lot of them?” “Yeah, how did you know?” “You don’t need Ibuprofen, you need a bottle of water.”
I was in my late forties when I moved to Tucson and by then had learned you don’t question MOM. Besides I would dring the water and stop and buy Ibuprofen if I needed them. I didn’t. And now if I feel a headache coming on, the first thing I do is drink a bottle of water.
If you are new to Tucson, or visiting here this summer, (I won’t go into why you would visit Tucson in the summer) be sure to drink lots of water. It will keep the headaches to a minimum. It won’t hurt your skin either.
I keep a couple of bottles of water in the car all the time. Yes, it gets warm, but if I need to drink it and it is warm, I pretend it is tea.
