A member asked:

If u take a diuretic at a high dose, can it dehydrate lungs over time & cause increased mucus because i keep getting bronchitis since even in summer?

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Diuretics=a tool for: reducing kidney's ability to reabsorb as much water as brain orders. Thus not a cure; only treatment for excess body water retention/intake. But tools do not solve reason(s) & often drive additional problems, e.g. compromise lung mucociliary elevator http://goo.gl/IXDw19 function, thus bronchitis. Confront reasons for problems. MyPurMist device very helpful for assisting lung cleaning ability.

Answered 11/19/2017

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