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Can lack of water make your feet and legs swell?
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No.: When you see feet and legs swell it is due to altered balance of fluid pressure in the very tiniest of your blood vessels. This allows fluid to leak from the blood vessels out into the tissue. Then the kidneys retain extra sodium from the diet to replace the lost sodium. Water enters into the picture as an innocent bystander - it gets carried along with sodium.
Answered 10/11/2018
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