Water Tablets

[Silkman_Bob]

Can diabetics take water tablets for weight loss?

My friend (non diabetic) raves about them and I just wondered if I should take them or not?

 

[Robster65]

Hi Silkman.

As I understand it, water tablets will merely dehydrate you so you appear to have lost weight, but in fact you've just lost fluid.

If youre prescribed them for a particular condition, that would be different.

They are often, apparently, abused by people with eating disorders for the reasons above, which stresses the body and can cause complications.

Rob

 

[sugarfreerach]

PLEASE PLEASE do not use water tablets to lose weight! As robster says, they just dehydrate you.

 

[Steff]

Water tablets can aggravate diabetes and make your blood sugar levels rise as well as what rob and rach have mentioned, so I would not reccommend them Bob.