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When it comes to weight loss, many people turn to diuretics, or "water pills", for quick results. They buy them at the nearest drug store, order them online or in some cases, even take someone else’s prescription.

Diuretics are any type of medication that forces the body to get rid of fluids it wouldn’t otherwise do on its own. Seeing that lower number on the scale from losing water weight is appealing, and that’s what makes them so tempting to people trying to lose a few pounds fast.

But is using a diuretic really the best way to "lose weight"?

Fact: Losing water weight is not the same thing as losing weight. Unfortunately, while taking a water pill may move the needle on the scale, the effect won’t last.

Just because we lower the number on the scale by a couple of pounds, that doesn’t mean we’ll see the health benefits of losing weight because we haven’t altered the amount of fat in the body. In conclusion, diuretic use is not true weight loss, and its effects are temporary.

Fact:  Diuretics from the drug store are different than the medications that a doctor would prescribe. 

Prescription water pills are much more potent than their OTC counterparts and should only be used for the conditions they’re meant to treat.
Diuretics come in different varieties and some are prescription medications that are prescribed by a physician for a specific illness or disorder – most commonly, high blood pressure and congestive heart failure. 

Fact: Water pills can alter the way other medications work in your body, which can cause harmful and dangerous side effects.
For example, heart medications affect our blood chemistry, and when you alter the blood chemistry by taking a diuretic, you can alter the effects of these medications. Other medicines are also eliminated from your body through urine, and if you are causing the body to urinate more, the level of the medicine in the blood can get low, and that can affect the underlying disease that is being treated.