Water causing tummy to hurt.

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Lately for some reason my dad has been obsessing about me drinking more water, so I tried to sip some earlier. I normally drink sugar free tea from a bottle or make it from a satchel. But for some reason I can never seem to drink water without getting an upset tummy. Does this happen to anyone else? It doesn't matter if it's bottled, filtered, warm, cold, ect. It's annoying, and doesn't make any sense when hot and cold tea of any sort is just fine for me. <.<

i would have to say purely psychosomatic. Tea is just water so obviously water isnt actually effecting your stomach. Also the whole '8 glasses of water a day' thing is mostly just an old myth. You definitely need to get lots of water and it's pretty hard to over-hydrate but an average diet gets plenty of it's water from food and other drinks like soft drinks and teas and milk that are all almost all water as is. Obviously in cases like soft drinks you're also getting crap like sugar and it's always best to just have some water instead but in the end it's still mostly water.

Just keep drinking water until your mind gets used to the new and different thing and it'll stop.

I used to only be able to drink evian water. My husband thought it was all in my head. Then he used a water test kit, like the ones used for fish tanks. It turned out that the ph was different in all the samples, (different bottled brands and our tap water), but most were closer to one end of the spectrum than the evian. (acid-alkiline) It's been a long time since the test, so I don't remember which one was better for me. Anyway, after a few years of just that water I began to change my diet, add more probiotics and some digestive enzymes. Then I gradually mixed my tap water back into my diet. Now I can drink my tap water again. Previously I was also like you with the tea or hot drink thing. I think it still went back to the ph. I never tested the ph of water with anything added but I would think adding anything to the water could change the ph.

Yeh, I never drink soda since it makes my stomache burn. I do also eat a lot of fruit throughout the week, so I've tried to explain to him that I do get a lot of water from that. The only fruit I don't like is cantaloupe (too plain to me). But I also don't understand why he thinks me drinking plain water is somehow more hydrating than some tea that I make and all of the fruit/veggies for instance. ^^0 He drinks 64+ ounces of water and tea a day, so he already worries since I only drink when I feel the need to. But I'm also smaller than him, and I don't know how to make him understand that I don't need to drink as much as he does. I think he's being silly.

It sounds like he's going by the 'rule' that you're supposed to drink 8 glasses of water a day, which last I heard was a myth and not really necessary.

Water works as laxating if you ingest large amounts, perhaps your body urgently wants to get rid of excessive junk for quite a long time but can't without the help of water.