{"id":1025,"date":"2009-11-06T20:38:17","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T19:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2009-11-10T23:57:20","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T22:57:20","slug":"thirsty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/thirsty\/","title":{"rendered":"Thirsty?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1026\" title=\"Water Cooler\" src=\"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mini-water-cooler-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Water Cooler\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mini-water-cooler-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/mini-water-cooler.JPG 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Some of the feedback we have had is that patients would like to be able to easily get a drink of water in the practice.\u00a0 We have now organised to have a water cooler in the main reception area for the use of everyone&#8230; so please help yourself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I am not too keen on us using plastic cups &#8211; so will be looking into getting a more environmentally friendly system in place for the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remember that you are meant to drink\u00a0plenty\u00a0of water\u00a0every day if possible (I usually advise 5 glasses a day &#8211; but there is no clear evidence as to the &#8216;correct&#8217; amount which will vary from person to person).\u00a0 What isn&#8217;t in doubt is that good hydration helps prevent fatigue, and dehydration can be a contributing factor to a variety of conditions e.g\u00a0 urine infections, renal colic,\u00a0kidney failure,\u00a0sialoadenitis and various electrolyte imbalances.\u00a0 It might also make it easier to get urine samples from you when you come to visit &#8211; so drink up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the feedback we have had is that patients would like to be able to easily get a drink of water in the practice.\u00a0 We have now organised to have a water cooler in the main reception area for the use of everyone&#8230; so please help yourself.\u00a0 I am not too keen on us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/1029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.north-uist-medical.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}