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Why Nurses Are Not Allowing Stroke Patient To Drink Water?

sir, i know a patient of 70 yrs who had a stroke 3 months back. He is under medications. Is recovering. Understands language, but is not able to speak intelligibly. But the most i would like to know is he wants to drink water or juice but the nurse is not allowing him to do so, coz they say it wud be difficult for him to swallow. He is in US and one of my friends dad. How can i help her?
Tue, 24 Mar 2015
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There are couple of resion why nurses don't allow to drink more water. First is they may not be able to swallow and aspirate to lungs and develop another complication, as well most of the stroke patient after stroke their blood pressure use to remain high for some time and excess water can increase the blood pressure, many times stroke patient also have water retention which will increase pressure on kidney as well as heart that could be the another resion, as well patients are already given drips through intra venous line so they do not want to give more on top of this. Take care.
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Why Nurses Are Not Allowing Stroke Patient To Drink Water?

There are couple of resion why nurses don t allow to drink more water. First is they may not be able to swallow and aspirate to lungs and develop another complication, as well most of the stroke patient after stroke their blood pressure use to remain high for some time and excess water can increase the blood pressure, many times stroke patient also have water retention which will increase pressure on kidney as well as heart that could be the another resion, as well patients are already given drips through intra venous line so they do not want to give more on top of this. Take care.