Hello, I’m Dr Sandip Mathur. I’m a gastroenterologist in Abilene, Texas.

I like to ask this: how often do you go to pass urine? If you go every four hours or so, then that’s probably fine. But if you go to pass urine every one or two hours, you may be drinking more water than you need.

You’ve all heard us doctors say, drink more water! And here I am saying, be careful. You can get too much of a good thing.

If you drink one glass of water, you also swallow one and a half glasses of air with it. That’s normal. 

So if you drink four glasses of water a day then you are ALSO getting six glasses of air.

That’s a total of TEN glasses of fluid (four of water and six of air). So you may feel bloated and burp a lot.

Your water intake includes coffee, tea, alcohol, soups, smoothies and sodas.

Is your water intake enough to have you pee every four hours or so? Or are you drinking too much?

Remember that over-watering a plant will not help it. In fact, it will harm it. That’s true for you as well.

Next time I will talk about too little water and the risks of dehydration. That is very important as we see such hot temperatures all over the nation.

Remember, these are general medical guidelines, you must always check with your own PCP.