Water retention: how to get rid of it

Water retention affects areas of the body where fat tends to accumulate more easily, such as the buttocks, abdomen, and thighs.

One of the symptoms of water retention is swollen legs with an uneven skin tone.

People often confuse cellulite with water retention because the affected areas look similar, even though they have different causes.

Water retention is a less serious condition, and the main causes are:

• Diet: plays a key role in the development of water retention. A diet that is too high in salt and protein, as well as alcohol, and low in water slows down the entire diuretic process and promotes fluid buildup.
• Lifestyle: a sedentary lifestyle reduces lymphatic circulation.
• Being overweight: being overweight is a condition that slows down diuresis. Being overweight leads to water retention.
• Inflammation (causes water retention).
• Smoking.
• Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages (cocktails, beer, tea, and sweetened coffee).
• Medications (birth control pills, cortisone, high blood pressure medications).

Solutions:

• Birch (Well Dren): Thanks to its diuretic action, it helps combat fluid retention.
• Horse chestnut is useful for swelling in the legs and ankles.
• Pilosella (diuretic).
• W-Cell Dren Cream: for the combined action of pilosella, birch, horse chestnut, argania spinosa, caffeine, cola, boswellia, and silybum marianum.