Related articles: Water retention
Definition
Abnormal fluid accumulation in the circulatory system or inside tissues, or body cavities.
Water retention causes an increase in the volume of the tissues that it strikes, making them obviously swollen - Taken from: healthtap.com
Possible Causes * of Water Retention
- Metabolic acidosis
- Asbestosis
- Beriberi
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Pulmonary heart
- Respiratory Distress
- Pulmonary edema
- Primitive and Secondary Hemochromatosis
- Hepatitis C
- Yellow fever
- Rheumatic fever
- Hepatic fibrosis
- Pulmonary fibrosis
- Gastroenteritis
- Kidney failure
- Food intolerance
- Pulmonary hypertension
- Hypothyroidism
- Menopause
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Myocarditis
- myxoma
- Cushing's disease
- Hashimoto's disease
- Diabetic Nephropathy
- Pericarditis
- Heart failure
- Pickwick syndrome
- Premenstrual syndrome
- Cardiac tumors
