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Some people believe that drinking while standing can harm the kidneys because the water will go directly to the bladder without screening. However, according to urologists, there is no difference when people drink while sitting or standing.

The notion that drinking water does not go through a screening process based on the assumption that some of the valves to the kidneys become active when a person drinks in a standing position. Although drinking while sitting is more comfortable, while standing actual fact it does not matter.

“Nothing to do with the attitude to drink, not while sitting or standing water still takes hours to get to the kidney,” said urologist from Cipto Mangunkusumo, dr Ponco Birowo, SpU.PhD.

According to Dr. Ponco, filtering drinking water does not necessarily occur just in the channel to the kidneys. When entering the esophagus, any beverage will be accommodated first and then having absorption in the stomach that the process could take hours.

Related to the notion that there is a kind of valve or sphincter that become inactive on standing, a doctor who also practiced at hospitals Asri Jakarta is again denied. As long as there are no health problems in the urinary tract, the sphincter will continue to function well in a sitting position or standing.

“Moreover, the sphincter function is to regulate the discharge of urine, not to filter drinking water into the kidneys. Just imagine if the sphincter is active only when sitting, we should be kept wet when standing,” said Dr. Ponco.

Drinking while sitting sometimes preferable for reasons more polite, but by no means can improve the health of kidneys. To maintain health gijal, thing to do is drink plenty of water so that impurities can be soluble so it is more easily filtered by the kidneys.