Drink Water

Stay hydrated! This means water!

• Remember back when you were healthy, ever? Even when you were a kid? Remember how you'd play and play and not drink until you were totally parched and told your friends "I'm dying of thirst" and you were convinced you were? Well, you're an adult now. Assuming you have access to potable water, there is no reason for you to die of thirst, or for your body to think it for a moment.
• The pericardium is made up of connective tissue. Connective tissue needs water in the utmost. Make sure water is next to you at all times. Sip as needed. Often. Up to you to determine what kind of water. I prefer high pH water. My body seems to absorb it better. Yours might be different. Just stay hydrated. 
• Don't even think about drinking anything with high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) in it and calling that hydration. Don't let the corn part fool you. HFCS is manmade.
• Goodbye coffee, beer, whiskey, other spirits, and (for me) most wine. I noticed I feel more inflamed after drinking any of those. My boyfriend makes the best coffee in the world, but all I need do is remember that as awesome as that coffee is, it's not better than my symptoms are bad, if that makes sense. In other words, because I'm trying to get well, I have to do things that will give me true relief from pain and other chronic pericarditis symptoms. 

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