Why does wine dehydrate me so much?!
Answers: okay i'm a wine lover but i don't know if there's anything i can do about it dehydrating me? even after one glass, the thirst wakes me up in the morning. i even drink water after it but it doesn't help. do i just get thirsty easily or is there something that will help it?
Wine, like most alcohol, is an astringent. That means it "dries you up" (check the wiki link).
One of my ex-friends drank vodka with powerade (which replenishes your electrolytes) to combat this effect.
Instead of drinking water and such, drink powerade/gatorade and the like because water will do relatively nothing to your system to replenish the electrolytes lost by drinking.
I heard alcohol normally does that.
Maybe you should try to stop drinking wine for a while, or not as regularly.
One glass shouldn't dry you out that much, assuming everything else is O.K.Large amounts will do that, because the alcohol absorbs the water in your system. Wine is sometimes sweet. If your sugar is off, that may be causing it. Get your blood sugar tested just to make sure. When my sugar gets too high, I get a "dried out" feeling. I have to drink lots of water to help get rid of the sugar.
Beer is even worst. The thirst is even worst.
Drink plenty of water before, during and after drinking wine. I live and work in the wine country and the biggest mistake that people wine tasting make is not drinking water. Wine, like sodas and coffee is a dehydrant. Water is the only pure, natural and 100% effective (without side effects from other ingredients, too) solution to dehydration, among other things.