Fluid tracking

The_Real_Redding

I've just been put on fluid restrictions because of some health problems and I have since found out that fruid restriction is very common with kidney disease, heart disease and failure and a few other issues.

I know Cronometer can track water but it's tracking total water, not just fluids which is what needs to be tracked, not what in foods. It would be very useful if I was able to track all my fluids throughout the day in volume just so I have one less app tp use. Another option (for apple at least) is to have the app read "Water" from Health.

In the end because of my health issues I'm mainly concerned with all everything under one roof. Calories, Sodium, Fluids and weight.

Karen_Cronometer

Hi there,

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll talk to the team about ways we could break out the fluid info from water from foods. What is the definition of fluid in this case? Are you looking for water from beverages only?

The_Real_Redding

To make it easier here’s a picture from a handout my doctor gave me

Karen_Cronometer

Cool! Thanks for sharing

ohmonster

I would find this useful as well, specifically,
1. Displaying a different icon for foods and recipes denoted as beverages, much like supplements
2. Warnings for beverages with 0 water content
3. Having a separate beverage/fluid set of thresholds and goals,or the option to replace water tallies with just beverage tallies
4. The option to push all water content or just beverages to any associated integrations (Apple Health, FitBit, Samsung Health, etc etc etc)

Item 1 would help ENORMOUSLY on my own visual skim through the app, but controlling the tally and integrations would be ideal.

Karen_Cronometer

Thanks for your feedback ohmonster! I've recorded them all so I can review them with the team.

Cheers,

SoloAct

re: "it's tracking total water, not just fluids which is what needs to be tracked, not what in foods."

The handout snip that @The_Real_Redding posted contradicts the above statement. It clearly shows that fluids in some foods DO count. Fruits have a lot of fluid, so that counts toward total intake, too. And sweating counts as fluid loss. All per my urologist and everything I've read. I hope that's helpful, even though I'm responding a year later, because I'm new here.