These include caffeine drinks, foods like asparagus, and herbs like hawthorn. Keep in mind that research doesn't always support these claims, and the use of natural diuretics should be discussed ...

Physicians frequently administer diuretics to hospitalized patients in the early phase of acute renal failure (ARF), in attempts to minimize fluid overload and convert oliguric ARF to nonoliguric ARF.

Although diuretics do not directly treat the pathologic changes that occur with heart failure, they are the mainstay of symptomatic treatment to remove excess extracellular fluid, thus alleviating ...