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Have tried watermelon, popsicles. Keep bringing glass of beverage to her at times, but she mostly does not want It! Thanks

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Are liquids difficult for her to swallow?
I had to thicken my Husbands liquids. Progressed from nectar thick to pudding thick by the time he died.
With dementia the body fails to close the "flap" that directs liquids and solid from the esophagus and trachea. When this happens a person can get fluids into the lungs, sometimes choking will occur but if it is just small bits of fluid that drip into the lungs you may not notice.
Try thickening fluids or offer things that are thick already. Pudding, applesauce fruit puree of any kind. Thicker fluids like prune juice, thick soups and things like this.
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Ditto to 97yroldmom's suggestions. I had kidney stones many years ago and I really dislike drinking straight water. I make hot tea with honey and lemon and drink that all day long (as well as iced tea in summer) and also drink sparkling mineral water with just a tiny bit of cranapple juice in it. Never had a reoccurrence of stones.

Also, my MIL, who is in a LTC facility, has had one UTI after another. From a seasoned poster on this forum I read how adding Mannose-D (a supplement) to her daily diet stopped her from having so many. I'm not a fan of supplements for many scientific reasons I won't get into here, but had nothing to lose in giving this simple sugar to my MIL to stop her suffering. I started it in early fall of 2019 and she has not had one UTI since. It's not too expensive and there's no real dosage info, but there shouldn't be any adverse affects since it is a simple sugar that you just pee out. You may want to give it a try. I ordered it on amazon.com.
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Is there anything she does want? Offer the water first and then she can have the desired thing. My aunt used to really want coffee. So I would get her to take her meds and then I would put her coffee on. Helped to get her past the standoff on the pills.
Also offer her food in liquid forms. Soup. Protein drinks instead of solid food.
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