Patient was educated on diuretics and their overall functions as follows:

1. Diuretics are medications that increase the production of urine, by inhibiting renal reabsorption of water and solutes from the urine.
2. Decreased reabsorption of water and solutes from the urine, such as, sodium and potassium, can lead to increased excretion of water and solutes in the urine and thereby, lead to reduced fluid volume in the body.
3. Reduced fluid volume in the body can help reduce the blood pressure.
4. By reducing fluid overload in the body and the blood pressure, diuretics can also help with reducing the workload on the heart. Reducing the workload on the heart can contribute towards improving the efficiency of cardiac function in individuals with heart failure.
5. By inhibiting reabsorption of water and solutes in the kidney and promoting their loss in the urine, diuretics help with situations of fluid overload in the body, such as, edema and compromise of renal and liver functions, and diffuse lymphedema.
6. Different diuretics act at different levels on the renal tubule inhibiting reabsorption of water and solutes and so, differ in their mode of action.