Talk:Water retention (medicine)

Consider merging
The technical term for this condition is Edema. There is a highly technical page that already exists for that. This is a low-quality duplication. Longobord (talk) 09:34, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
 * Support Despite the small gap of seven years between original post and my reply . Water retention is ambiguous and needlessly disambiguated. Edema is more focused and also more specific. --Tom (LT) (talk) 10:29, 5 August 2019 (UTC)

Needs verification
Article was written by a single author, contained a bunch of inline external links to a diet book/author page. Also same user Healthsearch has little or no other contribs, and uses their user talk page to also showcase this single article. ->Btl (talk)

Reply from Healthsearch
Apologies for the article being duplicated on my user talk page - thought this was meant as a sandbox. Now removed. Few other contributions because this is my main area of expertise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Healthsearch (talk • contribs) 10:39, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

"Maintenance" template
I removed the unhelpful "maintenance" template "expert needed", which had been here for almost a decade, and which was not accompanied by any specific indication of what problems expert attention was needed for. Anyone who feels compelled to replace it should add such an indication, with an explanation on this talk page.

Incidentally, water retention is a condition of the whole body, while edema is most often a condition of a specific tissue or organ, e.g. "brain edema"—no one says "brain water retention". For this reason among others, I oppose merging this page with Edema.

—Syrenka V (talk) 10:24, 25 October 2018 (UTC)