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I heard on a podcast the other day that 5,000 people a year die from drinking too much water...who knew!!

You can die from drinking excess fluids. What happens is that the the excess water dilutes the serum sodium. Very low serum sodium (hyponatremia) can result in coma, seizures, and death. It's very difficult to get yourself in such a situation but it can occur in rare cases. Hyponatremia can occur in long distance runners that consume only fluids and no salt during a race. There is a psychiatric illness called psychogenic polydipsia (usually occurs in schizophrenics) in which the individuals drink fluid excessively and can lower their serum sodium to harmful levels. At our local inpatient psychiatric unit the nurses had to watch these patients carefully so they would not drink from the commodes.

Here is an article from Scientific American about water intoxication

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill

You can die from too much of anything

how much water is too much? I usually drink 8-10 glasses of water a day...

Water intake for an athlete is recommended between 2-4 L/day. Depending on what size glass you have, I doubt you are anywhere near having too much water. Having a well balanced diet will ensure you get all the electrolytes you require so you won't die from too much water consumption.

you mean drowning?


Yup, you can drink SO much (and it really has to be an effort to "stay hydrated" which has gone insane) that you make the body malfunction.

Most people don´t drink enough water.

two years ago some hazing occured at Chico State in California. One of the frats had their recruits drink tons of water, one of them died from it. Its silly to put your stomach/body through that.

surferdude1101 saidhow much water is too much? I usually drink 8-10 glasses of water a day...

Taken from the article I linked to in my post

Earlier this year, a 28-year-old California woman died after competing in a radio station's on-air water-drinking contest. After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called water intoxication.

In 2005 a fraternity hazing at California State University, Chico, left a 21-year-old man dead after he was forced to drink excessive amounts of water between rounds of push-ups in a cold basement. Club-goers taking MDMA ("ecstasy") have died after consuming copious amounts of water trying to rehydrate following long nights of dancing and sweating.

Yup. Too much water coming in and screw up your blood's salinity and chemistry.

Rule of thumb..

If your piss is dark in color, then you're dehydrated and need to drink more water.

If your piss is light in color (pale yellow to clear), then you're hydrated and you can cut back on the water.

This is VERY hard to do.
MOST people don't drink enough water!


The average person has no need to worry.

Extreme athletes (like triathletes and long distance runners) need to replace electrolytes, not just fluids.

A typical bottle of Gatorade to every 5-7 glasses of water is more than sufficient.


We dilute Gatorade with water (50/50) and give it to runners that suffer from heat exhaustion, but only AFTER they are stabilized with cooled IV fluids, otherwise the sugar in Gatorade can cause vomiting.

You can over-hydrate.

When I did some hiking in the 1990s, on one occasion, under the hot sun, I suffered a bout of hyponatremia. This is caused by the dilution of salt content in the bloodstream as a result of drinking too much water without adequate salt intake. The symptoms of this ailment is muscle cramp, which came in thundering crashes of intense pain along with the tight knotting of the affected muscle. It was quite a frightening experience.
Drinking doses of electrolyte together with resting was very helpful, and I was back to normal after a short time.

A clubber died from drinking too much water after taking E years ago.


http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugxtc1.html

There was this sad story about a mother that entered into a radio station contest to win a Nintendo Wii for her kids for xmas or something. The radio station joked about people dyin from drinking too much water. The rules were basically drink as much water as you can without going to the bathroom, hold ur wii for a nintendo wii. The osmotic pressure in her brain shifted and she died after complaining about severe headaches. She didnt win the competition but she mustve drank enuff to shift the equilibrium. too much of anything isnt good for u. The radio station was sued.. and i think the irresponsible djs were fired.

kew1 saidA clubber died from drinking too much water after taking E years ago.


http://www.urban75.com/Drugs/drugxtc1.html

it happens, but it's really rare. E really plays with your thirst, and also lack of urge to pee.
You have to go pee every hour or so.

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i've always checked the color of my piss. keeping it light , almost colorless except in the morning after waking up.

I think its called drowning.

You can die from eating too much at once too.

The LD50 (dosage required to kill 50% of a population) for water for rats is 90ml/kg...

In humans that's would be 6 and a half liters for a 155lb human

so has anyone ever died from too much sex?

Lostboy saidyou mean drowning?


Yup, you can drink SO much (and it really has to be an effort to "stay hydrated" which has gone insane) that you make the body malfunction.

Most people don´t drink enough water.

LOL drowning is when water gets into the lungs and interferes with normal oxygen uptake and diagphragm contraction.

Drinking too much water causes an osmosis effect or hypertonic state.

Drinking too much water can result in water intoxication or a hypotonic state. I don't think one can be hypertonic when fluid overloaded. I may be wrong. Fluids and electrolytes were never my strong point when I was in training.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3720840/Water-Intoxication

Dehydration definitely can result in a hypotonic, isotonic, or hypertonic state. I have treated each of these conditions many times.

Most people don't have to worry about drinking too much. We tend not to drink as much as we should.

Yeah, I was surprised to learn this a while back but it does make sense. I was doing some exam questions and one of them had an LD50 (Lethal dose) value for water! Didn't think water had one..so I must say I was shocked.

I am pretty sure ingesting too much of anything can kill you...


(keep that in mind all of you who swallow out there) haha

Chizzad saidI think its called drowning.

Keep up Big C... I said that 5 and a half months ago

think about how much water your body looses every day from sweating, peeing, breathing (water vapor with every breath), etc. the more static you are, the less water you will loose, the more active you are (like all of us realjocks should be) the more you're gonna loose. i was told you need about a gallon or two a day if you're working hard.

I heard about this from actually from CNN. A few years back a girl was in a radio contest to win I think it was an XBOX 360 or some other crap and she had to drink as many cups of water as she could. She collapsed during the event and died.

A friend of mine was a police officer in Souther New Jersey. Near Atlantic City. There were frequent deaths in the summer around 98,99 and 00 when Extasy was so popular. A lot of the deaths were what he called "water on the brain" from folks drinking so much water while stoned on X. I dont really know the details as it was so long ago.