You can drink to much water and die! do you believe this?!
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True, its called water intoxication
When too much water enters the body's cells, the tissues swell with the excess fluid. Your cells maintain a specific concentration gradient, so excess water outside the cells (the serum) draws sodium from within the cells out into the serum in an attempt to re-establish the necessary concentration. As more water accumulates, the serum sodium concentration drops -- a condition known as hyponatremia
From the cell's point of view, water intoxication produces the same effects as would result from drowning in fresh water
Yes, it can happen. You'd have to be trying to kill youself on purpose, it take A LOT of water drinking to pull it off.
Yes it could drown your lungs or something..
Yes, it is possible to die from drinking TOO much water. It happened in Sacramento, California not too long ago, when a radio station held a contest to drink to most water for a prize... Unfortunately, the winner's final prize was death... :o(
And whoever gave a Thumb's Down to Catherine, she is correct... The "Wee for a Wii" contest is the one I am posting about... See my link below...
Yes you can. There was acutally a story last year about a radio station that had people drink water until they puked to win tickets to a concert. One women kept drinking, then colapsed and died from water intoxication. Basically you dilute your system so much it kills you.
yea cuz she probably got choked off of it by drinkin 2 much at a time
Omg, things like this make me believe you can die from anything
Its true. It is called water intoxication. Too much water, and a huge inbalance happens in your body, causing your hypothalumus to overcompensate and many organs cant handle that much water so you die.
Water intoxication...absolutely. Soem of these answers are spot on.
I know it sounds strange,but yeah...it's true. Man it takes A LOT of water...you may be able to "control" your bladder but in most situations that the body is put into...if it is life threatening, your body will take over and you will piss your self, vomit, and diarrhea it all out as fast as possible..but it may be too late, as this news story shows.
Remember, things may be good for you, but too much of anything is just as bad as too little.
Yep ! Its called Water Intoxication. Someone in my area tragically died from this not to long ago ... There was some radio contest .. " WEE for a Wii " ... where they had to drink as much water as they could without going to the bathroom.
If you take in Too much water ; and dont release any - your cells will begin to almost- burst ; and you really can die.
yes I believe it and have seen it!
Water will wash out all the electrolytes from your body and cause the whole thing to shut down
True. Just about everyone knows and has all the facts for you so there it is. I'm done typing...
But why someone would drink too much water anyway?Yes it's true that we should atleast drink 8 glass of water during the day.I don't think it's too much.even 10-12 glasses would be ok too.