Drinking Too Much Water?

[Neeranam]

I was in Fascino yesterday and telling the staff that I may have had dehydration so now drinking 4 litres of water a day. 

One woman, to my surprise, said that it is dangerous. The other one nodded in agreement. 

What's going on?

[Trippy]

Have a gatorade, it's better than water if your dehydrated.

[PJ71]

5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

I was in Fascino yesterday and telling the staff that I may have had dehydration so now drinking 4 litres of water a day. 

One woman, to my surprise, said that it is dangerous. The other one nodded in agreement. 

What's going on?

it's not possible to drink too much water.

 

i drink 1 litre as soon as i wake up.

[bob smith]

1 minute ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

In fact it is.

 

It's called Water Intoxication, and can be triggered by drinking as much as 6 litres in 3 hours. 

[PJ71]

Just now, bob smith said:

In fact it is.

 

It's called Water Intoxication, and can be triggered by drinking as much as 6 litres in 3 hours. 

interesting.....

[Neeranam]

Wow -  I've been experiencing some of these symptoms.

 

Water intoxication can occur in a variety of different clinical settings but is generally not well recognised in the medical literature. The condition may go unrecognised in the early stages when the patient may have symptoms of confusion, disorientation, nausea, and vomiting, but also changes in mental state and psychotic symptoms. Early detection is crucial to prevent severe hyponatraemia, which can lead to seizures, coma, and death.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1770067/

[HauptmannUK]

My youngest daughter who a doctor in a UK hospital (she works in Urology) came to visit us in Thailand last year. I was discussing with her that I drink a lot of water. Her advice was that drinking too much water causes body electrolytes to go out of balance - sodium in particular. In extreme cases the brain can swell.

She says that in Thailand CLEAR urine would be a sign of drinking too much water and she would expect to see pale yellow to yellow urine......

[VocalNeal]

2 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

symptoms of confusion, disorientation, nausea, and vomiting, but also changes in mental state and psychotic symptoms.

Hmmm. Sounds familiar????

[Peabody]

Too much water too quickly --> lowered electrolyte concentration in blood --> potential death.

Happened a couple of years ago in USA in a contest by some radio station.

[Neeranam]

1 minute ago, VocalNeal said:

Hmmm. Sounds familiar????

I've had most of these the last few days. 

[Sheryl]

Drinking very large amounts of plain water without electrolytes can affect your electrolyte balance, in particular may cause low sodium.

 

4L a day is too much for just about anyone, anyhow.

 

However please see my post in your other thread. You appear to have a cardiac problem.

[daveAustin]

Already all been said. Drink it when you need it--heavy exercise in the jungle you'll clearly need more than when sitting around on here, but loads of plain water in big volumes is not a good idea... that's not how we evolved. Read somewhere once that guzzling loads does nowt but dilute electrolytes and then the kidneys dump it to prevent the blood from thinning. You'll just end up feeling lightheaded, peeing all the time and still be dehydrated. Drink when you need it and consider adding some good electrolytes in hot climes... not the cheapo all-sugar dechamp type in 7.

/The small packs of Oreda (think it is) seem to be ok though. Also consider drinking mineral water as opposed to always 'dead' reverse osmosis type.//

[Keep Right]

It is said that the famous Bruce Lee died of drinking too much water.

 

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/11/bruce-lee-cause-of-death-drinking-too-much-water

[BE88]

To drink water there are limits logically why should one or more drink liters a day? But if you drink beer there are no limits any more.

[ezzra]

41 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

symptoms of confusion, disorientation, nausea, and vomiting, but also changes in mental state and psychotic symptoms

I get those symptoms every time my wife asks me for more money...

[johnnybangkok]

59 minutes ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

 

i drink 1 litre as soon as i wake up.

It absolutely is

 

Indiana Mom of 2 Dies from Water Toxicity on Vacation (people.com)

[scubascuba3]

On a day when i have intensive exercise i probably drink 5-6 litres a day, other times 3 litres. 3 electrolytes when exercising.

 

Electrolytes discolour urine so hard to see if dehydrated or not. Obviously colour changes throughout the day

[n00dle]

1 hour ago, Neeranam said:

I was in Fascino yesterday and telling the staff that I may have had dehydration so now drinking 4 litres of water a day. 

One woman, to my surprise, said that it is dangerous. The other one nodded in agreement. 

What's going on?

I have a very close freind who compulsively swills water. he collapsed a couple months back and had a mild seizure, turns out he was flushing electrolytes out of his system.

four litres is ridiculous if you are not sweating like a rapist and replebishing eclectrolytes as you go. 

[kwak250]

Back in the UK ravers on "E" would drink far too much water and there were quite a a few fatalities due to excessive consumption of water.

[ChaiyaTH]

6 minutes ago, kwak250 said:

Back in the UK ravers on "E" would drink far too much water and there were quite a a few fatalities due to excessive consumption of water.

They must have been drinking as if they were under a waterfall with their mouths open to make that happen.

[ChaiyaTH]

I learned in the army a very simple trick: just check the color of your pee and you know if you are hydrated properly or not. You could do the same in reverse by drinking less until you see the color change to become yellow / too yellow or worse colors.

 

Yes, of course, if you barely drink and are dehydrated, you won't really pee much / at all.

 

In reality you just know your average needed intake, then you know already what you usually drink in other drinks than purely water. If you then have a issue with being worried of drinking to little, just add some small bottles of water, then it's easy as you know 1-2 of those a day.

 

Drinking too much water, I never heard it, you must really be going hard then. I usually also drink up to a liter water in the hours before I go out drinking, gives me a buffer upfront.

[kwak250]

8 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

They must have been drinking as if they were under a waterfall with their mouths open to make that happen.

Apparently it was due to the brain stem swelling due to excessive amounts of water and the E  caused this quite frequently 

[FritsSikkink]

2 hours ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

 

i drink 1 litre as soon as i wake up.

BS, very bad advice: What Happens When You Drink Too Much Water? (webmd.com)

[ChaiyaTH]

11 minutes ago, kwak250 said:

Apparently it was due to the brain stem swelling due to excessive amounts of water and the E  caused this quite frequently 

Apparently it happens due to a shortage of salt what retains the fluid, to then cause brain swelling. Guess better to drink a drink with solution and not too much. I'm not surprised it happens because they always tell people to be worried getting dehydrated.

[ChaiyaTH]

8 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

BS, very bad advice: What Happens When You Drink Too Much Water? (webmd.com)

Not bad advice at all, it is very important to hydrate properly right after waking up. It is just the id-iots who dont want to understand, who will then say you can't say like that because if you drink huge amount of X liters it is very bad / dangerous for you etc etc.

People who reason like this usually fail with almost anything to get the best out of it: using a saving tax method, investing with better returns etc etc.

 

You don't even know the context, maybe he is 200CM tall and 120KG clean weight, 1L is nothing. Compared to a little Thai lady that is 150CM and 40KG.

[FritsSikkink]

3 minutes ago, ChaiyaTH said:

Not bad advice at all, it is very important to hydrate properly right after waking up. It is just the id-iots who dont want to understand, who will then say you can't say like that because if you drink huge amount of X liters it is very bad / dangerous for you etc etc.

People who reason like this usually fail with almost anything to get the best out of it: using a saving tax method, investing with better returns etc etc.

 

You don't even know the context, maybe he is 200CM tall and 120KG clean weight, 1L is nothing. Compared to a little Thai lady that is 150CM and 40KG.

Learn to read, his remark was "it's not possible to drink too much water."

Which is untrue as explained in my link.

[ChaiyaTH]

2 minutes ago, FritsSikkink said:

Learn to read, his remark was "it's not possible to drink too much water."

Which is untrue as explained in my link.

Yes because too much would be when your body signals you, i had enough really. If you then still drink, you are from before modern humans. You analyze comments as a robot i guess.

[JeffersLos]

2 hours ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

https://news.sky.com/story/mentally-ill-teenager-died-after-drinking-too-much-water-12965985

[Photoguy21]

3 hours ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

 

i drink 1 litre as soon as i wake up.

Actually you can drink too much water and people have been known to die from excessive drinking of water. However, 4 litres is not at that level.

[mstevens]

15 hours ago, PJ71 said:

it's not possible to drink too much water.

 

i drink 1 litre as soon as i wake up.

It most certainly is possible to drink too much water. I was drinking too much water for a while and felt dehydrated. It turns out I was drinking so much water it was watering down my electrolytes which was causing various issues. An endocrinologist ordered a 24-hour urine collection followed by a water deprivation test to see if I could be suffering from diabetes insipidis. Fortunately, I wasn't - but the endocrinologist was very clear that drinking too much water most certainly can cause health issues.