Drinking Too Much Water
Too Much Water
A Californian woman enrolled in a water-drinking contest and died from water intoxication later on that day. She had drank too much water, and that causes the brain to swell up, and stops working on breathing, causing death. When you drink water, gatorade, soda, coffee, or tea, you're getting the liquid you need. It's just that water is more direct. But when you drink these things, they go into the body, and then they come out. The water going in contributes itself to the brain, swelling the brain, if given too much water, giving the person with brain a headache. The ways that they do come out are through urine and sweat. The amount of water in our body controls certain liquids and ingredients, such as salt. When we drink too much water, our body's kidneys can't work fast enough to send water through the body, and it then has low salt concentration.
Drinking a few liters of water in a short period of time could be enough to get intoxicated. But drinking 1/2 liters would be a sufficient amount to drink a day.
Using the restroom more than once every few hours or so is not a good sign, but it isn't deadly. Runners sometimes drink a lot of water to keep hydrated for a long run. This isn't good. The runners think that they'll just run it off on the run through sweat. But getting dehydrated isn't the major problem with long-distance running; it's low-sodium level. You can drink a lot before you drink, not too much, but some, and then during the run, you could work it off through sweat, or going to the bathroom. But to keep low-sodium levels, gatorade and sport drinks are made for just that. So they aren't just gimmicky, to get money from athletes 'n stuff, but actually serve a very real purpose, giving our body the salt we need in our blood.
Concluding why too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
