(SERIOUS ANSWERS ONLY)(HELP)Can you die from drinking to much water?
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Yes, there is a condition known as "water intoxication." It is usually associated with long distance events like running and cycling. And it’s not an unusual problem. For example, water intoxication was reported in 18% of marathon runners and in 29% of the finishers in a Hawaiian Ironman Triathlon in studies published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine and in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise respectively.\n\nWhat happens is that as the athlete consumes large amounts of water over the course of the event, blood plasma (the liquid part of blood) increases. As this takes place, the salt content of the blood is diluted. At the same time, the athlete is losing salt by sweating. Consequently, the amount of salt available to the body tissues decreases over time to a point where the loss interferes with brain, heart, and muscle function. \n\nThe official name for this condition is hyponatremia. The symptoms generally mirror those of dehydration (apathy, confusion, nausea, and fatigue), although some individuals show no symptoms at all. If untreated, hyponatremia can lead to coma and even death.
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It is very good for your digestion so yes drink all the water you want. And you will also eat less!
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Yes, water helps a lot. Here's why . . .\n\nalcohol causes you to dehydrate. When you start drinking, you notice you have to urinate a lot. That is your body reacting to the alcohol: it is so toxic to your body that your body sacrifices its water stores to get rid of it.\n\nThis results in dehydration, which in turn causes a hangover.\n\nSo, when you want to drink, then yes, drink plenty of water. You won't get as drunk and you won't be as hungover the next day.\n\nI guess that regulating the amount you drink is the best answer, but that asides, hydrate yourself.
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It will always depend on teh source of fresh water.\n\nContmination is a big factor in answering the harmful part of the question.\n\nRunning water is safer but not 100% safe.\n\nAs long as your using a clean and reused drinking bottle you should be fine on that end.
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As long as you eat and drink normally, nothing should happen. If you drank deionized water without consuming anything else for a very extended period of time... significant amounts of your cells would probably rupture. Your body maintains an ionic strength equilibrium, that is maintained through the process of osmosis. If the environment outside your cells becomes decreased in ions, water will flow into the cell across your cell membrane to maintain the ionic balance. If too much water is taken up into the cells, they explode. However, it would take quite a while to deplete your ionic store so low to cause this to happen on a large scale. If deionized water were introduced directly into your, say, bloodsteam... then the local environment around your blood cells would be so low in ions as to cause your blood cells to rupture... This is why you will see saline solutions, not water, pumped into people in the hospital to keep them hydrated. \n\nConversely, if you drink sea water, you rapidly overload your extracellular fluids with salts, increasing the ionic strenth outside your cells. Water flows out of your cells to balance the ions, and your cells literally dry up. Since your body used water to flush excess ions from your system to avoid a build-up, when your only way to replace that water is to add huge amounts of ions, that requires more water to flush out than you are  taking in... well... you "dry up" and die. That is why you should NEVER drink sea water.\n\n:-)
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The fact that water can cause fatal overdoses is not well known. Often called "water intoxication" or "hyponatremia" (low salt), water poisoning results when too much water is ingested in too short a time without replenishing electrolytes, particularly sodium and potassium.\n\nThe human body (as with other animals) maintains an equilibrium of electrolytes in the bloodstream as part of its normal operation. Sweating causes the body to lose salt, but the primary cause of hyponatremia is drinking enormous amounts of water, which dilutes the salt in the body to a dangerous level. As the electrolyte levels get dangerously out of balance, body systems begin to fail and the sufferer exhibits signs of crisis such as diarrhea, over-salivation, stupor, vomiting, muscle tremors, confusion, frequent urination and other general symptoms of illness, and their brain begins to swell. This swelling is called a 'brain edema' or 'cerebral edema' and can lead to brain damage, paralysis, and sometimes death.\n\nHow susceptible one is to the dangers of hyponatremia seems to be partially dependent on body weight, how much food is in the system, and other factors not yet understood which make up individual variation in response. The body has a system for regulating electrolyte balance and it eliminates excess fluids through urination. Some people's urine regulation systems (partially controlled by Anti-Diuretic Hormone [ADH], also called vasopressin) do not respond as quickly in some circumstances.\n\nHealth professionals recommend taking electrolytes dissolved in liquid or eating salty snacks when drinking large amounts of water to make sure that a proper balance is being maintained. For instance, sometimes when people are trying to avoid an alcohol hangover, they may drink (or have their friends force them to drink) more water than they would normally drink. In such cases, salty crackers, chips, or some other kind of salt source can help the body absorb the water and eliminate it properly without risking further throwing the electrolytes out of balance.
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If u stand on your head and drink a glass of water u get bigger breasts... I tried it, I almost drowned on 2 inches of water. Oh and that if you speak with you back facing someone about the weather, the wind will change and you become agrophoabic; I guess that would explain why I never go out anywhere tho
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Even if you were to lose that much weight in 7 days, (which i doubt) your body could go into shock from lack of nutrients or water loss. the only way to lose that much if basically to get rid of all the water in your body, which can lead to dehydration and death....try for a more realistic goal hun.
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Not too much longer because the liquid that you intake does not have a way to dispose of itself therefore the fluid just builds up all over your body.  Slowly our body starts to shut down.  Its a very painful death.
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Ok, although the oil and dead cells on the surface of your skin are intended to restrict it as much as possible your skin is very slightly permeable to water.  If you were submerged totally in fresh water you would still dehydrate and die if you didn't drink, but maybe at a slightly slower rate than you might do otherwise.  Because of the osmotic potential of salt water you would probably LOOSE (a very small amount of) water from your tissues to the surrounding water!
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There is NO SET AMOUNT that you "should" drink in a day.\nYou'll hear a lot of bullsh!t about "8 glasses" or "half your weight in oz.", but there's NO science backing any of that.  It's all just folklore and urban myth.\n\nDrink when you're thirsty.  Period.
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Not necessarily. Drinking until you are unconscious can lead to death. When the stomach is pumped, not all the alcohol is removed from the bloodstream, so it can still be in quite lethal levels even if the stomach is emptied.\n\nOther factors such as height, weight, sex, age and many other things also factor in.
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You really should see a doctor but Kidney-Well II has some rave reviews. Don't try drinking 14 litres of water a day. Drinking water at every opportunity can cause serious problems, such as hyponatraemia or water intoxication. As the water content of the blood increases, the salt content is diluted. Consequently the amount of salt available to body tissues decreases, which can lead to problems with brain, heart and muscle function.  An average adult should consume 2½ litres of water per day. This intake needs to be increased during periods of hot weather or during and after periods of physical activity.
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That sounds incredibly ropy, the water will combine with other contents of your stocmach. the second that occurs, one thing the water isn't, is pure!!\n\nIt is true that drinking *any* reasonably clean water to great excess can cause problems because you start removing salts from your body when you urinate.\n\nLosing electrolyte due to drinking gallons of water in a short space of time (can easily be fatal) is totally different than blaming it on the water being "too pure".\n\nI think I would counter your lab workers comments by asking them how many seconds they feel it takes the water to reach your stomach. Then after they ave said "ooh, about 1 perhaps", then ask them if the water would still be pure - swimming around with dil Hcl and the remains of the mornings breakfast.\n\nThen remind them of the ultra-pure water leaching out the "nutrients".\n\nNutrients?   And where would these leached nutrients "go" ?  Would they be filtered out by the kidneys (retained) ?\n\nLOL I am going to have to stop now or I could write for ages on this and I really need to do a little more work!
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yes absolutely.  It will keep you from being dehydrated.  Vomiting WITH diarrhea can be a deadly combination if you do not replace your fluids.  Drink lots of clear liquids.
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A few things first:\nPure water can mean two things: Actual pure H2O, or distilled water, with no minerals or anything but water. Bottled water is really either spring or tap water that has been filtered.\n\nYou don't want to drink only distilled water. I've tried it, and due to the lack of minerals that are found in either bottled or tap water, I experienced severe muscle cramping all over my body within 1 1/2 days. Generally, people receive the necessary minerals for their body to work properly through water. Removing those minerals causes deficiencies, which makes your body not function properly.\n\nDrinking enough bottled water or tap water (there is a difference, but it is only minor in the US) is necessary because: 1. Your body is made up of over 70% water, and it is required to keep your body function properly. 2. Water helps the body remove waste. 3. It provides the necessary minerals that are so hard to get from any other source.\n\nIf you do not drink enough water daily, the results can be dehydration, a build up of toxins and waste within your body, and if severe enough, is a cause of death.\n\nGenerally, tap water is tested regularly by the local, state, and federal governments, and is safe to drink. Some countries prefer bottled water because the tap water is not safe to drink. This is not the case in the US.
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you drink that much because your body is telling you to drink.  maybe you just get dehydrated easily.  regardless, you can never drink too much water.