What are the health risks of drinking too much water?
Our body can just absorb a cup of water in an hour? Definitely not true!Our kidneys can maximally pee out 800 to 1,000ml of water per hour. This limits the amount of water you can safely drink after having been rehydrated.We've seen Water intoxication, where people, because of heat and/or exertion (e.g. marching in the heat, stokers working in front of furnaces to supply the furnace with enough coal to burn in the steam engine era of shipping), only drink water without minerals (mainly sodium, like you nowadays find in electrolyte sport drinks). They get really sick. Stokers needed to take salt tablets along with the water they drank to maintain proper balance. Water intoxication also occurs in people who participate in stupid competitions, drinking lots of water (or beer, which contains almost no sodium — 40mg/liter, instead of the recommended 460 - 1,150 mg/liter), and then dying after winning the contest. See HowStuffWorks "How can someone die from drinking too much water?" and Beer-Drinking Champ Dies After Contest.As for drinking continuously over the day, as long as the normal regulatory mechanisms are intact, meaning no heart failure or kidney problems, you will pee out the excess water, so there's no problem, although if your daily water intake exceeded 12 to 16 liters per day, it could overrun the normal regulatory mechanism, leaving the kidneys unable to concentrate the urine and suppressing anti-diuretic hormones, causing you to lose lots of water, even after stopping drinking so much (primary polydipsia see this webpage of the Mayo Clinics on Diabetes insipidus).
If you died by drinking water, would it be considered drowning?
It is called Water Intoxification.
Do you think someone could poison my water?
Is it possible to poison or put something in the water at my house. I live in the suburbs. Like go into my garage and put something in my water heater so that it would poison the water I drink from my sink or make my hair fall out when I take a shower? Or be in the attic and poison my drinking water and shower water by using the pipes or that big round thing in the ground in the front yard that you go to and take the lid off and use a tool to turn the water on and off. Could someone contaminate my water from that?
Will my body get used to drinking a lot of water and stop needing to pee every 15 minutes?!?
i am trying to drink a lot of water throughout the day but i used to never be thirsty and hardly ever drink water, now that i'm trying to for health reasons, i litterally have to go like every 10 or 15 minutes, which is a problem since i work at a call center and i can't keep getting up to go. is this just temporary till my body gets used to it, or is it not normal?
How much water do you have to drink in order to "drown yourself" to death?
Are you talking about when your kidney's shut down because you drank too much? When people "chug" gallons of water their kidneys can shut down. It varies from person to person how much it actually takes though. There is no "set amount" just know that if you chug water in huge quantities, over a quart at a time, then you are at risk. Drinking more than a gallon a day is probably not going to kill you (unless you already have compromised kidneys,) but if you chug it all at one time, then it can. Your body may not be able to handle an overload of anything. Moderation, moderation, moderation.
Can you overload yourself drinking water?
Yes! You can die from drinking too much water, so please don't try it! There was a radio station that had a contest when the nintendo wii first came out. It was called Hold Your Wee for a Wii. The contestants had to drink a 8oz bottle of water every 15 minutes and they weren't allowed to go pee. They eventually had to start 16oz bottles when there were fewer people. There was one lady who was trying to win the wii for her kids. She finally gave in and went home. She had a huge headache on the way home. Her family came home and found her dead in the bathroom. She had water intoxication. I don't know how much water it would take to kill you, but please don't try it.
Can drinking large amounts of water lead to death?
Deirdre Rose is correct. For example, see this story[1] :The recent death of a high school football player from overhydration underscores the dangers of drinking too much liquid in a short time.Last week, Zyrees Oliver, a 17-year-old football player at Douglas County High School outside Atlanta, collapsed after football practice and hours later fell into a coma. On Monday, he was removed from life support…”When you drink too much water, especially if it’s done rapidly, the water shifts into the cells, causing the cells to swell, and the cell dies. In this case, the brain, which is in a rigid box, the skull, it has nowhere to go. If it begins to swell, the brain rapidly dies,” Dr. Mark Flodin, a physician in Tampa, Florida, explained in an interview with WTSP 10 News about the teen’s death.Overhydration, though rare, is a real danger. In 2007, a California woman, Jennifer Strange, 28, took part in a radio station contest in which participants competed to see who could drink the most water without going to the bathroom. According one report, Strange died hours after she drank two gallons of water. Her death was attributed to water-intoxication, medically known as hyponatremia.I believe I have seen one or two other stories along similar lines out there… So be careful if you’re thinking of entering a water drinking contest!MJM, who’ll stick with chocolate milk (purely for safety’s sake you understand…Footnotes[1] Tragic Teen Death Atributed to Overhydration
Imagine you’re in a room that is filling with water. There are no windows or doors. How do you get out?
Lame answers…-Stop imagining.-Imagine you are out of the room.-Go out the same way you came in.Real answers…Since there are no details, I’m going to assume some things. You didn’t say how fast the room was filling. If the room was filling very quickly, you’d be dead. If the ceiling was low, you’d be dead. If the water was filling slow enough, you could just drink the water & get rid of it (after you leave the room). Also, if the walls are weak (but infinitely thick), you could just dig out spaces for the water to fill & make the room bigger. But the question is asking how to get out, not how long you can survive. For that I’m also going to make more assumptions, the walls are made of rock, & they are not infinitely thick.Do the laws of physics exist?Since water is somehow just appearing in this room that you got teleported into, it is very hard to define if physics exists. Lets just say it still exists to some extent, but allows teleportation (for the water to work).Options…Can you teleport yourself or the water out of the room? If so, then you’re out. But if you cannot use teleportation (& assuming you can survive forever) there is only one other way to get yourself out of this room.Firstly, take some cloth from your clothes & sift through the water. Because water has minerals in it, after about 200 days, you should have enough minerals to extract metal from. Meanwhile, the hydraulic action from the water should have eroded some of the walls. Water usually contains: arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromium, lead, copper, mercury, selenium, nickel, thallium, antimony, and beryllium, so building an axe head shouldn’t be a problem. Wave your arms in the water long enough that it becomes too hot & starts evaporating. Then wave your arms in the air & turn the hydrogen from the water vapor into plasma. Use that heat to smelt the minerals in your hands to create an alloy based axe head. Then you need a handle. All you have to do now is remember your level 20 warlock training from World of Warcraft & use an incantation to summon a…-Screw it. Just wrap your hands in cloth & start punching the wall. Desperate times…
Will drinking lots of water wash out the salt from my body?
Basically in a nut shell, yes, when you drink water the water molecules will work with the salt molecules and displace the parts of each to create different bonding, and then the system will flush it out. HOWEVER, your body does need a certain amount of salt for regular functioning (including neuropathways). Not only that, but you can die from overdose of water. Water intoxication. This is tricky. This is a basic osmolarity issue. You can do a simple experiment to show this. If you had a semi-permeable membrane (so like a plastic bag that will slowly let molecules pass through) and filled it with salt water, and then tied it off like a water balloon, then put it in a tank of water, the bag would slowly enlarge and then possibly burst. This is indicative of what too much water drinking will do to the cells of your body. So maybe just drink a couple of glasses of water to help, but I wouldn't start drinking a lot of water since you could risk worse health problems or even death.