Is it dangerous to drink too much water?

Yes you can drink too much water.

YES. It can cause a dangerous condition, including sezures and even death, but it takes much more than 6 liters per day.

@Allie that woman was from my area.

@peyton_farquhar Yeah, I live nearby, too. I’m from the Davis area.

Besides actual liquid intoxication, you can seriously cause harm to yourself by drinking too much water because it “waters down” (hah hah hah) everything else in your body. I work at a hospital and we have to put patients on water restriction every once in a while because they have had seizures due to drinking too much water.

Yes, it can be dangerous, but it depends on the circumstances. Most people, with normal kidneys, can pee out the extra water. But, if you overwhelm the system, you can develop hyponatremia, or a low sodium concentration in the blood. This is a severe, life-threatening emergency, requiring intensive medical care. Most people who drink too much water have either psychogenic polydipsia (i.e. they have a mental disease and drink too much water) or have taken ecstasy. I’ve seen several cases of young kids who almost died from E.

When the Wii first came out there was a radio competition (the host was probably kidding) where he said that anyone who drinks a gallon of water and does not use the bathroom for two hours will get a free Wii. Someone tried it, they died.

Here are some specifics on this medical condition.

Several years ago, a trainee at Lackland Air Force Base died because drill instructors forced him to drink copious amounts of water during their daily exercise routine and the death of this servicemember caused the Air Force to make serious changes to their physical fitness training standards for basic trainees.

Sorry i didn’t see Allie’s response. sorry for the confusion

My friend was in tech training with the air force and someone suffered from this as well. The guy just got real confused and didn’t know what was going on, I guess water poisoning was the first thing they suspected and got him help asap.

# In January 2007 Jennifer Strange, a woman in Sacramento, California, died following a water-drinking contest sponsored by a local radio station, Sacramento-based KDND-FM.[ The contest was called, “Hold your wee for a Wii”.

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia

@Blobman: Apparently neither did @discover.

I drink about 6 to 10 bottles a day. First thing in the morning, I’ll often chug an entire bottle at once.

My wife mentioned the radio contest story to me. I dismissed it at first.

Apparently, she was right (again).

@cprevite – we usually are….. :o)

I was told by my trainer the other day that the way to calculate how much water one should/could drink is to take your weight, divide it by 2, add 20% and drink that many ounces.