Can you really die from drinking too much water fast?!
Question: Can you really die from drinking too much water fast.?
In the news a kid died from drinking water too fast. He was in football practice and it was like 100 degrees and he drank a gallon of water when he got home he was exhausted and he drank another gallon of water. They said he died from drinking too much water too fast.
Is that true.?
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Is that true.?
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yes it is true it is called water intoxicationHealth Question & Answer
It's called hyponatremia. Your body loses salt and water enters the blood stream and causes your brain to swell. A high school football player in California just died from it after drinking only 2 gallons of water.... you should drink a lot of Gatorade, Powerade etc to retain water in the bloodstream and replace electrolytes.Health Question & Answer
Yes you can. It's called hyper-hydration and can disturb the electrolyte balance in the body. You can actually poison yourself by drinking to much water, specially in a short space of timeHealth Question & Answer
Yes, if you drink too much water too quickly the salinity of your blood will drop to dangerous levels and could interfere with the heart. But its really hard to do, you'd likely vomit or stop drinking before that happens.Health Question & Answer
Yes if you drink a lot of water in a short amount of time. It dilutes the salt levels in your blood and it's like you drown from the inside out.
FYI It was a radio station in Sacramento, not San FranciscoHealth Question & Answer
FYI It was a radio station in Sacramento, not San FranciscoHealth Question & Answer
yes you can a radio station up in san fransico got sued because they had a game with drinking water for tickets to a concert a lady died from itHealth Question & Answer
Drinking too much water at one time will drown your blood cells.
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Yes, it's called hyponatremia. Your salt levels become diluted and extreme stress is placed on your brain and other organs.Health Question & Answer
YES U CAN DIE FROM IT. IT OS VERY TRUE U CAN GET POSIONING FROM IT AND IT CAN SHUT THE BODY DOWN OF AN OVER LOAD OF WATER THERES A NAME FOR IT BUT I CANT THINK OF ITHealth Question & Answer
Yes it is true.. you can drown from drinking too much water.Health Question & Answer
yes it is very true but you would have to drink like 5 gallons of water which not many ppl can do...Health Question & Answer
yeah cause when you drink too much your body has nowhere else to store it, so it goes to the brain.
heard it on tvHealth Question & Answer
heard it on tvHealth Question & Answer
im not sure but I would suspect that eating or drinking anything the wrong way would kill uHealth Question & Answer