can you drink too much water in a day? what happens to the water when it is stored in the gut?is this bad f yo

Answer 1

wow! a simple Q but really it made me think twice...

Carbohydrates that are not broken down may absorb too much water and case runny stools, or lack of SCFAs produced by gut flora could cause the diarrhea.
& 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
What 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.
The fluid requirement for the majority of endurance athletes, under most conditions, is about 8 to 16 ounces per hour. There is considerable variation here, of course, due to individual sweating rates, body size and weight, heat and humidity, and running speed, and other factors.One way to test if you are drinking too much water is to compare your body weight before and after a long run.Normally, people lose weight during the course of a distance event. But over-hydrated individuals typically either gain weight or maintain their starting weight. It is interesting to note, too, that this problem tends to be more of a concern with slower runners, because they are exercising at a lower intensity, and therefore have a lower fluid requirement. Also, the slower runner has more opportunity to consume fluid.
Water intoxication is a problem not only among athletes. For Some people hiking drink large amounts of water and do not eat enough food to provide for electrolyte (salt, potassium) replacement and energy. Fears of dehydration has led to a mistaken belief that the safe thing to do is to drink as much and as often as possible. But even with drinking water, there can be too much of a good thing.

Answer 2

Water isn't stored in the gut, at least not for long. It passes through the intestines and is absorbed into the bloodstreem. It helps facilitate digestion, waste elimination, and many other things.

It is possible to drink to much water, but extremely difficult to do so, and the body will start giving signs it has too much, long before there's a risk. It's called Water Intoxication. The body can process around 7-8 gallons of water per day, but over the course of the day - not all at once. Symptoms of Water Intoxication are similar to acohol intoxication. It can lead to seizures and serious brain damage. Water Intoxication has been used by parents as punishment (and is classified as child abuse) as well as Fraternity Hazing (also a criminal offense.)

Answer 3

In a word, yes. Drinking too much water can lead to a condition known as water intoxication and to a related problem resulting from the dilution of sodium in the body, hyponatremia. Don't drink too much, 8 glasses a day is plenty!

Answer 4

Yes it is possible to drink too much water.. You get what is called Waterintoxication. Basically it is when you cells absorb so much water through osmosis that they can burst. It is very rare and more common in children. You would need to drink an extreme amount of water over a short period of time.

Answer 5

With respect to drinking water to avoid overheating and dehydration, you should be careful of the dangers of overhydration, which has also been a cause of ecstasy and other drug-related deaths.

Some people, being aware of the danger of dehydration in relation to ecstasy use, resort to drinking vast quantities of water to prevent this. This leads to an oversaturation of fluids in the body, causing minerals to diffuse out of the cells where they can be used, either into the digestive tract, where they are excreted as waste, causing a defficiency, or into the bloodstream, where they can be transported to other locations in the body, in which case some minerals and other substances may have a toxic effect.

Since it can dilute your blood, and diluted blood causes tissue cells to swell. The brain cannot swell inside the skull and the pressure can build up to a dangerous level. There should be no problem if you drink plenty of water and urinate pale urine. Danger signs to look out for, are compulsive drinking, not being able to urinate, or dark urine in spite of drinking lots of water

Answer 6

To much water intake can lead to death...just look at Leah Betts. People still think that she died from taking e, but she in fact died from a condition called "Water intoxication" or more commonly known as, water on the brain. She drank too much water and what her body couldn't absorb went to her head/brain. It was this that killed her and not the pill.

Check out the 3rd paragraph of the wiki link...

Answer 7

Apparently you can drink "too much water".

It can create a condition called hyponatremia, where the level of sodium in the body becomes too dilute.

Babies and athletes who have "over-hydrated" are the most likely individuals to suffer from this condition.

Hope this helps

Special Raoul

Answer 8

The more water you drink, the more you have to urinate. You can drink as much water as you want, just make sure you are somewhere that you can pee alot. Don't drink alot of water when you are driving and stuck in traffic. Not a fun situation.

Answer 9

Yes you can! My brother is autistic and had an obsession with water. He drank so much in one go, he went into a kind of seizure and according to the emergency doctor, he had given himself brain odema. It passed after a few hours though as the rest of his body gradually absorbed the excess. Also, I believe there have been occasions where people, having taken Ecstasy, have died after developing multiple organ failure by drinking too much water as their brains trick them into thinking they're thirsty!

Answer 10

Leah Betts died from drinking too much water, not from excstacy as was commonly reported in the press. Females are more at risk from this than males for some reason