How can drinking excessive amounts of water potentially kill you? It just happened to a woman who entered a radio show contest to win her children a video game console, I just don't know how.
2007-01-14 21:50:15 · 6 answers · asked by doug_distel 1 in Health ➔ Other - Health
Too much water throws off the balance of electrolytes in the body.
2007-01-14 21:54:57 · answer #1 · answered by Oz W 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She was not allowed to pee and that was the whole point to this dangerous and stupid contest. Looks to me like her family will sue for the radio station should have gotten more medical advice before starting this. The body could not disperse the extra water..and remember..she had to drink every 15 minutes. That is not normal for the balance in the body. She died in extreme pain. Humans do the most obscene things to our bodies for the most stupid reasons.
2007-01-15 06:00:26 · answer #2 · answered by Kay 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Body absorbs water when you drink it and expels excess water, when you drink loads and your body cannt expel it or you retain it the body absobes more,there is a delicate balance of water in the human body as with all ingested things, to much of anything will harm you.
2007-01-15 05:56:06 · answer #3 · answered by Matthew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Two colleges students are going to jail for a few years. Just because they asked another college student to drink a lot of water in order to join their club.
The student died. It happened at Chico State University in California.
2007-01-15 06:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by member_of_bush_family 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you drink gallons of water and dont flush it out of your system by going to the bathroom reguarly, you literally 'drown' yourself.
This is a similar killer for those that take ecstasy pills. You desire water but you physically dont wish to go to the bathroom and with the combination of what may be in the pills, you drown yourself. Nasty.
2007-01-15 05:59:29 · answer #5 · answered by The Sooz 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's when the electrolyte balance is disrupted in cells of the CNS and brain. it is very, very rare. it's actually probably the last thing you or any should be worried about. more people die daily for adverse reactions to aspirin then in a decade form hyponatremia (water intoxication).
2007-01-15 06:00:17 · answer #6 · answered by lv_consultant 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋