Ok so a Person can die from drinking to much water, but why do they die from drinking to much water?

Answer 1

Not knowing exactly but I would guess complications from hemodilution.

Answer 2

The extra fluid expands blood volume and dilutes blood salt levels. This causes blood salt levels to be very low, while brain salt levels remain normal. Fluid moves from an area of low salt concentration into areas with high salt levels. So fluid moves from the bloodstream into the brain, causing brain swelling. Since the brain is enclosed in the skull, which is a tight box, the brain expands and has nowhere to go, so it is squashed to cause headache, nausea, and blurred vision. Since these are the same symptoms caused by pure dehydration with normal blood salt levels, the only way to diagnose the condition is with blood tests. As blood salt levels drop even lower, the person becomes confused, develops seizures and falls unconscious. You should suspect hyponatremia when the event takes more than four hours, the athlete is a thin woman in her first ultra-long endurance event, and when she has been drinking heavily as she exercises. All people who are confused, pass out or have seizures should be sent to a hospital immediately. The condition requires skilled management because the first impulse of an inexperienced physician is to give intravenous fluids, which dilute blood salt levels further and swell the brain and can kill the patient.

Answer 3

It's a combination of soooo many things. Mainly dealing with blood, which in turn causes multi-system damage. You disturb the balance of sodium and other important electrolytes which affects the cardiovascular and gentourinary system. The extra fluid also can shift into interstitual and other tissues causing massive swelling (including the brain)....then there is the kidney malfunction. Mix all of this together, and you have a serious "Good Lord" situation. nutshell: Toss in some kidney failure, heart attack, possible stroke, lowered blood glucose levels, brain and other swelling, inability to filter toxins, etc, etc.

Answer 4

There is also a condition called hyponatria that occurs when you take in too much water, thus diluting the sodium and other minerals in the body. It throws the body's chemistry out of whack and can, in serious cases, cause death.

Answer 5

according to local San Francisco news reports about the woman who died the other due from the radio show contest, the organs in your body swell due to massive intake of water and an imbalance of sodium levels in your system. Your body's organs move water from outside the cells to inside the cells to accomodate the imbalance of electrolytes. All of the body's organs swell including the brain.

Answer 6

Your body can't take it, especially the kidneys. They'd wear themselves out and It wouldn't be possible to get all the water out of your body fast enough and so this would damage other body organs. Also, the body already has a percentage of water already and so this could cause water intoxication which stops the dilution of sodium in your body!

Answer 7

Because the water filters out all the useful chemicals out of the blood. This is also called water poisoning

Answer 8

I know it has something to do with throwing off the electrolyte balance in the body.

Hopefully someone with medical expertise will give you a better answer.

Answer 9

Basically, too much water thins the blood. It's called hyponatremia

Answer 10

It dilutes the salt in your body to dangerous levels and completely disrupts the electrolyte levels. Organs and body parts begin to fail...

Answer 11

Cells "lyse out" all the minerals that keep them working. The sodiun/potassium pump is what keeps the cellular cystem giong and without it the cells lose their structure and stop working. No cell life, no life.