Water poisoning??

Question

how exactly do you die from this, what does the water do inside?

Answer 1

The water leeches salt and other essential minerals from your cells, through osmosis, causing an electrolyte imbalance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication

Answer 2

Water poisoning causes an imbalance of the electrolytes in your body and literally washes or dilutes the cell bodies so that they are mostly water, and that they don't not have the chemicals necessary for them to properly function in the body.

Answer 3

Your sodioum level goes to low. Water intoxication is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a very rapid intake of water

Answer 4

Water poisoning deaths are a real (although small) problem with recreational MDMA use; for more information about this see the MDMA Health & Water Issues page. There are occasional deaths in the US and Canada from people accidentally drinking too much water, and some from intentional or forced overconsumption, such as the case of a young man required to drink two or more gallons of water as part of a college fraternity hazing ritual.
Most water intoxication is caused by hyponatremia, an overdilution of sodium in the blood plasma, which in turn causes an osmotic shift of water from extracellular fluid (outside of cells) to intracellular fluid (within cells). The cells swell as a result of changes in osmotic pressure and may cease to function. When this occurs in the cells of the central nervous system and brain, water intoxication is the result. Additionally, many other cells in the body may undergo cytolysis, wherein cell membranes that are unable to stand abnormal osmotic pressures rupture, killing the cells. Initial symptoms typically include light-headedness, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache and/or malaise. Plasma sodium levels below 100 mmol/L (2.3g/L) frequently result in cerebral edema, seizures, coma, and death within a few hours of drinking the excess water. As with alcohol poisoning, the progression from mild to severe symptoms may occur rapidly as the water continues to enter the body from the intestines or intravenously.

Answer 5

it's something about the water forming bobbles in the brain.

Answer 6

its kinda BS cuz you have to drink a bunch to die. its not poisen though its just to much water for the body to handle.

Answer 7

it just dilutes most liquids in your body. just like you would dilute a gallon of coke if you added 20 gallons of water to it.

Answer 8

you die if you drink too much water

Answer 9

It dilutes the blood until the blood cannot function to carry nutrients, etc. to and from vital organs.

Answer 10

you mean by having too much water? Your body drowns itself. Your cells absorb too much water through osmosis and explode...you die.