someone died of drinking to much water in a contest how can drinking to much water kill you and how does it?

Question

in a contest a women drank to much water and died she said she had headache and felt pregnant what does it do to you healthwise to kill her im mean do thier blood vessels burst?or could it be hypothermia

Answer 1

Water intoxication

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

Answer 2

drinking to much water can cause an electrolyte imbalance which is also called hyperhydration or water intoxication which means that the water has flushed all the nutrients and salts out of your system which your body needs. The electrolyte imbalance can be corrected by supplementing some gatorade or powerade but in order for this to happen a person must consume upwards of three gallons of water in a short period of time. Not something the average person has to worry about.

Answer 3

You can die of drinking too much water, I think like 13 gallons, When you drink so much water your salt levels get off balance (needed for osmosis) and osmosis can't continue, so you body basicly can't continue to function and you die.

Answer 4

This may seem fake but if you have way to much fluid at one short time then you actuily drown from the inside.

Answer 5

guess they drowned themselve, too much fluid for the body to hold.
terrible thing to happen on this planet, catch to them
contests

Answer 6

The water causes your brain to swell if you drink too much too quickly........entirely possible. There are multiple cases of this kind of death out there.

Answer 7

The woman died of water intoxication.

(Sorry, tone land, apparently, we did this at the same time.)

Answer 8

she might have put a hole in her stomach... if she drank more than eight glasses of water that day then she might have done something to her body in that way...

Answer 9

osmosis