Is there such thing as drinking to much water ?

Answer 1

people have died from "water overdosing", but you pretty much have to drink your body weight to do that.

Answer 2

I was always told 8-10 glasses a day and though I wasnt a big fan of water persay I drank it. When I was a late teen early twentyish, I had a good diet not much junkfood, little to no alcohol and never seemed to be much of a meat eater. In other words, healthy. I got somewhat concerned at looking bloated and feeling waterlogged all the time. I told the dr i was drinking 8-10 a day plus all my fruits and veggies as normal and what was the blooming deal with the water retention. I urinated a few times a day nothing unusual and showed no sign of any organ failure or weakness and it wasnt until i cut back drastically on the water consumption that it went away. I still drink 4-6 in a day if I feel so inclined and still eat fresh fruit and veggies all the time.
I have great unblemished and exceptionally healthy skin, strong hair and nails and dont hold water..ever. Im now 36 almost 37 SO Id have to say the answer to your question is YES you can drink too much water. Its not always about dying and exploding or anything that serious but the small irritating things that can be affected and make you want to take action. Being bloated and waterlogged is not only uncomfortable its also unattractive and makes yiour clothes fit funny.

Answer 3

Yes, there is such thing as Water toxication, also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning. It 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

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=12053855&dopt=Abstract

Death by Water Intoxication:

Office of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rockville, MD 20850, USA.

With recent emphasis on increased water intake during exercise for the prevention of dehydration and exertional heat illness, there has been an increase in cases of hyponatremia related to excessive water intake. This article reviews several recent military cases and three deaths that have occurred as a result of overhydration, with resultant hyponatremia and cerebral edema. All of these cases are associated with more than 5 L (usually 10-20 L) of water intake during a period of a few hours. The importance of maintaining adequate hydration in exertional heat illness prevention cannot be overemphasized, but excessive fluid intake may lead to life-threatening hyponatremia. Current guidelines provide safety by limiting fluid intake during times of heavy sweating to 1 to 1.5 L per hour.

Answer 5

particular there is. besides the actuality that ingesting 8 glasses of water an afternoon is robust for you, ingesting much greater might reason you to have an disillusioned abdomen. you should additionally no longer chug water till now severe actual exertion consultation. I as quickly as examine an editorial wherein a woman handed out and died after ingesting 2 bottles of water in a quick volume of time till now doing gymnastics. i'm hoping this helps!

Answer 6

In addtion to what your first two respondents said (they were the only ones available for me to read before I came to answer your question), I can tell you that drinking "too much" water can cause you to lose so many of your body's minerals that you will actually begin to halucinate. As a mental health professional with 20+ years experience, I began my profession with a couple of drug abusers, among others, and discovered that they would deliberately drink excessive amounts of water in order to lose their body minerals and halucinate. Eventually, sad to say, the younger and less rebellious of the two, died in his own puke after drinking excessive amounts of water and taking other food and chemical substances as well. He puked and fell on his back on the floor of his mother's house where he lived, and died in his own puke. He was only in his early 20's when this occured, so, yes, you can drink too much water. God Bless you.

Answer 7

Good question. And from the response of the others I have learned something. This is my first time hearing of such things. Thanks for the question.

Be blessed.

Answer 8

yeah it was on the news a couple of months ago about some person that's a serious gamers drinking to much water during the contest and died from water overdose.

Answer 9

Yes, you can actually "drown" yourself if you drink TOO much water. It's called 'water intoxication'. It can also lead to the diluting of sodium in the body called hyponatremia.

Answer 10

Yes. Water intoxication can cause your blood to dilute & your brain to swell if drunk in very large amounts. You can Google 'dangers of too much water' & see for yourself. Scary stuff.

Answer 11

yeah in san jose i think a lady died from that you basically dround of overdose of water she tried to win a wii. it was on a radio station and the thin was called can you hold your wii for a nintendo WII