i've noticed that i have been drinking too much water in a day...
i wonder if it can cause me to danger...
2007-10-23 00:42:42 · 8 answers · asked by naism 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
If you are a normal, healthy individual, your body will eliminate excess water. If you have a disease process, such as congestive heart failure, the excess water is not eliminated and can cause overload. As the others have said, if this excessive consumption of water is unusual for you, you need to see your MD. Diabetes mellitus usually has 3 warning signs: polyuria (excessive urination), polyphagia (intense hunger) and polydipsia (excessive thirst). Diabetes insipidus is not related to diabetes mellitus and usually results from a failure of the pituitary gland to produce anti-diuretic hormone (which removes excess water from your body). However, the intense thirst seen with DM is much milder than that seen with DI.
2007-10-23 01:17:46 · answer #1 · answered by Lynn 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you compare kidneys with a filter, you will know that a filter gets blocked earlier when filtering concentrated or thick suspensions. Similarly, it is easier for kidneys to do their job if plenty of water is provided. Question remains, how much is excessive? Some people drink 1 lit /day. Some drink that much just on rising from the bed, drinking another couple of lits. in the course of the day, making the total of 3 lit. + / day. If you add other drinks + the water contents of food, it may come to 4-4.5 lit. The kidneys sense how much water they will be provided daily and adjust to that. A habit of drinking more water daily will result in 'physiological thirst'. In itself drinking 3-4 lit water daily won't harm you (rather it will be beneficial to the kidneys) but you have to make sure that otherwise you are well. Excessive thirst should be physiological, not pathological (due to causes like Diabetes M. or I.)
Good luck!
2007-10-23 08:19:03 · answer #2 · answered by aWellWisher 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
These people don't know what they are talking about. Just because excessive drinking is a sign of diabetes, doesn't mean water is toxic. Water is the best thing you can drink, and if you drink too much, you will just pee out the excess. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Drink all the water you can. You be/feel healthier.
2007-10-23 07:55:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Do you drink it for health or are you actually thirsty? If you are drinking it because of excessive thirst, it can be a sign of diabetes. This is how my husband acted before he was diagnosed with diabetes. Are you sweating a lot? Water by itself is not harmful as long as you drink in moderation. To much can cause bloating. I drink a lot too, but I do it because it also cleanses the body.
2007-10-23 07:48:34 · answer #4 · answered by Memere RN/BA 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
although drinking lots of water can lead to Hyponatremia, this will only hapen if you dont go to the toilet(because your body carnt get rid of the water), or only drink water(with no salt in it) while you exersize.
most of the time it dosent matter how much you drink, you wont get sick because your body retaines the salts it needs. i wouldent worry too much about it, you would have to drink ouragously large amounts of water to eaven be at risk of Hyponatremia.
2007-10-23 07:54:33 · answer #5 · answered by Gengi 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Please do not listen to leecavcu! Water toxification is very real. There are numerous articles about people dying from drinking to much water. Here are just a few of the sites.
2007-10-23 08:04:24 · answer #6 · answered by mattie 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, EXCESSIVE water can be toxic. Are you drinking it because your actually that thirsty? Your body could have a condition such as diabetes insipidus or diabetes mellitus.
2007-10-23 07:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by Nurse Brandi 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Plenty of water (as long as you let it out) flushes out toxins.
2007-10-23 08:43:30 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋