Water intoxication is when you drink so much water that you actually begin to ‘water down’ your system.
You would have to empty a lot of water coolers to manage it!
Specifically water intoxication occurs when a person drinks too much water – either habitually or in an extreme setting such as an athletic competition – and the level of salts in that persons system becomes too dilute.
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Water intoxication can also lead to an imbalance of water in the brain. Your average human brain already is made up of around 78 percent water and I guess that is its comfortable limit. This is also known as hyper-hydration and as water poisoning, although that is less common, you can also say over hydration.
How dangerous can it be? Well it can actually be fatal but you do not usually need to worry about this pretty much everyone that has died from this issue has either performed an extreme duration challenge in which they are expending large quantities of electrolytes and drinking huge amounts of water to stay hydrated but without replacing the all important electrolytes (salts) in their system.
One of the other causes of death by water intoxication is when people partake in an ill advised water drinking competition to see who can consume the most water. These are usually intended to be fun affairs but anything like this comes with a certain if unknown risk.
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Before you try any games that involve any form of unusual action or duress placed on your body or its systems you should look up and see if there are any potential dangers.
It is also good idea to seek the opinion of a medical professional as simply Googling for the answer can get you a lot of information that is not edited or properly fact checked in any way. Fact checking does not mean finding the information somewhere else online then reusing it assuming it is true either.
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