What happens to your body if you drink a lot of water in a short period of time? Will it be life-threatening?
> > Drinking eight glasses of water a day seems to have become the default way of health for most people. Whether it is going to the hospital to see a doctor, or the relatives and friends around you care about you, "drinking more water" seems to be a good medicine for "cure all diseases". In the eyes of many girls, it is often referred to as "scumbag quotes". But can you believe it? If you drink a lot of water in a short period of time, your body can change dramatically and even be life-threatening. So what are the dangers of drinking too much water? How will your body change? Next, let’s talk about the common topic of drinking water! >
There is a woman abroad who drank a total of 11 liters of mineral water in just 2 hours. What is the concept? A bottle of mineral water we often drink is generally 550 ml, and 11 liters of mineral water is equivalent to 20 bottles of mineral water. Normally, an adult needs 1500 ml to 2500 ml of water per day. If it is calculated based on the need to drink 2 liters of water per day, the amount of water this woman drinks in 2 hours is equivalent to 5 to 6 days of water, which is really surprising. Her body also changed unexpectedly after drinking a lot of water.
10 minutes after drinking the water, she felt very sick, and her stomach was constantly rolling, and she wanted to vomit but couldn't. An hour later, she began to cry, followed by severe pain, she felt something was squeezing her eyes, then her left eye started to go black, and in just a few minutes, she was completely blind. , do you think drinking a lot of water only shows these changes? Her body developed even more terrifying symptoms, and we moved on.
do you know? If you drink a lot of water in a short period of time, the body can quickly change amazingly. This foreign woman had an epileptic seizure 3 hours after drinking water. During the process of being sent to the hospital, her body kept twitching, and her epilepsy recurred for a full 6 times. You can imagine how painful it is. The most terrifying thing is that during these 3 hours, she did not go to the toilet once, nor did she vomit. A full 11 liters of water fermented in her body, and various organs were injured to varying degrees.
The burden on the heart and kidneys is greatly increased, and the balance mechanism of water metabolism in the body is also broken. As a result, too much water exists in the interstitial spaces, and the body will experience different degrees of edema, and when the water flows through her brain, it will Makes her brain swell, which squeezes blood vessels, blocks blood flow, and creates cerebral edema, along with severe headaches, or confusion of consciousness, and over time, the water in her brain will increase until the brain It can no longer be tolerated, and the consequences can be imagined.
In fact, there is more than one case of death due to drinking a lot of water in a short period of time. There was once a 28-year-old California woman who drank about 6 liters of water within 3 hours in a water drinking competition, and then experienced abnormal vomiting. , and an explosive headache, and eventually death. It is conceivable that drinking a lot of water in a short period of time is not good for our body. And this process is also called water poisoning in medicine, so what exactly is water poisoning? Let's look down.
Can you believe it? Drinking too much water can actually cause water intoxication. So how many milliliters of water should an adult consume per day? As we mentioned above, adults need about 1500 ml to 2500 ml of water per day, which also includes the water obtained from food, and normal adults generally have about 70% of the water in their bodies, which is present in tissue fluids. It is used to maintain the balance of body fluids in the human body. During exercise, the water in the body will be excreted through sweating, excretion and defecation. A healthy kidney can excrete 800 to 1,000 milliliters of water per hour. Drinking water within the range that the kidneys can afford can be called the right amount of water.
If the total amount of water ingested by the body greatly exceeds the burden on the kidneys, so that the water retention in the body cannot be discharged normally, it will cause dilutional hyponatremia, that is, water intoxication. Generally speaking, water intoxication can be divided into acute and chronic. The degree of water intoxication is relatively mild. The excess water in the body can be discharged by medical means, and the symptoms of water intoxication can be corrected and gradually returned to normal. May cause permanent damage to the nervous system, or even death.
In fact, healthy kidneys are very powerful, and excess water is usually excreted normally, but people don’t have to force themselves to drink a certain amount of water. The body will naturally prompt when it needs to drink water. How much water do you drink every day? Welcome to leave a message and share in the comment area below, and move your little hands to make a fortune, like, favorite, and follow!