Can you get sick off of drinking too much water?

Question

I heard you can, it it true?

Answer 1

yes, you can. if you drink too much water it waters down your blood, and your cells can swell and burst from over-concentration. it can cause kidney and brain damage, and it throws your body's minerals way out of balance.

Answer 2

you can actually DIE from drinking too much water. there was a woman recently tring to win a car in the water drinking contest put on by a radio station. She passed out and died of water toxicity.  

Answer 3

no it is not true

Answer 4

uh huh

Answer 5

You can die too if the water is drank too fastly or too much it will hurt the mind.

Answer 6

You can die from drinking too much water. If you drink too much water too quickly fasteer than your kidneys can excrete it then your body becomes water looged and your brain swells. Also drinking too much water causes you to lose too much of your body salts and puts the electrocytes in tour cells out of baance which can make you severely ill and even die.

I.ve given you a couple of links

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-water-po...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16614865/

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,3270...

Answer 7

yup, i don't even like water, so there...

but it's not cuz of that...

Answer 8

yes you can after drinking about 4-5 gallons of water you can also give yourself sevre brain injury becuase if there is no more room in your body for water it will go to a space that is not full (the brain)

Answer 9

You can get sick if you drink way too much water way too quickly.

Just drinking a lot of water even a short amount of time will just cause you to urinate a lot. A little more will cause you to vomit water. But if you drink too much too fast your body can't get rid of it quick enough and it can make you ill. If you are unhealthy it can even kill you.

Answer 10

yes its true. you can die from water intoxication cause then your organ cant handle all the water. alot have died from it while water drinking contests

Answer 11

Yes, you can get sick from too much water. My question is do you think you are drinking too much? Do you feel overly thirsty. This can be a symptom of some serious illnessess. (diabetes for one) or a side effect of some medications. If you feel overly thirsty or drink what you consider a lot of water, you should see a doctor.

Answer 12

yes you can die from water poisoning

Answer 13

ya it is called getting waterlogged. You don't throw up or anything, just a headache. You can get really sick if you drink 10 gallons in an hour.

Answer 14

i d k

Answer 15

no u just have 2 make sure you give it time 2 go thru ya system because if you dont release "go to the bathroom"  your stomach could bust a fraternity got into trouble while "hazing" they had the guys drink a bunchhhh of water and ther stomachs bust i cant remembe how man deaths occured but it was messed up

Answer 16

yeah actually you can and you can die from it too

(weird huh?) lol