Drinking too much water can kill you?

Question

there was this radio station contest kinda thing and i think the contestants had to drink like gallons of water or something and one of them died? this was like a year or two ago, if you live in sacramento you probly heard about it.

i thought water is good for you?

Answer 1

The contest was: drink as much water as possible--and hold it in. Since the lady had to hold it in the lady had water poisoning.

Answer 2

Yeah I heard about that too;; too much of any fluid can idk it like drowns the inside of you or something like that :D

Answer 3

if u jrink over 3 gallons  

Answer 4

It's called water intoxication and the contest was called hold your wee for a wii!

Answer 5

its true, too much of anything is bad

Answer 6

yup

Answer 7

totally true

Answer 8

Yes, drinking excessive quantities of water can cause your bladder to rupture, or you can take in too much liquid through your intestines and effectively drown yourself from the inside.

I live in Davis and remember this sad story.

Answer 9

yes you can you drown from the inside out and your body is sixty percent water.just the necessary 6 to 8 glasses a day is all you need.

Answer 10

Drinking an insane amount of water in a short period of time can kill you.  Basically your body can only process so much fluids at a time...when your body becomes over saturated fluid leaks into your bowels which pulls salt out of your body and into the fluid.  This changes the concentration of salt in your tissues. This change causes a shift of fluids within the body which causes your lungs and Brain to swell.  

Brain swelling leads to death.  Water is good for you but you can't force more water into your body than you can process or bad things will happen.

Answer 11

it is good for you, but you can drown yourself

drinking too much of it.

Answer 12

Drinking to much water is fine. But maybe the guy bloated himself or it was just his time to die. Don't worry drinking lots of water is totally fine.

It'll just make you got to the bathroom again and again. Doctors say to drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.

Answer 13

Too much water can upset the fluid/electrolyte balance in your system, and it can cause problems. But you have to really over-do it The story about the lady is true.

Answer 14

drinking to much water can cause an electrolyte imbalance which is also called hyperhydration or water intoxication which means that the water has flushed all the nutrients and salts out of your system which your body needs.

The electrolyte imbalance can be corrected by supplementing some gatorade or powerade but in order for this to happen a person must consume upwards of three gallons of water in a short period of time. Not something the average person has to worry about.  

Answer 15

Yes,  it's called water poisoning. Your body and kidneys can only process so much before they're overworked and shut down.  xD

Answer 16

yea it can. once a man was trying to get into a club. he was told to drink 3 gallons of water to get in. hes not doin so hot

Answer 17

Yes, true.  Check snopes.com.  

Answer 18

It could kill you because if you don't pee in the contest because they don't let you pee to win. So if you don't pee you will die.

Answer 19

It is and the reason the person died is because they pretty much drowned themselves.  

Answer 20

Yes. I heard the story. It was all over the country. It can cause some  toxication that can be bad for your body. I remember she did it to get a wii.

Answer 21

It's all true - too much water for you can actually can either kill you or harm the body in ways you wouldn't imagine possible.