How much is too much?

@juliamae (127)
United States
November 6, 2009 10:49am CST
I was watching tv the other day and they were talking about drinking too much water causes ?cells? to swell and it will kill you. Does anyone know anything about this? How much water would you have to drink? Isn't that crazy. It is something that is so important to our survival, but can also kill us (drowning aside).
4 responses
• Australia
7 Nov 09
Of course if you have too much of everything it would cause you pain somehow or you could die. I wouldn't worry about having too much water though. Just drink how you normally drink now, but drink a bit of more water on hot days. To be honest, I don't even drink 8 cups of water a day. Sometimes I drink more, other times less! And look at me, I'm still fine and healthy. =)
@bwanna (282)
• United States
7 Nov 09
This would only happen if you drank extreme amounts of water. Also, we have more of a problem drinking enough water, not too much. So you probally don't have to worry about anthing at all, as I try to drink 12-14 cups of water a day (for my acne).
• United States
6 Nov 09
It's sounded strange to me at first because I know water is good before us, but on the flip side, I also know that over consuming anything can hurt or kill us. I have heard of this before a while back. But I heard something about consuming too much water and not enough salt or sodium can kill us. What does salt have to do with water? I've read somewhere online that it has to be a balance between water and salt in the body. I guess water and salt go together in the body, like bacon and eggs and peanut butter and jelly. I guess that explains why sweat has a salty taste to it, water and salt. I don't go around drinking sweat, but there has been a few times that some sweat spilled into my mouth while I was exercising or whatever.
@LiveLove (443)
• United States
6 Nov 09
I have heard about t and it does make sense. Almost any thing that s overly consumed can kill you. There is just a recommendation to drink 8 cups a day because humans lose water over time. But we are around 60-70% water so it would be imortant to retain that balance.