Can anything bad come from drinking too much water?

Question:

I know it's bad not to drink enough, but what about too much? Does that rinse your system of certain chemicals, or anything like that?

Answers:
Drinking too much water can remove eloctrolites which are the things that cause synapses. The slowing of synapses can cause muscle weakness, shaking, things like that. When that happens all you need to do it eat something salty which will help the body retain more of the water so you do not feel as weak.

NO!water is best.

It is actually possible to drink too much water.
You would have to drink a lot for it to have a negative effect - but it does happen. It dilutes the sodium levels in your bloodstream - particularly if you live in a very hot climate and are drinking lots of plain water while you are sweating.
The low sodium level results in brain swelling, reduced consciousness then fitting.

You can become water toxic and it alters your electrolytes.

oh yes it can..

it's called hyponatremia or “water intoxication".

It's rare except among ecstasy users who tend to drink water constantly to combat heat and sweat.

It dilutes the sodium content in your blood and electrolyte levels.

It starts off as weakness and progresses through to brain damage, coma, and death.

OK, how do I get a thumbs down when all but one of the answers here are exactly the same? 'cause I mention drug use? It is most common in ppl that use drugs that raise body temperature. Anyway, here's a link to a short rundown on ecstacy use and hyponatremia.

http://www.erowid.org/chemicals/mdma/mdm.

yes you can drink too much water. Its alot and I know of noone who has but if you drink too much water you can have a water toxicity, an electrolyte imbalance that can be fatal. Its a huge amount of water. As a rule water is fine, as much as you wish to drink.

I had that problem in May of this year & ended up with kidney stones.

no. but youll pee alot

yes it's bad to drink to much water and there is such thing as getting drunk from water and you'll get sick and throw up just like drinking alcohol

You could pee the bed.

No nothing bad will come of drinking too much water - save maybe having to pee all the time and they can interrupt your schedule.

I was drinking close to two gallons everyday over the summer and had the softest skin and hair. But fall has hit and I do not drink near the water I do in the summer and my skin is getting dry

what ever dealing with "TOO MUCH" means you go beyond the STANDARD of perfection and this apply to everything in our life. Too Much water would definitely have the side effect especially the quality of drinking water which is not up to standard of what your body need or acceptable and even the quality of water is as per our body standard but TOO MUCH would regard with STORAGE and storage wold be relate to DIMENSION and so on and so on. The best is stick to LAW & REGULATION OF OUR BODY known as BODY SYSTEM .

yes you can over hydrate. Your cells could fill up and explode from too much water. there is balance for each person, you have to find your own.

Can anything bad come from drinking too much water?

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