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Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by obalola007(op): 10:06pm On Mar 29

I drink up to five litres of water everyday, does it have bad any bad effects. Because they said it's good to drink plenty of water everyday... The professionals in the house, please shed more light on this for us..

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by doctore212(m): 10:16pm On Mar 29

Dilutional hyponatremia.

Meaning the level of sodium in ur body reduces .
It has some health implications

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Wealthyonos(m): 10:29pm On Mar 29*

Maybe you didn't know that the saying 'too much of everything is bad' applies to too much of water too. 😂

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by CodeTemplar: 10:59pm On Mar 29*

There was one of those woke ladies/girls around who overdid water intake thinking she had made a medical discovery of some sort. She "kpoofed" from swollen brain. Too much of everything is bad.
I think in UK or so it happened.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by meobizy(m): 2:25am On Mar 30

How do you calculate that you’re drinking five litres? Are you doing a physical job? Let me know first before I answer.

obalola007:
I drink up to five litres of water everyday, does it have bad any bad effects. Because they said it's good to drink plenty of water everyday... The professionals in the house, please shed more light on this for us..

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by oz4real83(m): 5:12am On Mar 30

You will spend all your life peeing every minute of the day which puts unnecessary pressure on your kidneys, no matter how good something is, too much of it is always bad.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by obalola007(op): 9:35am On Mar 30

I use 1 litre Coke bottle to measure my intake... Am into buying and selling...

meobizy:
How do you calculate that you’re drinking five litres? Are you doing a physical job? Let me know first before I answer.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by meobizy(m): 12:09pm On Mar 30

If you actually are drinking five litres of water every day and you’re not a labourer, get your sugar level checked. I am appealing to you to do it as soon as possible. If you wait any longer, you will likely regret.

obalola007:
I use 1 litre Coke bottle to measure my intake... Am into buying and selling...

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by as69: 8:30pm On Mar 30

meobizy is correct abeg. Constantly craving 5 litres of water daily when you're not doing heavy labour is a red flag worth checking out — that level of thirst (polydipsia) is one of the classic early signs of diabetes. Please do the blood sugar test first before anything else.

For context: the general recommendation for most adults is around 2 to 2.5 litres per day. Some people need more depending on body size, activity, and heat, but 5 litres with a desk/trading job is well above average.

Regarding the risks: your kidneys can only process about 0.8–1 litre of water per hour. If you keep exceeding that, sodium in your blood gets diluted — that's the hyponatremia doctore212 mentioned. It starts with headaches and nausea, but in bad cases it can cause confusion and seizures.

The water itself isn't the problem. But the reason you're drinking that much might be.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by doctore212(m): 9:58pm On Mar 30

as69:
meobizy is correct abeg. Constantly craving 5 litres of water daily when you're not doing heavy labour is a red flag worth checking out — that level of thirst (polydipsia) is one of the classic early signs of diabetes. Please do the blood sugar test first before anything else.

For context: the general recommendation for most adults is around 2 to 2.5 litres per day. Some people need more depending on body size, activity, and heat, but 5 litres with a desk/trading job is well above average.

Regarding the risks: your kidneys can only process about 0.8–1 litre of water per hour. If you keep exceeding that, sodium in your blood gets diluted — that's the hyponatremia doctore212 mentioned. It starts with headaches and nausea, but in bad cases it can cause confusion and seizures.

The water itself isn't the problem. But the reason you're drinking that much might be.

Am so happy that since I joined nairaland, this is the first time I didn't talk about olosho

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by LIVINGICONREBOR: 3:10pm On Mar 31

It depends on your level of physical activity, the nature of the climate in your environment.

I do drink more than that on some days. While on other days I struggle to reach 3 litres of water.

Moderation is key here. Too much of "everything" including water can be detrimental to ones health.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by meobizy(m): 6:12pm On Apr 11

Have you finally checked your sugar level?

obalola007:
I use 1 litre Coke bottle to measure my intake... Am into buying and selling...

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by obalola007(op): 3:29am On Apr 12

Yes, i did and it was fine.. Thanks for your concern

meobizy:
Have you finally checked your sugar level?

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by IamMobisola(f): 9:00am On Apr 12*

obalola007:
I drink up to five litres of water everyday, does it have bad any bad effects. Because they said it's good to drink plenty of water everyday... The professionals in the house, please shed more light on this for us..

Moderation is key to everything we do.
Yes, staying hydrated is good for the body but when you overhydrate your body, it has its risks too

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Haydens: 9:00am On Apr 12

There's a reason to this quote "Moderation in everything and too much of everything is bad".

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Excellent93(m): 9:02am On Apr 12

No your body is always dehydrated and youvneed more warer ...is far more better than consuming beer and other alcoholic substances

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by shadrach77: 9:02am On Apr 12

There is the chance of water poisoning. It's real. Reduction of sodium in the system

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Sirseedorf(m): 9:03am On Apr 12

I drank too much of water both night and morning, I pee too much,even at midnight I pee twice or once, I think am addicted to drinking water, my one spoon of rice in my mouth goes with drinking water.

I think the effects of drinking too much water is excessive peeing.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by marlow1962(m): 9:04am On Apr 12

Yes
It makes the kidneys not to excrete excess fluid causing a drop in blood sodium level. It is called water intoxication.
Drinking 8 to 10 cups a day will have no serious effect (as your body excretes fluid through sweat or pee), but drinking a gallon at ones is a serious health risk.

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Coder2Client(m): 9:05am On Apr 12

Too much of anything is bad

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Gerundphrase: 9:06am On Apr 12

If you are the type that smokes, drinks alcohol and introduce other substances to ur system then I don't think there should be moderation to the amount of water you take. Just drink water to stupor

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by PulaPower: 9:07am On Apr 12*

doctore212:
Dilutional hyponatremia.

Meaning the level of sodium in ur body reduces .
It has some health implications

But we eat sodium almost everyday?

Infact, many people have sodium in their body more than water..

Besides that, I’ve never heard of anybody dieing from drinking too much water..

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by fasho01(m): 9:09am On Apr 12

Too much of anything is not good

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Goo0dHardDick: 9:09am On Apr 12

Yes.

Drinking too much water makes you to loose weight

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by BOOKWORMLUX(m): 9:09am On Apr 12

You can't overdrink water, except if you drink yourself to death
Provided you re drinking whenever you feel like
Nothing bad in it

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by PulaPower: 9:09am On Apr 12

oz4real83:
You will spend all your life peeing every minute of the day which puts unnecessary pressure on your kidneys, no matter how good something is, too much of it is always bad.

Maybe if the kidney is bad, but drinking too much water doesn’t make you piss every minute..

I don drink like 5 sachets of water today already and I had just piss once..

And besides that, do you actually know the meaning too much of water? If you drink a bad of pure water in a day, that’s not too much of water oo..

I even doubt there’s any human that’s drinking too much of water. To me, many people are not drinking enough..

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Goo0dHardDick: 9:11am On Apr 12

Sirseedorf:
I drank too much of water both night and morning, I pee too much,even at midnight I pee twice or once, I think am addicted to drinking water, my one spoon of rice in my mouth goes with drinking water.

I think the effects of drinking too much water is excessive peeing.

Reduce your high intact of water. It's not good at all. Apart from excessive peeing, you are indirectly loosing weight

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by Fuckyoumod: 9:11am On Apr 12

obalola007:
I drink up to five litres of water everyday, does it have bad any bad effects. Because they said it's good to drink plenty of water everyday... The professionals in the house, please shed more light on this for us..

why will you drink 5 liters of water everyday?

You want to hurt yourself? over doings and over Sabi go wound una ooh

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by opera1(m): 9:11am On Apr 12

There is a limit for everything

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by mrvitalis(m): 9:12am On Apr 12

Drinking too much water too quickly can kill due to electrolyte imbalance

You can also flush out important micros

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Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by anonimi: 9:12am On Apr 12

Wealthyonos:
Maybe you didn't know that the saying 'too much of everything is bad's applies to too much of water too. 😂

In Nigeria, ANY amount of water from shitty boreholes is bad, and gives kwashiorkor potbellies.

InvertedHammer:
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It is by far better than Enugu.

500 gallons of water go for N20k. Multiply by 4 in a month, that's N80k. By extrapolation, that's N960k in a year on water alone. Why? Because the governor believes that clean and accessible water is the least of his worries. Yet they prance around like Enugu is Abuja even though the red muddy soil will have residents looking like they went tomb-raiding at night.

But then, considering where it was before Peter Mba, one can understand the accolades being that he moved the town from 16th Century to 17th Century but not anywhere near 20th Century. 21st Century is a stretch. EEDC? The worst of all.

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fergie001:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5v-F81hNTs

The Permanent Secretary, Office of Drainage Services and Water Resources in Lagos State, Mahmood Adegbite, has said that people drilling borehole in the Lekki axis of the state is probably drinking ‘’shit water.”

While speaking at a stakeholders meeting in the state recently, Adegbite noted that contaminated boreholes in Lekki pose health risk and added that treatment of waste water would eradicate any form of disease that may arise from it.

He said, “On waste water treatment, I will say that everyone digging borehole within the Lekki axis is probably drinking what I will call ‘shit water.’

https://punchng.com/video-everyone-digging-borehole-in-lekki-is-probably-drinking-shit-water-lagos-govt/?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMABDJjbGNrAwAEK2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEewOd7728C0FSKQJNWar4yKRxNpNKt1owSlw47y57FKAux2QxvQL24Iu18rtw_aem_3kB5Sd2GjpdqjN6zFuIs7w

Re: Does Drinking Too Much Of Water Have Any Effect? by princepee: 9:12am On Apr 12

I drink water like a camel.....
About ten satches of pure water in a day. So am here to learn

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