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FitnessDoctor:
Patience is a virtue, learn to be patient to read and understand. Too much of everything is bad and that is what this post is about. Too much water is bad, too less water is bad, but the right amount is healthy and good for you.

Where is the confusion?

FitnessDoctor:
Hello, guy, it's your favorite health blogger, Paul Samuel FitnessDoctor

Take 8 - 10 glasses of water per day.

This is a health rule so many health professionals stick to, in fact, I echo it all over my blog posts anything I get a chance.

Normally, I would recommend you drink according to what your body tells you since everyone's body mass varies, but that might just be bad advice as well.

According to healthcare professionals, there is such a thing as drinking excess water and they complications are deadly.

Healthcare professionals have warned of the dangers of telling people to “drink plenty of fluids” after a woman was admitted to hospital with water intoxication.

After developing symptoms of a urinary tract infection, the 59-year-old increased her water intake, drinking more than half a pint every 30 minutes, which she hoped would “flush out her system.”

However, she quickly fell seriously ill and was admitted to King’s College hospital with dangerously low levels of salt in her blood, a potentially fatal condition if left untreated.

In the British Medical Journal case report, doctors Laura Christine Lee and Maryann Noronha asked: “We frequently advise our patients to ‘drink plenty of fluids’ and ‘keep well hydrated’ when they are unwell. But, what do we mean by that? Are there potential risks of this apparently harmless advice?”

The report describes how their patient’s condition continued to worsen after she was admitted to hospital.

“During her visit to the emergency department, she became progressively shaky and muddled. She vomited several times, was tremulous and exhibited significant speech difficulties,” they wrote.

Copyright: Paul Samuel FitnessDoctor (realfitbody.com)

“Throughout the day she had consumed several liters of water based on medical advice she recalled from previous similar episodes.”

Water intoxication although a well-documented symptom of some endurance sports can be deadly with symptoms including vomiting, headaches and nausea and in serious cases, confusion, seizures, coma, and death.

However, there are lower chances of water intoxication if you are drinking water according to what your body tells you, rather than going overboard because you read online that 8 - 10 glasses of water or nothing else.

So there you have it.

Source: http://www.realfitbody.com/2017/11/here-is-how-drinking-too-much-water-can.html

FitnessDoctor:
That totally depends on your body weight/mass, your metabolic rate, your daily activities etc. But around 6 - 10 glasses per day should be good enough

mamuzoOMAH:
lol. this guy don talk spoil. the last time I rubbed cream on my body, I can't even remember but I get fresher and fairer everyday. I have a very good hair now. It's full and dark. The last time I took injection was In 2008. that's also the last time I want to the hospital for treatment. I fall ill sparingly, like once in a year and all I need do is to take anti malaria drugs and in 3 days time I'm off to the field to play football. My sight and hearing are perfect. I'm easily one of the strongest and healthiest guys around. you know why? cos I take water a lot. I am an addict sort off. MY friends even had to rename me, Drinkwater, cos of the way I drink water. So what this guy is saying to me is utter rubbish. I will keep on taking my water and keep on living healthy. Drinking Water has never done any harm to anyone. Please always remember to drink water.

YoungRichRuler:
Very soon it will be....

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LadySarah:
All in all water is good,i've seen its wonders in my life.The key to everything is moderation

nwabobo:
Why not state the quantity in litres. All glasses don't have equal volumes.

Zhinurayn17:
it's too small though.. At least I use to take 5 liters per day

Alexrayz:
The question is how will you know the right amount

FitnessDoctor:
Patience is a virtue, learn to be patient to read and understand. Too much of everything is bad and that is what this post is about. Too much water is bad, too less water is bad, but the right amount is healthy and good for you.

Where is the confusion?

paradigmshift:
u drink small water, u get problem and you drink too much, u get problem. abeg make una dey go

Sexytemi:
One day soon I'm so sure we're going to read about breathing in too much air is bad

Roon9:
I don tire bros.... Shuuu

nwabobo:
Dude, this is based on scientific evidence, uiubtaking water a lot' is relative except you state the volume you drink in measurable quantity like litres.

Now, let me explain what the writer is trying to say. The body needs the right amount of electrolytes to maintain homeostasis and sodium is a very important electrolyte. Now, sodium moves with water and as the kidney takes out excess water from the body via the urinary tract in form of urine, sodium goes out as well. Drinking too much then will cause you to pass mire urine which means losing more sodium and if you are then not replacing the lost sodium, it can fall to dangerously low level known as hyponatraemia which can lead to nausea and vomiting, headache, short-term memory loss, confusion, lethargy, fatigue, loss of appetite, irritability, muscle weakness, spasms or cramps, seizures, and decreased consciousness or coma.

YoungRichRuler:
Very soon it will be....

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