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Water Challenge

  • 29-10-2012 12:27pm
    #1
    senorwipesalot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,458 ✭✭✭


    Have you ever O.D.ed on water?

    When I was about 13 a mate dared me to drink 20 pints of water in an hour.
    As Id nothing better to be doing I took up the challenge.
    After about the sixth pint I was feeling fairly full,however I foolishly soldiered on.
    I got to pint 18 before collapsing in a heap and unable to walk.
    Thats when the spewing started.I gawked water for about about 3/4 of an hour and had an unmerciful headache.
    Has anyone else tried the potentially lethal water challenge?
    (if you decide to try,do it before metering comes in)


Comments

  • #2
    Wacker The Attacker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,473 ✭✭✭Wacker The Attacker


    lightweight


  • #3
    Praetorian Saighdiuir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,968 ✭✭✭✭Praetorian Saighdiuir


    I'm calling shenanigan's on this one, that story holds no water at all!


  • #4
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    Link - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6263029.stm
    A Californian woman has died after taking part in a water-drinking contest, but why is too much water dangerous?

    We are regularly advised to drink more water: it clears skin, reduces tiredness and aids concentration.

    But the death of a woman in the US after taking part in a water-drinking contest shows you can have too much of a good thing.

    Jennifer Strange had taken part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" game, which promised the winner a Nintendo Wii. Afterwards she reportedly said her head was hurting and went home, where she was later found dead. Initial tests have shown her death is consistent with water intoxication.

    Drinking too much water can eventually cause your brain to swell, stopping it regulating vital functions such as breathing, and causing death. So what happens?


    Water enters the body when we drink and is removed primarily in the urine and sweat. The amount of water in the body is regulated to control the levels of certain compounds, such as salt, in the blood.

    If you drink too much water, eventually the kidneys will not be able to work fast enough to remove sufficient amounts from the body, so the blood becomes more dilute with low salt concentrations.

    "If you drink too much water it lowers the concentration of salt in your blood so that it is lower than the concentration of salt in cells," says Professor Robert Forrest, a consultant in clinical chemistry and forensic toxicology at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield.


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