Balance is the key to everything–from work to sports and to dieting, balance is the key to living a healthy life. This even goes for water. You have often heard to about drinking water regularly throughout the day to stay hydrated, but did you know that drinking too much water can cause serious health issues? Join us today as we explore the concept of water intoxication.
Your body needs water to operate–it’s just science–but it also needs salts and electrolytes to operate at a basic level. Water intoxication is the idea of over-hydration, that drinking too much water will upset the balance of water and salts. While dehydration leads to an abundance of these salts, over-hydration will dilute them, leading to complications such as headaches, vomiting, and muscle spasms. Severe cases can lead to seizures, and possibly a coma.
Over-hydration is most likely to occur in the very physically active who take in much more water than they need, or those who challenge themselves to a water-drinking challenge, and stick regularly to it. To combat water intoxication, all that you need to do is listen to your body–it has a mechanism to tell you when it has enough water. Once you hit that feeling, stop drinking, regardless of how many more cups you need to drink to meet your quota. Also, drinking liquids that have natural electrolytes and minerals in them, like spring water, goes towards combating over-hydration as they put the minerals you were diluting back into your body.
So long as you keep a healthy balance in your water consumption, you have nothing to worry about, but it is still good information to keep in the back of your head. You need water, but the right amount–the Goldilocks’s amount, if you will.
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