Over Drinking Water Side Effects: People often advise you to drink more water, it will clear your face, remove all impurities from the skin, purify your blood and cure diseases. Someone gave the same advice to a 40-year-old woman. He tried for a few days. Some advantages were also observed. He felt his face light up. Then one day, excited by this, she woke up in the morning and drank four liters of water.
What happened next, she would never want to remember in her life. She was close to death. The headache started shortly after drinking the water. After this he started feeling nauseous and started vomiting. Within minutes, she began to feel dizzy and fainted after a seizure. He was rushed to the hospital. For four days she was fighting for life and death in the ICU.
Why did the girl reach the ICU?
After all, how did that woman reach this condition? What should be the limits of drinking water? How much water is safe for us? In the Indian Express news, Dr. Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist at the Apollo Hospital in Hyderabad, says that he was brought directly to the emergency room. In this case, there was more suspicion that he might have hyponatremia. In such a situation, the level of sodium in the blood becomes very low. This happens due to water intoxication.
When there is excess water in the body, the balance of electrolytes gets disturbed and the function of the nerves is severely affected, due to which the functioning of the brain begins to deteriorate. The girl was treated in an emergency and when her blood was tested it was confirmed that the sodium level was very low. Blood sodium levels should be between 135 and 145. But the girl’s blood was only 110. Dr. Sudhir Kumar explained that it simply means not to drink more water than necessary.
Then how much water should be drunk?
Dr. Sudhir Kumar said that the girl was advised by someone that drinking more water will detox the body and make the skin glow. But this is completely wrong. Drinking plenty of water is beneficial for the body. There is no point in drinking more water. Kidneys automatically remove toxins from the body. So there is no point in drinking more water. Drink water only as your body needs. Dr. Sudhir Kumar said that normally an adult person needs 2.5 to 3 liters of water a day.
How much water each person needs is different. Normally, when you feel the need for water, you drink water and drink enough but not too much. The body has many sources of water. The food you eat also supplies 20 percent of your body with water. Apart from this you also drink tea, milk, juice etc. So it is not wise to drink more than 3 liters of water.