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Water: How much is too much?

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  • nimarama
    nimarama Posts: 3 Member
    edited May 2017
    More than 1.5ltr in a single hour is too much. In addition to what others have said above about how much is too much in a day, you can consume more than your body can handle in an hour before your body has had a chance to flush it out.
    That's not to say it's OK to have 1.5ltr -every- hour. It's definitely not.

    My body normally takes 90 minutes from drinking to peeing if I've had a full glass.
  • Chris_B89
    Chris_B89 Posts: 15 Member
    Christine_72 wrote: »
    DamieBird wrote: »
    Chris_B89 wrote: »
    . It's either squash or water.

    Not trying to be dim, here, but what is squash? Is this a typo? Are you getting hydration from vegetable squash? A local drink of some sort? It is delicious ;)?

    I've had such a tough time explaining what squash is to Americans. It's a fizzy drink, like coke, but lemon flavoured. Our lemonade is what you guys call sprite.

    Australian Lemon squash:

    Zombie thread...

    Squash in Britain is flavoured, and still. Think Ribena or Robinsons brand which you then dilute with water.
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    @Mokabear78, @Christine_72, and @Chris_B89 - Thanks for the clarification!
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    tomteboda wrote: »
    Well, the LD 50 of distilled water is 1/2 your body weight in 24 hours. I'd personally stop long before the dose that kills half the population.

    That's distilled water...

    Regular water is a bit higher.

    Distilled water kills faster because tap/spring water has some electrolytes
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    stevencloser wrote: »
    fbchick51 wrote: »
    The bigger concern is actually drinking too much too fast. Most of us with healthy liver functions can drink about 5-7 gallons per day without issue. But you also don't want to drink more then .08-1 ltr per hour either, as the liver cannot excrete more then 1ltr per hour (regardless of health or activity)

    5-7 GALLONS? That's over 20 liters.

    Yeah, there's 24 hours in a day.
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    fbchick51 wrote: »
    stevencloser wrote: »
    fbchick51 wrote: »
    The bigger concern is actually drinking too much too fast. Most of us with healthy liver functions can drink about 5-7 gallons per day without issue. But you also don't want to drink more then .08-1 ltr per hour either, as the liver cannot excrete more then 1ltr per hour (regardless of health or activity)

    5-7 GALLONS? That's over 20 liters.

    Yes it is. Which is why MOST water intoxication is not from drinking too much over the course of a day, as it's extremely difficult to consume that much water. Most water intoxication occurs when someone basically chugs too much water in a short amount of time (think endurance runner trying to rehydrate who chugs down 2 liters of water in 30 mins, a shockingly common occurrence)

    About half of water toxication events can be cleared up with a packet of chips or a salt tablet.

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