Anyone else had this problem when increasing water intake?

RobertCotton
RobertCotton Posts: 28 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
My wife and I recently bought smart bottles so that we could start tracking our water consumption. The app tells me to drink about 109 ounce daily and my wife's says about 50. After a couple days of hitting these goals we both started having diarrhea, its nice to be going on a regular basis, but I just wish it was a bit firmer. Now its been about a week longer and still have the diarrhea going on and it smells worse than normal. I keep telling myself that maybe its acting as a bowel cleansing and will go back to normal soon. Has anyone else had this problem when increasing your water intake.

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  • JBanx256
    JBanx256 Posts: 1,479 Member
    ummmm...drinking more water shouldn't result in diarrhea. At all. I mean if you were constipated, sure, drinking some more water will help with that, but just drinking more water than usual shouldn't cause stinky explosive poo. Nope. Not even a little bit. Disinfect your water bottles (or throw them away, yuck). If this continues any longer, get thee to a doctor because something else is wrong.

    And really, 50-100oz of water really isn't a lot in the first place. I drink more than 50oz before lunch and no issues.
  • RobertCotton
    RobertCotton Posts: 28 Member
    Thank you all for the comments, now that we know its not a side effect of drinking more water, I will grab some Imodium and go from there. The smart bottles just track how much water we are drinking, they don't filter the water at all. We probably have not been washing them enough, and will increase that. Thanks again for all of the comments. If anyone is interested, these are the bottle that we bought, too expensive to throw away, unless I know for sure that they are the problem. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RL91TSP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  • NovusDies
    NovusDies Posts: 8,940 Member
    RobertCotton wrote: »
    Thank you all for the comments, now that we know its not a side effect of drinking more water, I will grab some Imodium and go from there. The smart bottles just track how much water we are drinking, they don't filter the water at all. We probably have not been washing them enough, and will increase that. Thanks again for all of the comments. If anyone is interested, these are the bottle that we bought, too expensive to throw away, unless I know for sure that they are the problem. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RL91TSP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

    Yikes. Return those things!

    Unless your doctor has you on a specific water regimen you can tell if you are drinking enough water by just looking at the color of your urine.
  • adlenemomant73
    adlenemomant73 Posts: 24 Member
    more water intake shouldn't be unpleasant
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 989 Member
    Don't take immodium for too long. Read what it says on the packet / leaflet. It's good for temporarily stopping you going, but it won't cure whatever the underlying issue is. A week in, I'd be seeing a doctor or at least talking to a pharmacist at a chemist.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    BC (Canada) government recommendations for home treatment including when to contact your doctor:

    https://www.healthlinkbc.ca/health-topics/diar4#hw87342
  • lynn_glenmont
    lynn_glenmont Posts: 10,092 Member
    Where are you getting the water from? Is it from a source that you weren't using before, or weren't using before without boiling?

    There's all kinds of places you could have picked up a stomach bug, so I'm not suggesting it has to be the water, but if you got it from a source where you weren't reinfecting yourself, you would typically expect it to pass more quickly than a week. Increasing water and reusing these reusable water bottles are the only change in your lives that you mention. I know there are people who do not drink plain water, other than what they might use in coffee or tea, at all. So if you weren't drinking water from this source without boiling it before, it's something to consider.
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,416 Member
    edited June 2019
    I'm just circling back to ask OP if s/he is feeling better.

    I noticed that those bottles are $55! Whoa!

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