Anybody Ever OverHydrated?

“i hear you cant drink a gallon of milk in an hour or less”

“I can eat 50 hard boiled eggs in an hour.....”

“Drinking water really does help with facial wrinkles if you stay hydrated.”

“Hyponatremia! Yes it is very real. A result of diluted sodium concentrations in the blood. Most often seen in a weight gain in endurance exercise lasting over 5 to 7 hours. Symptoms are frequently misdiagnosed as severe hydration, thereby, exacerbating correct medical treatment. Since I run "ultra" distances and hang around people that do the same, I'm very familiar with this condition. When performing long endurance exercise, I use sodium capsules (electrolytes, if you will--Gatorade doesn't provide enough sodium at correct concentration levels) to help the stomach process fluids in the stomach.

Oh, and about that gallon of milk in an hour...give me enough PB&J's and that milk is as good as gone!”

“Like a ripe watermelon, fixin' to bust.”

“Search through the TT running threads.

This had been discussed several times over the years with links to examples of individuals who have met their maker from sucking down the water without replacing the salts.”

“It happens from time to time with people in super endurance races - marathoners or ultra runners are the most common victims.

like what hubcap said.”

“Once, thought I was going to die. Way too much water and not enough salts.”

“I've had in imbalance of too much water, not enough salt. I don't think it was full-fledged Hyponatermia, more like a pre-stage. No more symptoms after I cut water intake back down to normal levels. I believe it was affecting my kidneys which cause other side-effects. I was on a no-added-salt diet at the time.”

“Gatoraid now makes an "Endurance" formula with increaced Na+, Cl+, and K+ to combat hyponatremia. Experts say to bring along salty snacks and eat a little every time you drink while active in very hot weather.”

“All of this being said - a word of CAUTION -

It is MUCH easier to not get enough water and too much salt than the other way around.

DRINK WATER”

“Absolutly, although someone just posted about the Bright Angel Trail in the Grand Canyon. Hiking back up out of the canyon in 90 degree heat is a perfect example of a risk factor for electrolyte imbalance. Not dayhiking in your local park. Stay informed, use judgement, be careful.....”

“Biz, honey, you roped a whole new generation of dumbasses into the overhydrating discussion...what a crackup!”

“-B-l-o-w-M-e-

read between the lines”

“There was a time I was drinking 3 - 5 gallons of water and lemonaide a day. It turned out I had hypercalcemia due to a tumor and that I craved water because it flushed out the calcium. The surgeons told me the excess water probably saved me from severe organ damage due to the calcium, it certainly did no harm.

I've dealth with psychiatric patients with hyponatremia. It seems to be hard to over-hydrate unless you already have vulnerabilites to it, but it can be done.”

“I see it a lot with Tube feeds and patients with liver damage/ascites. It can be deadly, but I wasn't talking about the clinical causes, just the ones that apply here. You were lucky Ped, The Ca+ could have damaged your kidneys, glad to hear everything's ok!”

“Yeah. It all comes down to balance like so many other things.
All things in moderation.
It is refreshing to see so many people on TT tuned in to so many medical variations on this theme.

I have been close but that was because I ignored the advice of more experienced people to take a salt tablet at the time.”

“Just once: on the PCT we had a very very long hot and dry stretch between water sources near San Gorgonio Pass - 23 miles and a 7000' descent. We were totally exposed to the sun all morning. (We camped midway.) The temperature was in the '90's. When we finally arrived at the water source, I drank down about a gallon of water, waited a little bit and drank more. The only shade was from a large boulder. We sat there for a couple of hours. I drank until I was sick. It's not fun. At the time I was just aware that I was really really thirsty. Growing up in the desert I learned not to do that - not to drink water that is really cold or too much at one time. But I ignored what I knew because I was so thirsty. Oh well, I survived.”

“When I was working in mental health, the security aides had to keep a very close eye on those patients diagnosed with polydipsia. They would literally kill to drink water, if given the chance, and would drink themselves to death.”

“Mutt - I always wondered if there was some biological reason for all the "psychogenic polydipsia." Were they trying to flush the meds from their system. Diabetes and some toxic events are highly linked.

I guess I technically had biologically related polydipsia.”

“Backslacker: I got a thorough understanding of why I craved water. Do you have any guess as to why I would have craved lemon? Was it just that electrolytes in lemonade got associated in my mind with the taste of lemon or would the acid in lemonaide help flush out or neutralize calcium?”

“Were they trying to flush the meds from their system.

I don't think the psychiatrists really knew jack about it (which of course was not unusual in the least). They claimed the patients tended to have a belief that drinking water would cleanse themselves of their mental illness.”

“Oh, and even more dangerous than the pts who wanted water were those who wanted Dr. Pepper! It was a big no-no to have any softdrink in the wards.”

“I'm not sure, I know that Citric Acid and or Ascorbic Acid improves the bioavailability of Calcium which could lower serum Ca+ levels, as the body more readily absorbs it. Not fact, just a hunch.....Need to break out the old text books LOL”

“There was that time I drank a case of beer at Talledega...

I would say I was pretty "hydrated" that day.”

“When I was an Infantryman years ago they made us drink so much water in the summer months during training that I would sometimes get heart burn and thats the only time I evr got heartburn.”