http://sciencecases.lib.buffalo.edu/cs/files/hyponatremia.pdf


Should there be more educational coverage about hyponatremia ?


Edema is also a serious disease of the same family but it happens in the mountains.

Little kid: Can you die from drinking too much water?
Me: Yes you little shit. It's called drowning.

you know you have to be one BIG idiot to drink enough water volentarilly to die.

You know you have to be one BIG idiot to spell voluntarily as volentarilly...

you know you have to be one BIG idiot to care.

You know you have to be one BIG idiot to keep saying "You know you have to be one big idiot."

you know you have to be one BIG idiot to insult a wannabe running joke.

I'm not insulting the joke; I'm insulting you, moron.

hehe like i care.

You know you have to be one BIG idiot to try reading this thread.

you know you have to be one BIG idiot to even come to this thread.

oh this was a real concern to parents when i was in high school and ecstacy started getting popular. not sure if it's true or not but they thought people on ecstasy would drink a lot of water and od and die. not sure if it was from just being out of your head, super dehydrated, or too mmuch dancing, but taking ecstacy made you crave gallons of water. or so i was i told by squares who probably didn't know what they were talking about.

lol.

I wouldn't know. I'm 14, and I have never heard of ecstacy.

Unless it's sexual.

... ^^^ yeah sure.

Ecstacy is a drug. There's a very funny family guy episode where Peter does ecstacy. Ecstacy makes everything fuzzy and cool side of the pillow.

i know what ecstacy is, ive just never heard of it.

ecstasy (countable and uncountable, plural ecstasies)


Ecstasy (MDMA) tablets
Intense pleasure.  [quotations ▼]
A state of emotion so intense that a person is carried beyond rational thought and self-control.
A trance, frenzy, or rapture associated with mystic or prophetic exaltation.  [quotations ▼]
(obsolete) Violent emotion or distraction of mind; excessive grief from anxiety; insanity; madness.  [quotations ▼]
(slang) The drug MDMA, a synthetic entactogen of the phenethylamine family.
(medicine, dated) A state in which sensibility, voluntary motion, and (largely) mental power are suspended; the body is erect and inflexible; but the pulse and breathing are not affected.


https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ecstasy


Slang Definition Example from Wiktionary :

"grass is slang for marijuana"

[...]

Censer is aromatic grass. Aromatic grass was smoked everywhere.

The Family of Cannabaceae are plants with flowers "unlike" grass.

Slang logic.

Edited 7/8/2015 23:20:30

@OP

Water intoxication? I am not an expert, but dying from overdrinking water is probably not intoxication? I remember few years ago I read about similar case in local media. In hot summer an elderly man drank around 8 liters of ice cold water within around 30 minute or an hour and died.

Before that I had never even came to thought about it, it would be possible. In his case it although was more probable as you get older your kidneys are not exactly in shape.

But I believe you must force yourself rather hard to get to that point. Just think how much water you can drink up to point where you feel full? Its not even close th these amounts.

A little side-topic. To me it is a new level of idiocy of food-eating contests with puke buckets, alchol or now as I read even water drinking contests. Yeah, waiting to see that in olympics!

Another thing you see every-day whether summer-winner, Finnish-Turkish bath or simply drinking out of thirst, people like to consume ice-cold water thinking it would cool them down? I wonder when this knowledge get lost in transition? People need to drink body-temperature water, so stomach could start spreading it cells and around the body. Drinking cold-water in hot summer day means that first your body takes and hour or 2, depending how much you drink and starts heating it, before you could actually benefit from it. Some thing that commercials have profoundly altered peoples feeling-sensation, that they actually feel cool, breeze when drinking cold in hot-heat situations.

Every decent athlete, workmen knows by his/her experience the true negative side effects of cold water drinking during heavy physical activity!

Basically what I want to say is that aside from that hype intellectual talk, advancement in world, we actually can´t even eat nor drink properly!

But speaking about the water intoxication. You should look into about fluoride and chloride particles in water supplies. It is becoming more and more public, that it actually might be the cause for higher rate of "bad pregnacies", mis-carries, syndromes etc. + Decreases childrens mental and physical well-being + poisoning ourselves around the lifetime! In EU the norms are pretty good and restricted, but still needs some work!

Edited 7/9/2015 00:07:53