Drinking too much water could be Harmful. See why!

Drinking too much water could truly be dangerous to your health. Infact, taking everything too much could be harmful. The only one thing that can't be too much is often our blog daily and often. Lol
   In year 2007, a 28 year old woman died from a contest of drinking water. This might seem normal but to us at THB it rings a bell.
Drinking too much water could be very harmful, scroll gently and read carefully without skipping a line.

1. Ingesting more water than you need
can increase your total blood volume.
And since your blood volume exists
within a closed system (your
circulatory system), needlessly
increasing your blood volume on a
regular basis puts unnecessary burden
on your heart and blood vessels.
2. Your kidneys must work overtime to
filter excess water out of your
circulatory system. Your kidneys are
not the equivalent of a pair of
plumbing pipes whereby the more
water you flush through your kidneys,
the cleaner they become; rather, the
filtration system that exists in your
kidneys is composed in part by a
series of specialized capillary beds
called glomeruli. Your glomeruli can
get damaged by unnecessary wear and
tear over time, and drowning your
system with large amounts of water is
one of many potential causes of said
damage.
Putting unnecessary burden on your
cardiovascular system and your kidneys
by ingesting unnecessary water is a
subtle process. For the average person, it
is virtually impossible to know that this
burden exists, as there are usually no
obvious symptoms on a moment-to-
moment basis. But make no mistake
about it: this burden is real and can hurt
your health over the long term.
Forcing your body to accept a large
amount of water within a short period of
time - say, an hour or two - as several
contestants did during the "Hold Your
Wee for a Wii" contest can be fatally
dangerous to your health. Here's why:
If you force large amounts of water
into your system over a short
period of time, your kidneys will
struggle to eliminate enough water
from your system to keep the
overall amount at a safe level.
As your circulatory system
becomes diluted with excess water,
the concentration of electrolytes in
your blood will drop relative to the
concentration of electrolytes in
your cells. In an effort to maintain
an equal balance of electrolytes
between your blood and your cells,
water will seep into your cells from
your blood, causing your cells to
swell.
If this swelling occurs in your
brain, you'll experience increased
intracranial pressure i.e. your brain
will get squeezed because the flat
bones that make up your skull
don't provide much give.
Depending on how much water
your drink in a short period of
time, you could experience a wide
variety of symptoms, ranging from
a mild headache to impaired
breathing. As occurred in the tragic
water-drinking contest, it's quite
possible to die if you drink enough
water in a short period of time.
This information is particularly important
for parents to pass on to their children.
Foolish drinking contests are not
uncommon among high school and
university students, especially while
playing cards.
Hope you learnt something?. So avoid taking excess water which we have read above could be very harmful to you and I.