Did you know you can get drunk on water?

[DubiousIntentions]

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA: Amid the south grappling with a heatwave, people are trying their best to stay hydrated. However, for 10-year-old Ray Jordan drinking a lot of water did more harm than good. Jordan was out playing with his cousins during the Fourth of July weekend when he drank six bottles of water between 8.30 pm and 9.30 pm. He began exhibiting alarming symptoms at 10.30 pm prompting his parents to rush him to the Prisma Health Children's Hospital, where they were told he had developed a dangerous condition known as water intoxication.
Prior to being hospitalized, according to his parents, Jeff and Stacy, Jordan was having a lot of fun. Stacy said, "He ran outside with his cousins and started playing. They were full throttle running circles around the house, a bunch of boys together, jumping on the trampoline. [Ray] had gone in and gotten himself some water. What we didn't realize was how much he got."

Within an hour, according to Jeff, the boy's "motor functions were gone" and he "couldn't control his head or arms or anything," as per WISTV. The alarmed couple said, "He almost seemed like he was on drugs, drunk, even mentally handicapped at that point."

Ray Jordan developed water intoxication
Jordan underwent several tests before doctors found he had water intoxication and his blood sodium were dangerously low. The condition happens due to the kidneys' inability to cope with a big influx of water at once causing blood salt levels to go down. Stacy said, "They were giving him something to help him urinate as much as possible to get those fluids out because it was swelling around his brain - that was why his head was hurting so much."

Doctors gave him sodium and potassium from for eight hours from 4 am to 12 pm after which he started becoming conscious. The electrolytes in sports drinks don't dilute the bloodstream like water does. Goes to show you that too much of a good thing can be detrimental at times.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Yes, but only because I remember someone dying from water poisoning/intoxication in the news. Years ago, a radio show had a contest called "Hold Your Wee For A Wii". The contestants had to drink copious amounts of water live on the air without peeing. The winner would win a PlayStation Wii. One of the contestants who drank over a half gallon of water was taken to the hospital a few hours after the contest and she died from water poisoning/intoxication. I believe everyone involved with that radio show and that contest was fired. I don't recall if they were held liable in any way for the woman's death, since she willingly volunteered for the contest, and I'm pretty sure that no one had ever considered that a person could actually die from drinking too much water.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Corrections: The woman died in her bathroom the next day, the DJs were warned by callers during the live segment that the contestants could get sick and die, her family was awarded $16.5 million for her death, and the radio station went out of business.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Also it was nearly 2 gallons of water.

[DubiousIntentions]

I would never have thought it was even possible since we are 75% water anyway.

[NYCQuestions1976]

I suppose it's like filling a sponge and not wringing it out. Your insides get deluded.

[Daniela1982]

But these people did this on their own volition. No one forced them. You are supposed to do your own due diligence. But that is why there are warning labels on everything. Because dumb people play dumb games to win dumb prizes. They should not have gotten a cent!

[NYCQuestions1976]

@Daniela1982 Normally you're completely correct, but there was deliberate willful neglect and disregard on the part of the radio hosts. You should check out the YouTube videos.

[NYCQuestions1976]

Thanks for Most Superb, GaG algorithm! 👍

[DubiousIntentions]

I don't think the AI bot can hear your thanks.

[NYCQuestions1976]

@Dubiousintentions SkyNet is always paying attention.

[Anonymous]

Yes had this happen to a friend in the Marine Corps. We were getting ready to do a 30 mile road March, dead of the summer so like always they tell us to drink plenty of water. Dude drank a gallon in less than an hour. We were told he had water poisoning. We’re thinking sure POS just found a way to get out of this mandatory fun road march. Turns out he basically flushed out all his electrolytes which caused an imbalance in his body.

[kylee2437]

Yes and I have experienced it before. When I was anorexic, I would flush my body out with very little energy in me and I would feel the drunkness feeling often. It was absolutely awful

[DubiousIntentions]

Why did you continue then? Yeah, I can't see it being a good feeling. Kind of like the dry heaves feeling.

[kylee2437]

I continued it because feeling disgusting at the time to me was worth the unhealthy weight I was at. It’s a mental disorder. It’s pretty close to drug addiction in a way

[DubiousIntentions]

I hope things are working out better for you now.

[kylee2437]

❤️❤️❤️ I am actually a gym rat now lol In a healthy way though

[Aztecwarrior480]

I remember an old but hilarious TV show called 1000 Ways To Die did an episode on someone who died of water intoxication.

[Staximus]

It's not drunk, it's desalination to the point of near death. I don't think I'll ever have that problem because I'm a salty bastard

[Sparkie460]

I don't know anyone that it happened to but I have heard that you can drink too much water.

[exitseven]

It is called water intoxication but you are not really drunk.

[DubiousIntentions]

But you are out of it like you are drunk.

[exitseven]

yes you can go into shock and start to shake and get really uncoordinated.

[dolemite58]

it reminds me of the lady that died in that contest hold your wee for a wii back in the day.

[DJB72]

There's people die every year from it

[Wise4myage]

I did not know that!

[EaterPeter]

Absolutely, you know you can od on it and die?