This can lead to water intoxication and sodium levels that are dangerously low, which is referred to as hyponatraemia.
Overhydration, also called water intoxication or water excess, condition characterized by an excessive volume of water in the body.
A US radio station has fired 10 staff after a stunt resulted in a woman dying from water intoxication in a bid to win a games console.
This may cause them to drink toxic amounts of water (also known as water intoxication or hyponatremia), which can be fatal.
The medical examiner concluded that she had died of "water intoxication," which usually means becoming overloaded with water without enough salt.
Water intoxication from excessive fluid intake is rare but can occur in patients with psychosis, in athletes, and in people who consume large amounts of beer (beer potomania).
Chronic treatment with dopamine D2 blockers in schizophrenic patients has been proposed as one of the causes of polydipsia and water intoxication, but this conclusion is still controversial.
The side-effects include nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, nervous disturbances, cramps and irritations as well as electrolyte depletion, water intoxication, bowel perforation and infection, kidney failure, pancreatitis or heart failure.
At other times, the kidneys may retain too much water, especially when too much hormone is present; in this case, water excess results, giving a clinical state of water intoxication, with decreased osmolality of body fluids.
In an online recording of the show, the DJs can be heard making comments joking about people dying from water intoxication, even discussing a case in Northern California two years ago in which student Matthew Carrington, 21, died after drinking too much water during a fraternity stunt.
