• Heavybell@lemmy.world
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    6 hours ago

    The people who need to hear this sadly would not believe that too much water can kill you even if you showed them someone die from it, I fear. I’d also be shocked if they read “water poisoning” and didn’t think of poisoned water.

    • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      57 minutes ago

      I didn’t know this was a thing when I was younger, but not young enough to not be classified as a moron.

      Drank about 7-8 litres of water in 3 hours without going to the bathroom as a contest against a work colleague. Suffice to say I started feeling a little off on the way home, even after going to the bathroom. Years later I finally learned you can drown yourself from drinking too much and the symptoms were eerily close to what I experienced that night.