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Strictly speaking, you can't know if drinking the water did that. It could just as well have been food poisoning or heat stroke, or you might have been dehydrat

• oelewapperke 15y ago
  That's true, of course, but he did go far above what a normal being can take : you should not drink more than 1 liter of water per hour, because your kidneys can only remove that amount of water per hour. If you drink too much water (> 90ml/kg is LD50, the dose 50% of people won't survive, so for a normal adult of 70kg we're talking 6,5 liters of water as fast as you can chug it in), the electrolyte balance in your nervous system will reverse, eventually resulting in the depolarization of all axons. Since this doesn't occur at all places in the nervous system simultaneously it will be a very painful and extremely scary way to die. Anyway the doses the GP mentioned are enough to create issues (anything > 1L/hour creates issues, and a sustained water intake of more than 1L/hour will eventually kill you)