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Both can pretty easily do you serious harm if taken too far, up to and including death. Thankfully the survivable "buffer space" of "too far" is large enough t
by blooalien 2y ago
Both can pretty easily do you serious harm if taken too far, up to and including death. Thankfully the survivable "buffer space" of "too far" is large enough that people generally pretty rarely ever get to the actual danger zone.
Here's one fairly famous(ish) example of over-hydration being fatal: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865 https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna16614865
- insane_dreamer 2y agoyeah, I'm familiar with that tragic story but the reason for my previous post is because the upper limit for serious harm by over-hydration is quite high (it's difficult to drink that much water without urinating which was the key factor in that woman's death), whereas the lower limit for serious harm by under-hydration is not that low (not that difficult to hit) so I would disagree that both can "easily" do harm
- blooalien 2y ago> so I would disagree that both can "easily" do harm Easily enough but you're 100% correct that there's a fairly huge difference between the two extremes in how easy (or hard) they are to reach. Dehydrated to a dangerous point is most assuredly typically easier to achieve. Certainly easier by far to die from, too, as evidenced by how often the one happens compared to the other.