When Water can Kill you
When Water can Kill you
Your body has only 6 to 7% of the body weight as blood. So a 70 kg person has 4.2 to 4.9 litres of blood in the body at any point. Rest of the water is in cells or between the cells. It takes hours before the blood can adjust the excess with with the cells and other processes of the body like Kidney. And meanwhile a person can be dead.
Flooding the body with 6 litres of water at a time will dilute every mineral in your body by 140% and that is too much.
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How much water can kill you
Just think of a new born weighing only 5 kg. 6% of 5 kg is 300 ml water. It is not just water intoxication. It can be mother’s feed also which can kill a child.
If a mother is drinking too much water, it can poison the child.
The symptoms of water poisoning are – vomiting, loose motions, diarrhea, head aches etc.
More chronic symptoms are bed wetting, frequent cold and cough, sinus, chest congestion, poor eye sight, graying of hair, weak bones etc.
Kidney failure of new patients put on dialysis can be reversed in 48 hours if you have read the home page and understood. Immediately after dialysis the person should attempt fluid balance.
Kidney failure is nothing except fluid imbalance and resultant mineral imbalance.
So learn how to correct any fluid imbalance while you are this web site.
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