Comment on Exposure might cause suffocation

• brap@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s lacking all sorts of minerals, electrolytes etc that the body needs. I doubt a glass of the stuff wouldn’t cause problems but if you only drink pure water then you’re going to start having problems pretty fast.

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  • takeda@lemm.ee ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s basically distilled water, no?

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    • Wazowski@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Your body must regulate ion levels - sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium, etc. Drinking pure water in excess will force you to produce urine, and when you take a piss, you’ll lose some of those ions with it. Big, big problem. That’s why you need salt in your diet.

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      • Klear@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think you’re just salty.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So if your diet is a bit high in salt, would distilled water help counteract it a bit?

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    • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yea I think you're fine drinking like a litre of distilled water. Too much of anything will kill you, even regular water.

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  • Lazhward@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Would you really? Food also contains minerals and electrolytes.

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    • happydoors@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      You could certainly make up the electrolytes and minerals in other ways (drinking distilled water may even increase appetites for those types of foods). Still, drinking a liquid that leeches minerals out of the tissue around it isn’t healthy

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• sundray@lemmus.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The LD~50~ for pure H~2~O seems to be >90,000 mg/kg. (According to rat studies, so take it with a grain of salt.)

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  • Gurfaild@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you take it with a grain of salt it’s less toxic than pure water

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• Kornblumenratte@feddit.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Depends on a lot of circumstances – weight, kidney and heart function, temperature, activity. The people I saw developing hyponatriema drank more than 4–5 l tap water. Desalinated water will cause problems sooner.

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• Eddyzh@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s difficult to say and drinking a bit of sweat with every sib would help a lot. The experiment is that some of your cells in a dish with excess of pure H2O will suck themselves full till they explode due to osmosis.

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• doortodeath@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I think it has something to do about demineralisation, the water would absorb minerals out of the body

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