• @[email protected]
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    105 months ago

    You can dehydrate yourself by drinking too much water. You flush the salts out of your system and get water poisoning and die of dehydration anyway.

    • @BreadOven
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      25 months ago

      It’s not dehydration, it’s hyponatremia. The danger is due to brain swelling.

      • @Dasus
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        25 months ago

        It is dehydration, just a different type.

        Losing mainly fluid is known as hypertonic dehydration – or hypernatremia. Losing mainly sodium is known as hypotonic dehydration – or hyponatremia

    • Chloë (she/her)
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      15 months ago

      Yeah but my point was not drinking a huge amount, just enough not to have too much water or too little, like a glass of water every hour or something.