Originally Posted by lianluo
Hey, just a mild caution. You can kill yourself that way. It's called Hyponatremia-fluids to electrolyte imbalance. I spent several hours in an emergency room after drinking too much water. I'd never heard of it until then.
It does on occasion kill people. The case I've heard of is people "studying" for a drug test.
Things we regard as safe are simply things for which the lethal dose is far beyond what we can normally consume. There is nothing that isn't lethal in sufficient quantity. (And I include air in that--the limit on deep-sea diving is when there is no longer any mix you can safely breathe.)