Lack of water

[Voadam]

Yes, but alive and doing well are two dirrent things. I have a buddy I game with that is constanly dehydrated - every so often, he bonks!

Now now, remember grandma.

 

[Eolin]

Gents, let's please not have the "water cleanses/does not cleanse your toxins" argument repeated. I'm still in therapy over blowing my sanity check on the one from a couple of months back...

EDIT: Let me amend myself. If it can be discussed civilly, I'm all for it. But I just want to avoid large arguments that force me to lock the conversation.

I'd love to, but I'm headed away for a little while.

I'll just say: lemon juice cleansed the body by hel;ping out the organs. Lots of water helps, too. So does Cayenne. sweet, awesome cayenne.

 

[Goblyn]

This is EN World - not Mortal Kombat.

There's a difference?

 

[Goblyn]

Yes, but alive and doing well are two dirrent things. I have a buddy I game with that is constanly dehydrated - every so often, he bonks!

Maybe I'm the only one here, but: WTF does that mean?

 

[Tetsubo]

I'm a big fan of water. Depending on how hot it is I drink anywhere from 4 - 6 liters of water a day. It's pretty much all that I drink. Cold water is one of my three favorite physical sensations...

 

[Hypersmurf]

When I was about thirteen or fourteen, I watched a friend drink seven litres of water in an hour. (That's an hour sitting at a dinner table, not running a marathon!)

He started hallucinating.

And if you nudged him in his chair, he started 'sloshing'...

-Hyp.

 

[Tetsubo]

When I was about thirteen or fourteen, I watched a friend drink seven litres of water in an hour. (That's an hour sitting at a dinner table, not running a marathon!)

He started hallucinating.

And if you nudged him in his chair, he started 'sloshing'...

-Hyp.

My personal record was a gallon of water in about 45 minutes. I had dehydrated something fierce and I was trying to put H2O back into my system.

 

[Turjan]

You can easily live with not drinking much water. For healthy individuals, this usually doesn't make much of a difference. The prevalence of kidney stones and of infections in the kidneys or the urogenital tract is higher if you don't drink much, the latter especially with women. The dehydration condition might get dangerous if you have to get some emergency surgery. Many older people suffer from dehydration (they don't feel thirst), and it's not good if you have to get heart surgery but cannot because the surgeons don't dare to touch you before you are rehdrated.

That said, I drink quite a lot of water. Then again, here in Arizona you have to. Most people who come here start changing their habits after their first circulatory collapse .

 

[Turjan]

When I was about thirteen or fourteen, I watched a friend drink seven litres of water in an hour. (That's an hour sitting at a dinner table, not running a marathon!)

He started hallucinating.

And if you nudged him in his chair, he started 'sloshing'...

-Hyp.

That's dangerous. You might get cardiac arrest because of this.

 

[glass]

Maybe I'm the only one here, but: WTF does that mean?

Maybe it's another one for the Divided by a Common Language thread, but if by 'bonks' he means what I think it means, the sentance is a bit of a non-sequitur.


glass.