Drinking a large amount of water for a short period of time may lead to hyponatremia, water intoxication, and also aggravate the burden on the kidneys.
1. Hyponatremia: Drinking a large amount of water for a short period of time, the water dilutes the electrolytes in the blood, such as sodium ions, etc. Increased excretion takes away the sodium ions in the blood, leading to a lower concentration of sodium in the blood, resulting in hyponatremia. Sodium ions in the blood is too low, water will also have the opportunity to enter the cells, resulting in cell expansion rupture, life-threatening.
2. Water intoxication: Drinking a lot of water for a short period of time may lead to water intoxication, too much water intake, the body can not excrete, resulting in water retention and the formation of water intoxication.
3. Kidney burden: drinking a lot of water for a short period of time may aggravate the burden on the kidneys, because the ingested water needs to be decomposed and filtered into urine through the kidneys, drinking a lot of water increases the burden on the kidneys to decompose and filter the water, and kidney damage is easy to be formed in the long run.
In order to avoid the above harm, it is recommended that people do not drink a lot of water for a short period of time.