Excess water in the body threatens kidney failure.
Convulsions, cerebral swelling and loss of consciousness are also possible.
General practitioner and nutritionist Anna Tsukanova warned about this.
The expert named the consequences of excessive water consumption in a conversation with the publication “Passion” .
How much water to drink per day and what are the dangers of excess
As Tsukanova explained, the daily water requirement is individual and is approximately 30-40 milliliters per kilogram of weight.
The nutritionist emphasized that this is the norm for a person with normal body weight.
If we pour three to four liters of water into a person weighing 100 kg, we will simply kill him, the doctor explained.
According to her, the average person weighing 60-70 kg loses approximately 2.6 liters of water per day.
700-800 ml of water comes with food, another 300-400 ml - as a result of endogenous oxidation of fats. About one and a half liters remain.
Excessive water consumption, warned Tsukanova, increases the load on the kidneys.
Long-term overload threatens kidney failure. The body also loses important microelements - sodium, potassium, magnesium.
This is fraught with disturbances in the functioning of the heart, nausea, dizziness, headache, swelling (up to cerebral edema), convulsions, confusion and loss of consciousness.
