• @yngmnwntr@lemmy.ml
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    1014 days 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.

      • @Dasus@lemmy.world
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        213 days 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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      112 days 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.