Drinking too much water in too short a time is highly dangerous. It caused Jacqueline Henson's death.

Slimmer died in 'tragic accident' after drinking too much water during controversial diet
article in the Daily Mail

Extract:

"Support worker Mrs Henson weighed 14 stone and had previously tried dieting through Slimming World and Weight Watchers without success, but she enrolled with LighterLife after seeing a television advert.

Mr Henson and their children Michaela, 20, Chantelle, 18, Shirelle, 16, Jermain, nine and Simone, five, all supported her attempts to lose the pounds. And Mrs Henson was delighted with the fast early progress.

'She wanted to lose the weight after she gave birth to Simone, she was unhappy with the way she looked and she wanted to do something about it,' said Mr Henson yesterday.

'She was so paranoid when she used to walk down the street, she used to think people were looking at her because of her size.'

Mr Henson, a house husband from Huddersfield, said: 'I never had any worries about her doing the diet, she had a full check up at the doctors before she started the diet and got the all clear.'

On 14 November she came home from a LighterLife meeting after being given a 'reward' of powdered food for making good progress.

'It was just a normal night for us, she came home and cooked tea for the family and she sat down to watch I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, bringing two, two litre bottles of water with her.

'He said she drank the bottles in the evening as she didn't have time during her busy day.

'She had nearly finished the bottles of water and she stood up complaining of stomach ache, I joked with her saying it was probably the amount of water she had just thrown back,' he said.

'I told her to lie down, but she threw up about half a pint of water on the floor, I rushed to get a bucket and got her to the sofa. She laid back and a bit later threw up another pint of water. She kept complaining about having a headache too.'

At 11pm she went upstairs and minutes later was found by her teenager daughter Chantelle, unconscious in the bathroom.

She was rushed to Huddersfield Royal Infirmary by paramedics, but went into a coma and died."

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Dawn Page awarded £810,000 damages for diet advisor's harmful advice that lead to water intoxication and brain damage.

Hydration Diet woman awarded £810,000 damages
Article in the Independent

Extract:

"A woman who was left brain damaged and epileptic after going on a radical diet has been awarded more than £800,000 damages at the High Court.

Dawn Page, 52, who has two children, was told to drink an extra four pints of water daily and cut salt intake to prevent fluid retention and lose weight. But within days of going on the Amazing Hydration Diet she was vomiting uncontrollably and suffered an epileptic fit.

Mrs Page of Faringdon, Wiltshire, was admitted to intensive care, but has been left suffering from epilepsy and a "cognitive deficit" which has affected her memory, concentration and ability to speak normally.

Mrs Page was forced to quit her job, suffers frequent mood swings, and has relied on her husband, Geoff, 54, for help ever since.

Mrs Page secured a £810,000 payout last week from her nutritionist's insurer after a six-year legal battle. Barbara Nash, who refers to herself as a "nutritional therapist and life coach", denies any fault. The High Court in London ratified the settlement without mention of liability."

The 'nutritionist' should not have advised drinking all that extra water...)o: Antony Andrews, the actor, drank litres of water during a theatre performance years ago and collapsed and had to be rushed to hospital with water poisoning. He'd been influenced by that widespread stupid advice to drink lots of water...)o:

Symptoms of water poisoning include lightheadedness, vomiting, headache, nausea and unresponsiveness. It is clearly dangerous folly to tell someone that vomiting is fine and is "part of the detox process". BBC2 had a programme a year or two ago which found definitively that there is no need for, or benefit from, 'detoxing'.

Then there was that woman who died from water poisoning in a radio competition in Sacramento - http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/catheri...the_blame_game

Cavemen and women lived without added salt in their diet for thousands of years and that is how our bodies evolved, so unless there is a particular medical reason for an individual to have added salt, food with no added salt is the natural way for our bodies to thrive. Societies which in these days eat that stone age sort of diet live long and healthy lives.

I reckon thirst is the body's way of telling us we need water or other fluid, and that when we have satisfied our thirst we should not drink a lot of extra fluid. There's too much emphasis on hydration these days, in my opinion.