Y'know what is a good saying?
"Moderation in all things."
I've mentioned before that I'm a Psychiatric R.N. in another thread, and the older I get and the more I see, the more I believe that the above statement is very true. Too much of anything is bad for you.
The reason I bring up my job is that you'd think...hey...water...surely you can have as much as you'd like.
Then I had my first patient locked on my unit with psychogenic polydipsia.
He had to actually be restrained several times to keep him from drinking water from the toilet bowl. Too much water can actually kill you by lowering your electrolytes enough to cause cardiac arrhythmias and water intoxication and kidney failure. His compulsion to drink copious amounts of fluid was so overwhelming he was almost unmanageable.
The guy above is unhealthy, no doubt about it. But it's his choice.
The funny thing is...we don't allow people to starve themselves to death with anorexia, but we do allow folks to eat themselves to death.
-Rabittooth
"Moderation in all things."
I've mentioned before that I'm a Psychiatric R.N. in another thread, and the older I get and the more I see, the more I believe that the above statement is very true. Too much of anything is bad for you.
The reason I bring up my job is that you'd think...hey...water...surely you can have as much as you'd like.
Then I had my first patient locked on my unit with psychogenic polydipsia.
He had to actually be restrained several times to keep him from drinking water from the toilet bowl. Too much water can actually kill you by lowering your electrolytes enough to cause cardiac arrhythmias and water intoxication and kidney failure. His compulsion to drink copious amounts of fluid was so overwhelming he was almost unmanageable.
The guy above is unhealthy, no doubt about it. But it's his choice.
The funny thing is...we don't allow people to starve themselves to death with anorexia, but we do allow folks to eat themselves to death.
-Rabittooth
