A resident of the English city of Patchway was hospitalized for drinking five liters of water daily to protect against COVID-19. The Daily Mail reports.
34-year-old Luke Williamson (Luke Williamson) learned during the first quarantine imposed in the UK due to the pandemic, about the benefits of drinking water in the fight against coronavirus. “For a week he suffered from weakness, and he was advised to drink plenty of fluids,” recalls his wife Laura. “One evening he went upstairs to take a bath, after which I heard a rumbling sound. He got out of the bath and fainted.”
Laura called the paramedics and talked to her husband through the closed bathroom door so that he would not lose consciousness. According to her, the rescue team arrived 45 minutes later, and for the last 20 minutes, her husband did not react to her words. “I was so scared that I had already lost him,” says Laura.
Williamson spent about three days in the intensive care unit, connected to a ventilator. During the examination, the doctors found that the patient suffered from overhydration (water poisoning) – an excess of water in the body.
Due to the critically low level of sodium in the body, the British suffered cerebral edema. The patient received the necessary assistance and was sent home. According to Laura, her husband has already returned to work, but his health has not fully recovered. “He still gets tired quickly,” she said.
Earlier in the US state of Colorado arrested a man and a woman who forced their son drink water and ruined him. The cause of death was overhydration.