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Oh lordie lord.
People, don't fall for that influencer water challenge bullshit. Please.
Because a sudden rise in fluid intake without a change in habits is never a good idea. 4l won't usually kill you, unless you have a kidney or heart condition you didn't know beforehand. Which... Happens more often than even I would think.
Which leads to people getting nice cozy edema. If you are lucky only on your legs. If your unlucky you ignore these (being a bit bloated is normal, right) or your body simply doesn't like you and you get pulmonary edema. Which makes you sound like a boiling kettle from afar and ends with my colleagues and me either pushing a very very tight mask on your face that constantly pushes air into you if you want it or not, which makes you nauseated for days...or we straight up chuck a tube down your throat. Which at least has the advantage of you not witnessing the next step. Because we need to make you pee you get the holy grail of all golden shower parties, Frusemide. Which then leads to you,well,peeing litres. The very next step is nurse Edna with her hands that are the size of a snow shovel and approximately the same temperature pushing a catheter down your peehole into your bladder. Feels as bad as it sounds - but if you are awake you will beg her to do it because you literally produce more urine now than you can pee out. If neither helps you and you fucked up your organs really good your kidneys might not make it and you will need emergency dialysis - done through your chest with two catheters the size of a pinkie each pushed into vessels there. Also not a pleasant idea.
Why am I telling you this? Because... If I got a dollar for each guy (and with one outlier it always was a guy,not a gal) I had to work really hard to not let them kick the bucket in my care due to them having a "water drinking challenge"/"new year resolution" over the years I had 12 bucks which is not much but also far more than I would have expected. And for some reasons all of them called 20min before my shift is over.
(Source: Am a critcare paramedic)