What is water intoxication?

2 much water: Think of yourself as a black box. Water goes in by drinking and eating foods. Water leaves by urination, stooling, perspiration, breathing. If your input overwhelms your output mechanisms, then your concentrations of electrolytes go down and you go "haywire" or have water intoxication. When you are exercising and sweating drink water with electrolytes, not pure water, to replenish what u lose via