I just experienced the most traumatic day of my life so far.

My wife passed out and went into a seizure while at the store with her mother. So grandma called the ambulance and we arrived right on time to get the baby and let her mom ride in the ambulance with her to the hospital. She was unresponsive at one point, she was slurring words, her hands were stuck in a morphed position and she said she couldn't see multiple times.

Eventually they discovered that her glucose levels were around 40 and she was severely dehydrated. They got her on multiple iv's and got her levels back to normal and the symptoms subsided pretty quickly around 1:30ish. They did a CT scan and blood tests, the main culprit, apparently, was a walking pneumonia diagnosis. We still don't understand how she was so dehydrated (she drinks 2 gallons of distilled water everyday, maybe because the minerals are sapped out of it?) but she is feeling significantly better now and back home with the kids.

I've never dealt with a death in my family yet and always wonderes how I would handle it. Got a slight taste of that today.

Didn't have the chance to ask y'all for prayers, but somehow our entire church found out and started a prayer group.

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I'm glad she got the help she needed so quickly.

Praise the Lord!

Wait... Why the *<"( is she drinking distilled water? That's 100% not good. Geez.

But, gosh. My dude. That sucks. πŸ«‚ ❀️

She says drinking spring water tastes like toilet. Any resources you have on distilled water would be appreciated my man

I don't have anything for her if she won't drink water that's not distilled.

Not getting any minerals in your water, abs drinking 2 gallons a day, especially if she's on the lower end of the human scale (meaning she's not a big dude and women tend to be smaller than men, on average), drinking 2 gallons a day of any water might be too much for her system to balance if she's not getting enough salt and other electrolytes.

Oh, ill effin make her drink toilet water

Find out why she's drinking 2 gallons a day.

I work as a welder. I sweat a lot. I'm very large, still. I never need more than 1.5 gallons in a really bad day.

I actually appreciate this thread. I am so sorry for Bass's wife.

I too drink not-distilled but filtered pure water. I figure tap water is pretty dirty. However, I take natural salts.

Afraid of bad tasted heavy metal induced water. But, filtering minerals is not so good either, I guess.

Drinking 2 gallon or 2 litters of water was (still is?) once a big thing among women. For diet and health. I used to do that too.

I read an Eastern med doc's book that explains drinking a lot of water is not necessarily good and changed my habit.

So, 2 liters is a half gallon. Then, 2 gallons will be 4 liters. That is a lot.

8L.

~4L per gallon.

I think filtering your water is necessary, but... Re-mineralizing it is also better for your body. Water that is too pure, especially when one is drinking that much water, can dilute your blood enough to be deadly.

What is her diet like?

Dehydration despite drinking plenty of water could indicate diabetes (and the high glucose certainly supports this)

Besides recently needing to avoid citrus and dairy, she has a decent meat and potatoes diet. We eat organic. She in particular has a very low sugar in her diet. In the past she has had a hard time with holding solid iron levels, but otherwise, nothing crazy

40 is low, not high.