Canadian TikToker hospitalised after ingesting an excessive amount of water for ‘health problem’

A Canadian TikToker, Michelle Fairburn has been hospitalised after she drank extreme water.

Fairburn was following the ‘75 Arduous’ health problem when she felt unwell. The viral problem requires an individual to drink 4 litres of water a day whereas additionally figuring out twice each day, for 2 months. If somebody skips a step, they’re required to start out the problem once more.

The problem was created by Andy Frisella, CEO of 1st Phorm Worldwide. 

Based on Frisella’s unique put up relating to the problem, it includes 75 days sticking to 5 guidelines: observe a structured weight loss plan, do two 45-minute exercises a day (one in every of which have to be outdoors), drink 4 litres of water a day, learn 10 pages of “instructional nonfiction” a day, and take a every day “progress image’’.

On the twelfth day of the problem, Fairburn started feeling sick and suspected that she had come down with water poisoning. She complained that she had been waking up a number of instances at evening to go to the toilet, felt weak, nauseous, and couldn’t eat.

When she visited the physician, she was instructed that she had a extreme Sodium deficiency and was suggested to drink solely half a litre of water as an alternative of the 4 litres she had been consuming.

In a video posted on TikTok, Fairburn stated that “Sodium deficiency really will be deadly. So now I’ll the hospital and they are going to test all the pieces after which apparently, they’ll increase my sodium progressively. I am nonetheless gonna do the ‘75 Arduous’ problem, and I am not gonna quit, however he says I’ve to drink lower than half a liter of water a day. I can’t consider that is really occurring.”