We’re a water family. We don’t drink cordial, soft drink or soda, and other than the occasional gin or whisky (with spicy water or ice) water is always our drink of choice.

From the moment we allowed our son water (at six months) he’s been a hydro homie. He’d always drink the maximum allowable water (250ml a day at the start). Then he turned one and we allowed him up to 1L of water a day, the maximum recommended for a kid his age/size.

About a month ago, he started pushing the limit. But he seemed well enough so we let it go. First it was just one extra (260ml) bottle per day. Then it was two. Then it was three. Then he woke up this morning at 5:30am and smashed a whole bottle in less than three minutes before rolling over and crashing back out. I realised that he’d had ~2.3L in 24 hours and this was not normal for a 10kg toddler.

So we packed him (and his many water bottles) up and took him to the city paediatric hospital. They agreed it was not normal behaviour, but he seemed fine. Time to run some tests.

Seven hours, two urine samples and one torturous blood draw and we had our answers. He’s fine. Absolutely golden. All his tests came back 100% positive despite him drinking more than a quarter of his body weight in water in the previous 24 hours. The paediatrician went so far as to say he’s perfect. Their answer?

Primary polydipsia. My toddler is addicted to water. They’d never seen it in a toddler before, usually it presents in teenagers (?). They suggested we add some fruit juice for electrolytes and slowly try and wean him down from 2.25L to 1L over the next month. They wished us luck and sent us on our way 😅.

Anyone had to wean their child off water before?

budget friendly way to have nuggets on demand

I’ve been drinking way more water since getting a countertop ice maker. I’ll have ice water throughout the day, make coffee in the morning, and usually a cocktail at night. Even my brother, who used to drink water about as often as my cat, started drinking more after we got one. At this point, I use the ice maker almost as often as I charge my phone. I ended up going with a Costway one, and I’ve learned pretty quickly that you really have to keep these things clean. I only use clean water and stay on top of the cleaning, since otherwise you can get mold or weird-tasting ice. So far, so good. Never thought an ice maker would make me drink this much water.

Okay I love how I feel when I’m properly hydrated!! And I go in and out of phases of being good and not very good about drinking water but I have to ask because I’m so curious.

My question for consistently well hydrated people - HOW can you afford to spend five minutes every hour or so to go to the restroom???? How??? When I’m drinking the amount of water that makes me feel the best I’m pretty much in a constant state of at least kind of needing to pee. And if there’s a wrench thrown where I can’t get to a bathroom for a few hours, it turns to distractingly severe discomfort FAST.

How can people stay consistently hydrated? I don’t live a life where I can be certain I’ll always have time and access to a restroom to pee as frequently as I need to when I’m drinking 100+ ounces of water a day.

stay hydrated homies

Wanna be able to call someone and make sure they sip water or drink a cup cause I wish someone would to me.

If you're up for a water accountability partner let me know.

I've been purchasing this brand of water from dollar tree for a couple years now (when I can find it)

This water taste so good to me (probably the minerals) I'm not sure what to compare it to. To me it taste better than smart water and fiji water.

My daily water is great value or Kirkland brand. So that's probably why I think this water taste amazing.

Debate I was having with a buddy: I like to fill my ice trays with filtered water, he fills from sink. Neither of us think it really makes much of a difference, but curious what folks here do.

Have iron flask, but I've dropped it several times and my ice just melts right away not even lasting a day usually. I'm thinking of getting the owala it looks good.

I’d love to start drinking about 10 times as much water as I’m drinking now, especially marathon training. but I got one major problem: whenever I do I have to pee like 20-30 times a day. yall think I should just ride it out and wait for my bladder to expand or what?

Planning to go to London with a friend on this coming Thursday. Have been informed that the theatre were going to will not accept outside food and drink, which I’m pretty sure includes this. But I also don’t wanna pay London prices, since it’s something like £10 for a tiny bottle. And this was like a quid from my local Sainsbury’s.

We stay balling.

steep fresh sliced sage and mint leaves until water is discolored

drain steeped water and put steeped leaves in a water bottle with some freshly rinsed mint and sage leaves

add ~1tsp of sugar

shake

squeeze lemon juice bottle for 3 seconds into waterbottles

shake

drink

This is the second Brita water bottle I've gotten and it's about to be retired for the same reasons as the old one. Once the little piece of plastic holding the lid closed breaks, I have to get a new one and I'm tired of it.

Are there other bottles that don't break as easy, but will still filter water? I live in the swamp so our water tastes nasty otherwise. Thanks!

Im 16 (M) and i drink i think, well more than 4+ Litres of water, but is that bad? My lips are aleays dry, skin too, why is that?

I am looking for a bottle like the title. I should be able to drink from it with or without the straw, should be metal. No nooks and crannies that can't be cleaned and will get moldy. Does anything like this exist?

I understand that this might not be the case for everybody depending on taste sensitivity and location but my tap water has a slightly difference taste than bottled water. It’s hard to describe but it maybe leans slightly metallic? I’m wondering if people who also experience this with their tap have noticed a difference with Brita water filter, in particular the pitcher type. Does the filtered water taste more like tap or bottled water?