# Drinking salt water makes you go mad ?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-salt-water-makes-you-go-mad/192007>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-salt-water-makes-you-go-mad/192007 "2003-07-30T23:07:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![bobsmersky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bobsmersky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobsmersky)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-salt-water-makes-you-go-mad/192007/1 "2003-07-30T23:07:36Z")

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Or is that just in the movies ? : Our bodies need salt, and our bodies need water, so why can’t we drink sea water ?

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 31, 2003, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drinking-salt-water-makes-you-go-mad/192007/2 "2003-07-31T00:13:06Z")

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Welcome to the SDMB bobsmerky. 🙂  
Oddly enough, we just the covered problems involved in drinking saltwater a few days ago: [Drinking saltwater & getting thirsty](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=200749)