A MUM was left fighting for her life after being told to drink more water to help get rid of cold-like symptoms. Nina Munro, 41, drank around four litres of water in an attempt to "flush out" her cough and sore throat . But the excessive amounts of water, combined with medications she was taking for cold and flu 'bugs', flooded her system and left her with life-threateningly low sodium levels in her blood .
As a result, the mum had a seizure and was rushed to hospital. Nina - who claims doctors told her they were unsure how she survived - was in intensive care for five days while doctors battled to stabilise her sodium levels. Now the government officer, from Queensland, Australia , says she only drinks when she is thirsty and restricts herself to a maximum of around 1.
5 litres of water a day . Read more on bugs "All the doctors didn't know how I survived it," she said. "I was slowing drowning myself and I didn't even know it! "My husband said I wouldn't do anything without a glass of water by my side.
"I thought I was a super-healthy person," the mum went on, saying she thought "someone was looking out for [her]" throughout her ordeal. Most read in Health "They wouldn't let me leave [hospital] until my sodium level began to increase. "I didn't see my daughter for five days which was so hard.
I didn't want her to see me in the state I was in. "The first few days in ICU I couldn't drink anything and when I left hospital I was on a restricted 1.5ltr diet and naturally now drink.