Water Toxic Poison?

[zipster_dude]

Anyone hear of that girl who died from drinking too much water? I heard she was competing in a radio contest and died from taking in too much water at once. Anyone else hear of this? Got any details?

[fLgAtOr]

Yeah, it was all over the news...

This will probably get moved to the louge though.

[smiler]

yea, you can't just down 2 gallons per min. but for those of us who drink tons of h2o ed, it would be rare to see such an effect. her body obviously wasn't used to processing a-lot of water. still....don't pound a gallon per minute, what's the point?

[LeadPencil]

over hydrated anyone can die from this too much-too fast

[aknopf95]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/13/wat....ap/index.html that's a link to the cnn article about that girl, just in case people didn't know about it until they read this thread

[StoneGRMI]

It's from taking all the electrolytes/sodium out of the body. If she could have had one gatoraid instead of water she would most likely be alive.

[x_moe]

so she would have stayed alive i assume if she just went to the bathroom?.. she could have cheated on that contest