Water intoxification? I have a very difficult time believing that a person died of too much water, which in my ignorant point of view, would be increasing your blood pressure to fatal levels. Now, how does a person consume too much water over a one day period. This to me smacks of radio BS that made it to media some how.
I have heard of ruptured organs that cause health problems and fatalities, but the report here says only that she died of water toxification. Had she died of internal hemorraging, blood clot, renal failure burst or ruptured organs, that I would believe. If she did die this way, she was able to overcome her body's many ways of equalizing pressure, liquid volumes, and hormones, which would have made her an interesting medical case study when alive.
Sunday, January 14, 2007
bit hard to swallow
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I don't think they diagnosed it right. Again, the reason I love Fox News -- they must solicit reactions to their stories and elaborate on the interesting ones. I think they also go by the number of hits the story receives on their website. Anyway, apparently it only happens in weird situations like this contest, or a hazing, rarely. But the science of it is that the water dillutes the sodium in your blood (fast intake, no output) and causes your brain to swell. She said she had a headache, and as if she wasn't low enough on sodium, she was crying. She probably passed out the problem was allowed to continue. Ironicly, a bag of Doritos probably would have saved her life (unless they were Habinero, which are instant death), or salted popcorn or peanuts, you get the idea.
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