Indiana family shares warning after 35-year-old mother dies from drinking too much water on vacation

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Anonymous wrote:Ive only heard of this happening to people on mdma

weird comment

Is it? I've just never heard of it happening in regular life.

https://insiderexclusive.com/radios-deadly-stunts-the-jennifer-strange-story/

Jeeez that is horrible!! T"he DJ’s laughed about her condition even saying her distended abdomen made her look pregnant".

In a weird twist, one of these DJs (went by Lukas on the show) was Adam Cox. Adam Cox’s younger sister is Lori Cox, also known as Lori Vallow Daybell.

She’s the one who along with their OTHER brother Alex Cox and her husband murdered two of Lori’s kids. (Adam was not involved.)

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Anonymous wrote:My MIL sent me that older story with a note telling my that I’m an idiot for drinking water and that I should switch to Diet Coke all day like her.

Listen to your elders. Diet Coke is the bomb. It’s good stuff.

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Sounds like getting dehydrated was the initial cause.

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The kidneys (healthy ones) can process around 1L an hour of fluid. She drank too much water in a short period of time.

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The key factor that led to death following ingestion of large amount of water was the total amount AND RATE of ingestion of water, which did not allow the body to adjust for rapid decrease in sodium. Body can’t handle the rapid decrease in sodium.

This leads to brain swelling or cerebral edema, which leads to loss of consciousness and eventually death because the part of the brain that controls vital functions like breathing rate and heart rate get compressed with the amount of brain swelling.

To prevent this,
Drink water slowly, so that your body can adapt and regulate sodium passing in and out of cells so sodium levels stay within normal.
Drink electrolytes with the water eg Gatorade.

More reading here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5762960/

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Anonymous wrote:My wife nearly did this on an AIDS ride. Sucking from a camelback and another water bottle, while riding 100 miles. Her electrolytes got completely messed up -- thankfully, she checked herself into a medical tent and they knew immediately what it was. She was on an IV (banana bag maybe?) for several hours.

I was on that ride the year it was 100 degrees. It was brutal, and I remember the scores of people seeking medical attention. One person died.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

There must be. When I run on my treadmill, I drink one 16.9 ounce bottle every 15 minutes. That's how much I need just to stay ahead with hydration. It doesn't make sense that 4 would kill you.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

There’s more to this.

There must be. When I run on my treadmill, I drink one 16.9 ounce bottle every 15 minutes. That's how much I need just to stay ahead with hydration. It doesn't make sense that 4 would kill you.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5762960/

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Anonymous wrote:This is just crazy, and sad. 4 bottles in under 30 mins, while it seems like a lot I wouldn't think it would be enough to cause water toxicity.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/indiana-mom-dies-of-water-toxicity-after-drinking-too-much-water-on-vacation-family-says/3202496/

She must’ve been really petite.

I remember an older story about a young woman who died after a radio contest that was to drink as much water as you can. (The contest prize was an X-Box or something.) That’s when I first learned water toxicity was a thing.

Damn tragic….and scary.

it was a wii. Hold your wee to win a wii.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

Hydrating is not an actual scientific thing

What? It absolutely is. If you present to the ER with symptoms of dehydration they will pop an IV in you as one of their first treatments.

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Did she have an eating disorder? Because that’s not much water.

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Anonymous wrote:It says at one point 4 bottles in 30 mins, that doesn't sound like that's all she drank. Sounds like she was hydrating during the day consuming lots of water.

Hydrating is not an actual scientific thing

What? It absolutely is. If you present to the ER with symptoms of dehydration they will pop an IV in you as one of their first treatments.

IVs contain saline, not pure water.

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Americans are obsessed with drinking water.

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My aunt had to go to the hospital due to drinking too much water. She had mental health issues and would drink water obsessively. She'd drink way more than 4 water bottles per 1/2 hour.

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Anonymous wrote:Americans are obsessed with drinking water.

I suspect we still have more deaths from dehydration than over-hydration.