Re: The Weekly Dirt, for 31 March '98
Amy Rupp wrote:
>
> > > much you have. Every year many people die from drinking to much water.
> >
> > You mean they drown, don't you?
>
> No, there's such a thing as water intoxication, more common in children
> than in adults, in which the body's electrolytes become so diluted and
> altered that the heart fails. Rare, and hard to drink that much, but it
> can happen. Cases reported in temporarily trying to boost weight for
> athletic purposes, etc. very rapidly and temporarily.
>
> --
> Amy Moseley Rupp (amyr@austx.tandem.com) Austin, TX, USDA z8b, Sunset z30
> Amy Moseley (amy@ece.utexas.edu) Graduate Student in Software Engineering
Thank you Amy.
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