Re: The Weekly Dirt, for 31 March '98
At 10:25 PM 4/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Amy Rupp wrote:
>>
<snip>
>> 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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This has been bothering me since I first read it. I assume the heart of a
mammal would fail under the same circumstances, wouldn't it? Such as 4-H
kids putting a running hose in a hog's mouth to increase its weight?
Margaret
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