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health advisory Hospital Diseases 2007-11-12 20:36:33

what r the symptoms?

Answer:

Water INTOXICATION.

Initial symptoms typically include light-headedness, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache and/or malaise. Plasma sodium levels below 100 mmol/L (2.3g/L) frequently result in cerebral edema, seizures, coma, and death within a few hours of drinking the excess water. As with alcohol poisoning, the progression from mild to severe symptoms may occur rapidly as the water continues to enter the body from the intestines or intravenously.

This became big when a woman died in Sacramento trying to win a game console for her kids in a radio station contest. (NOT Las Vegas)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/jennifer_st...

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Some lady just died recently from water intoxication here in my city (Las Vegas) because she drank a couple gallons of water for a radio station game. They said she was acting like she was drunk, she was confused, and later on she was found dead. It's supposed to be like drinking too much alcohol - you get sick, slur, and get confused. At least that's what I heard from that lady's symptoms.

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Water intoxication (also known as hyperhydration or water poisoning) is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain function that results when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside of safe limits by a very rapid intake of water.

Initial symptoms typically include light-headedness, sometimes accompanied by nausea, vomiting, headache and/or malaise (malaise=general overalla feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, an "out of sorts" feeling, often the first indication of an infection or other disease.)

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