[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[Greg A. Woods]

[ On Wednesday, April 17, 2002 at 07:41:38 (-0500), George Adkins wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)
>
> > You and probably most everyone here no doubt know not to drink too much
> > water too quickly, but don't over do it on long-term quantity either --
> > watch your pee and your state of mind.  You can O.D. on water alone, 
> <snip>
> Just a note to the folks out there, gastric distension, nausea and other 
> factors will normally prevent adolecents or adults from drinking enough water 
> to suffer from water intoxication.  The hazard for an average adult is very, 
> very slight indeed.

Not slight enough obviously, given the increasing number of people we
hear about on the news every summer.....  (not actually dying, but case
examples that had required medical treatment and which are raised by the
medical profession as newsworthy stories in order to try to get a
message across to the general public because the professionals feel the
problem is getting bad enough to warrant discussion)

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								Greg A. Woods

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