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At least with people, the greater the imbalance of sodium and water, the
greater the effect of the brain and ability to reason. The more they drink,
the more they want to drink. It's terrible to have to turn off the water
supply to a room in the hospital and post a staff member to keep the patient
from drinking while they try so hard to convince you that if they could just
have a little sip.......then you have to lock the bathroom door because they
are drinking from the toilet.

Watch "Bringing Out The Dead" with Nicolas Cage. There's a water intoxicator
in the movie.

Maggie

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From: <Jon.Linderman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Mike & Kathy Kelly" <reallykk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <ridecamp-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:36 AM
Subject: Re: [RC] [Guest] Adios


> I am not sure of the particulars regarding Adios death, however, it has
not
> been altogether uncommon for people to suffer problems associated with
> hyponatremia.  Hyponatremia is a low sodium concentration in the blood.
> Water basically follows sodium into body compartments.  Loss of sodium in
> sweat, particularly in people who have borderline low sodium in the blood,
> and/or people who tend to overdrink and have a somewhat dilute sodium
> concentration in the blood, or people who genetically have very salty
> sweat, or combinations of these problems may develop a very low sodium
> concentration in the blood, leading to severe edema, central nervous
system
> dysfunction, coma, even death.  Several triathletes and other endurance
> athletes have been suffering problems recently.  In one case a young woman
> literally changed before the viewers eyes as water moved from the blood
> compartment to the interstitium area between cells.  After the bike
portion
> of a triathlon she was lean and taught, 1/2 thru the run she appeared
puffy
> and swollen as water moved into the interstitium and she had severe edema
> (swelling).  She collpased into a coma, but later recovered.  Not sure if
> horses have similar issues, but the key with sodium is that it maintains
> body fluids in their proper compartments and maintains blood pressure
> (hence low sodium in people w/high blood pressure).
>
> Jon K. Linderman, Ph.D., FACSM
> Assistant Professor of Health and Sport Science
> University of Dayton
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>                       "Mike & Kathy Kelly"
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> I know there was fairly recently a case of a marathon runner (I believe it
> was a woman) dying from water toxicity.
>
> Kathy Kelly
>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: MtnRondi@xxxxxxx
>  To: ridecamp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2003 12:24 AM
>  Subject: Re: [RC] [Guest] Adios
>
>  After reading about the two horses that consummed too much water it made
>  be think about something I had read on one of my dog lists. They were
>  discussing "water toxicity" in dogs and I guess it can happen in humans.
>  Maybe this was a case of water toxicity in horses.
>
>  In dogs that drink too much water (like from a swimming pool or garden
>  hose in play) the symptoms of water toxicity are: seizures, stomach pain,
>  vomiting, loss of bladder control, electrolytes out of balance, glucose
>  elevated. The potassium & sodium is life threatenly low.
>
>  So my question to the vets out there... are there documented cases of
>  water toxicity in horses like there are in dogs and people?
>
>  Bonnie
>  So. Calif.
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