Warning,'party drug'users, woman dies from drinking too much water

[dotr]

rbbm.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-mom-mdma-daughter-death-1.3811874

Leanne Germain was 23-years-old when she died in February. Her mother says she died from a combination of taking MDMA and drinking too much water. (Aly Sesak Photography)

A Winnipeg mother says her 23-year-old daughter died from drinking too much water after she used the illicit drug MDMA.

Last February, doctors told Linda Kyrzyk a combination of thirst-inducing MDMA and drinking too much water caused her daughter Leanne Germain's brain to swell, killing her.
"I just remember yelling, how do you die from drinking water?" said Kyrzyk. "It's just something you can't believe."

Kyrzyk said her daughter was at a small house party on a Saturday night and was found unconscious the next morning.

By piecing things together with information from Leanne's friends, Kyrzyk said she learned her daughter took, at most, one pill of MDMA, also known as ecstasy or molly, and then didn't feel well. She said people checked on Leanne until everyone went to bed.

The next morning she wasn't breathing and her friends called 911.

"I got a call from Concordia Hospital saying my daughter was in a coma and if I had a driver to take me there," she said.
Leanne was in the coma for two days before doctors told the family she was brain dead.

 

[Indy Anna]

Water toxicity/ intoxication is a very real danger. To reach toxic levels, a person has to drink an excessive quantity of fluid without eliminating any water. Cells need water to maintain functions, but an overabundance of fluid can disrupt cell functions. In 2007, a woman participating in a radio contest died of water toxicity/ intoxication:

After downing some six liters of water in three hours in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" (Nintendo game console) contest, Jennifer Strange vomited, went home with a splitting headache, and died from so-called water intoxication.

There are many other tragic examples of death by water. In 2005 a fraternity hazing at California State University, Chico, left a 21-year-old man dead after he was forced to drink excessive amounts of water between rounds of push-ups in a cold basement. Club-goers taking MDMA ("ecstasy") have died after consuming copious amounts of water trying to rehydrate following long nights of dancing and sweating. Going overboard in attempts to rehydrate is also common among endurance athletes. A 2005 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that close to one sixth of marathon runners develop some degree of hyponatremia, or dilution of the blood caused by drinking too much water.

Read more at ... https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/strange-but-true-drinking-too-much-water-can-kill/

 

[AliceInPain]

don't take drugs. less likely to die?

Fed up with this oh how did this happen to a beautiful girl, sorry,,, but it was her choice.

this coming from a sister of a severe heroin addict I had to effing save three times from his own inflicted overdoses, who overreacted in front of mine and his own kids (actually hitting us, running naked in front of us, doing all kind of weird stuff... I won't tell you the rest)

sorry, but it's gross how girls get away with this **** behavior.

Died from drinking too much water?

Sorry to kill your story guys, but she died becase she was a ****ing junkie.

 

[Indy Anna]

don't take drugs. less likely to die?

Fed up with this oh how did this happen to a beautiful girl, sorry,,, but it was her choice.

this coming from a sister of a severe heroin addict I had to effing save three times from his own inflicted overdoses, who overreacted in front of mine and his own kids (actually hitting us, running naked in front of us, doing all kind of weird stuff... I won't tell you the rest)

sorry, but it's gross how girls get away with this **** behavior.

Died from drinking too much water?

Sorry to kill your story guys, but she died becase she was a ****ing junkie.

Really, no one is excusing the girl's behavior. Just pointing out that water intoxication/toxicity is a real concern, one cause of which is drug use, and which can easily be avoided by refraining from taking drugs. The article I posted cites other situations in which water intoxication can occur and all are avoidable. I remembered the woman dying nearly ten years ago after participating in the radio contest. The radio station got into big trouble for that --- IIRC, the station employees who sponsored the contest were fired and probably faced legal sanctions. The lesson is that abuse of even the most basic element needed for survival -- water -- can have dire consequences.

 

[Cubby]

I remember the story about the woman dying from the radio contest. It was the first time I heard about dying from drinking too much water. This woman didn't die solely from drinking too much water, that was in connection to using drugs.

Did she take the drug willingly or did someone spike her drink? There is a big difference here if she willingly took street drugs. There is always a risk of hurting oneself or others when someone uses.

 

[dotr]

http://scroll.in/pulse/818802/video-drinking-too-much-water-can-be-a-bad-and-potentially-fatal-thing

When Helen Trengove, a 61-year-old resident of Gold Coast in Australia, started off on a 14-day detox and cleanse health programme in October 2014, she did not expect to land in a coma. The programme included a regimen of drinking a litre of water every two hours. On her very first day, Trengove ingested five litres after which she felt light-headed and woozy.

Speaking to journalists later, Trengove and her husband described how she began to feel cold and nauseous and went to bed. She fell unconscious, started having spasms and was rushed to a hospital. She then fell into a coma that kept her in the intensive care unit for three days.

 

[Caffeine]

I remember the Wii lady's story...quite sad. The average person is not going to be familiar with the dangers of excess water consumption. It was an incredibly stupid contest.

 

[Blondie in Spokane]

I too had never heard of the dangers of drinking massive quantities of water until the radio contestant's death was publicized. And I can see how a person under the influence of a dangerous drug like MDMA could have their judgement seriously impaired while experiencing unquenchable thirst. Scary. I'm sorry to read about Leanne's unfortunate and preventable death.

 

[dotr]

Wondering about some of the curious deaths involving young people who were found deceased in or near water.
Had some of those mysterious deaths occurred because they had ingested a drug that made them so hot and thirsty they were drawn to waterways?
imo, speculation.

 

[SweetCaroline]

I took MDMA a few times when I was young and wild. It made me thirsty, but not nearly enough so to lure me to a creek or anything. Unless you're taking really large quantities, which at $30 a pill would be quite expensive.

 

[Indy Anna]

Wondering about some of the curious deaths involving young people who were found deceased in or near water.
Had some of those mysterious deaths occurred because they had ingested a drug that made them so hot and thirsty they were drawn to waterways?
imo, speculation.

Good observation, Dotr. For anyone unfamiliar with what dotr is referencing, there is a phenomenon of young people, mostly men in their early 20's who disappear after leaving a bar or a party, who either vanish near a body of water or are later found in a body of water. There is a blog, Footprints at the River's Edge (http://footprintsattheriversedge.blogspot.com/p/about.html) which delves into such cases and the phenomenon is mentioned occasionally here on WS and many appear on WS in the following thread: http://www.websleuths.com/forums/fo...hs-of-Male-College-Students-The-River-Killers

The deaths and disappearances of young people who were last seen near or found deceased in water have been attributed to things such as a serial killer. I remember some cases in which the victim was found deceased in a body of water several blocks from where they were last seen, and in the opposite direction from where they were headed, so people have suggested that they are either kidnapped, murdered and dumped in water, or there is a mysterious force drawing them to a large body of water. Thirst can certainly be a powerful drawing force for someone who has been drinking large quantities of alcohol (has a dehydrating effect) or taking certain drugs.