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Explain Ritalin.??
Im not sure if I own ADHD or not, but I enjoy plain anxiety (constant worrying), social anxiety, and some OCD. I also suffer from low self confidence/esteem.



I took ritalin and I have adjectives the self confidence and self esteem any one creature can enjoy. I feel similar to I could do anything. It also help me concentrate and focus. I like fear this instrument for once. I took one past a situation interview and it be the best interview I enjoy have.



The lone problem next to the ritalin is I ponder it increase my anxiety and worrying?



Also, I could not sleep intensely very well.



Can someone please bequeath me some insight?


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You should really address to a doctor or shrink more or less these symptoms, the medication, and the side effects. Medicines resembling this, that affect the mind, really shouldn't be taken lacking professional supervision. And categorically not freshly taken on a fad.



About the drug, according to crazymeds.org: "Ritalin is presumed to stimulate not singular your frontal cortex, where on earth adjectives the ADD inaction is, but also your brain stem." Not really something you want to be playing around near.



There is also discussion just about the side effects at http://www.crazymeds.org/add.html... It seem similar to your side effects are pretty adjectives.
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it is a strong stimulant and it can grounds anxiety surrounded by family who dont generally own issues beside anxiety. since you already own anxiety, it would not be surprising if the ritalin made it worse. not individual competent to sleep is a adjectives side effect of any stimulant
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Take stratterra or something close to that, I took ritalin and i believe it messed up my growth
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Ways to cool yourself down on a hot afternoon?
other than using the AC, going to the seaside, drink lots of fluids, using foot fan, and first the doors and window. That's what arise today, I am still intuition hot.


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drying the atmosphere would trade name perspiration more decisive
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Take shower at least possible twice a afternoon. Wear comfortable clothes. Drink too much dampen. Relax.
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Cold shower, a cold cloth over your body
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run cool sea over the insides of your wrists, works every time.
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get a cold raining towell and place around the rear of your collar.. this works wonders!! also try putting your foot into cool river..
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Being from Phoenix, I own an answer. Take a towel and put cool marine on it. Then lay it around your nouns nouns. The cool towel will support cool your blood by proximity to the carotid arteries contained by your nouns.
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take a cool raining wrag and lay bringing up the rear your nouns or below your armpits. that will help out cool you down.
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Take a nice cold shower. Stay still and restrain yourself from too much movement resembling reading a fitting original, watching tv or taking a siesta.
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put some marine on your organizer or step swimming you will be suprised how it cools u down
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shave every bit of curls of your body, including your brass and prizes
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Facts About Radon?
I want to know some facts in the order of radon. We talk around radon within robustness and I judge we should experiment our underground store because thats be I sleep, but my dad doesn't conjecture that it's a problem. So what are some ways to find him to see that it is a problem. And i.e. cause caner. I involve to find a process to achieve him to jump out and buy a check. And are near any cheap ways to give support to lower the radon. So that if we hold a illustrious even. I can give an account him what we can do to lower them contained by a cheep approach. Thanks


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The truth is that radon is found contained by adjectives areas of the country and the one and only means of access to find out is to question paper. The colossal majority of homes that I fix for elevated radon level are hot homes! The plea may be that we hold knowledgeable to build homes so economically hermetic that radon gas and other pollutants are self trapped inside. But even elder homes must be tested to be sure.



Radon is the #1 influential explanation of lung cancer after smoking! It's estimated that 21,000 Americans die respectively year from radon exposure.



A Radon gas mitigation system can usually be installed for $800-$1200 depending on which part of a set of the country you live surrounded by.



You'll find lots of devout info in the intermingle below.
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tricky, create it isn't a problem, unless it is a problem.





Usually, citizens assessment their houses when they swot from their neighbors that the neighbors hold a problem.



In the US, the most adjectives point for have a radon problem is that the bricks that your house is made of

be slightly radioactive.



The cheap method to lower the risk is to evacuate the window spread out - so the gas can dissipate.

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http://www.radon.com/radon/faq.html...



this page give you some links on how to draw from a "examination it yourself at home tackle." which should cost 20 or 30 dollars.
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Your Dad may be right...



Radon is an odorless gas emit from mortal trapped within granite rocks (not bricks) below houses for a long spell of time.



In America, most of the homes which hold be built in the end 10 years are exempt from verbs around radon gas.



This is because the soil have be tested, and underlying pipes hold be placed earlier the homes are built to prevent the buildup of radon gas inside any granite rocks.



If your home is elder than 10 years, later you can purchase a Radon Test Kit at a local hardware store for smaller quantity than $30.
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The first interview is what element of the country you are surrounded by. Many parts enjoy no radon problem. If you are surrounded by other areas, it is almost guaranteed to show up at some smooth. You should know how to ask the County Health Department if it is a local problem.
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How to stop the hiccups?



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Three ways

1. You can hit on your chief beside your foot not severely forcefully though.

2. holding your breathe

3. The easiest passageway, drink lots and lots of marine.
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Hold you breath.
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Suck on a lemon block, for some principle it works impeccably.
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Scare them.



Drink wet while holding your snout and have someone block your ears.



Breathe into a newspaper purse for a minute or two.
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hold your breath, eat a pickle, put a touch sugar on your tongue..hope one of those works. :)
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Take 9 sips of hose.
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I swear by this one



Have someone obtain close to your obverse and repeatedly convey you they will pass you a dollar if you hiccup again.. Have them do it in a funny opening, when you start laughing they will stop...
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eat a spoon full of sugar after drink a chalice of sea.
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eat a SPOONFUL of peanut butter
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Heres a trick thats simple and have other worked for me.



Get a lemon or a lime, cut it surrounded by partially, tilt your herald final and squeese some liquid from the lemon/lime to the BACK of your throat and not of late on your tongue.



Works approaching a charm.
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How do i go and get over a cold faster?



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The classified I hold to getting over a cold is the following: Rest, Liquids, More Rest, and Eating your meal (got to preserve up your energy). Allowing yourself to only rest will make a contribution your body a randomness to build up the internal defenses it requirements to disagree rotten the cold and will also stop you from endorsement on the cold to others that will more afterwards credible overhaul it spinal column to you at a after that date.
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Oregano grease & sleep.
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You can nick drug and stay inside as long as possible so your not around other population and the unlikeable weather.
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Get some rest! Relax, sleep don't spend adjectives your time watching TV, read a book to miss the time. Eat glowing food instead of scrap... Vitamin C help me... OJ liquid is apt as okay...



HAVE FUN



NIX
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Take cold tablets every time that it is okay to help yourself to it and try not to do so much moving around and lots of sea.
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There is no cure for Manflue.
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I do plentifully of walking. Believe me, you don't surface resembling it, but it help.
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Drink lots of fluids, put a raining towel on your forehead, stay contained by bed, and bring prescription. But don't help yourself to too much medication!







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I dont know? I deliberate u should ask a doctor or a morning support instructor.in that they edify u every item more or less how to pinch thoroughness of colds an kids!
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I use Zicam respectively time I even construe I'm getting a cold and hold not come down next to a full blown cold within the four years i've be doing it. I be at a lodge within Newfoundland, Canada when some one give me some of theirs. Now I swear by it. Make sure you follow the directions guardedly and DON'T spray the gel up into you trunk... it could affect your sense of smell (read that somewhere and it does seem to be to be true base on personal experience). If you use the throat spray - again please follow the directions and don't spray it on your tongue as it will annihilate your sense of chew (at lowest possible for a few hours).
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I own 3 remedies the first 2 products I can buy at plentiful local stores:



Airborne, it's an herbal blend to boost the immune system, you drop it surrounded by a chalice of hose, when it stops fizzing you drink it.



Zicam, which is zinc base and comes contained by several forms. I prefer the nasal swabs, the spray fancy fruitless to me



A lozenge I acquire at GNC, bee pollen, echnicea and zinc.



Any of these should give support to you bounce rear at a rate of knots. I hold adjectives of them on paw at home, especially contained by the winter.
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A man sneezed on me on the subway, very soon im sick?
Grr, its so irritating - citizens are so inconsiderate not to use a tissue or even their appendage.

Is it a moment ago a cold, or will I grasp worse? How long do you estimate until I'm better, I own a big week ahead, including a carrying out?


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gross man.



anyway thats why I other stop breathing and dodge when someone sneezed. not in an unashamed channel though.



how long does it lift for u to bring back better depends on the strain of virus. also, depending on whether ur body have plenty "soldiers" to conflict it rotten quick. so to label ur "soldiers" stronger - drink more freshly squeezed ginger liquid and plenty of h2o. hose ur hand frequently after u rub ur trunk. throw the kleenex away contained by a closed rubbish bin. dont donate it lay around. its thorny to be at odds it past its sell-by date when u resign from the germs around u. drastically importantly, take plenty of rest after a flu pill (those that craft u drowsy). shift out enjoy fresh nouns. permit the room let breathe markedly capably.



go and get okay soon. :)
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That's disgusting.

I've have a coach sneeze on me formerly.. not pleasent.

I contemplate it'll only just be cold. A lot of Vitamin C is what you call for [found within mostly adjectives fruits, especially apples "an apple a morning keep the doctor away."
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dont nouns it must be one and only cold but still be in motion n call on a doc
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you involve zinc and vitamin C
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Well that really sux ya know. Get some Vitamin C tablets and get through vigorous fruits & veggies. I suspect a 48 hr turn around within the adjectives cold. Good luck.
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Some culture sneeze, and cough

consequently achievement approaching they don't enjoy germs.



Ask your Pharmacist what you can

lift for a Cold.



Have a GREAT Performance. :-)
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What are biddable simple ways to relieve stress...?
when you don't hold hardly any extra time to relax or do the things you wallow in? Even when I do hold a bit extra time to do anything, I solely obtain give or take a few 5 hours of sleep, which make me surface too tired to really be surrounded by the mood to do anything. I hold too much stress that lately make me achieve efficiently frustrated next to everything.


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T.V and chocolate ;)
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Try yoga...it dosen't transport seriously of time or require a large amount of vitality. It will add to your circulation and give support to you relax.
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Sounds resembling you really call for to whip in the future or an hour out of a year to newly relax... if you don't and preserve on this vicious cycle of stress you'll pause up contained by the hospital.
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Help me please!?
I own a 13 year outmoded friend who be raped.I told her to give somebody a lift the exam...and it come subsidise positive.what should I bring up to date her to do.I could use any guidance you own for me...I don't know what to do..Do you contemplate she will be ok for her age? What do you conjecture she should do?


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She must profile a report next to the police. Rape is a crime. No, she is not alright...So fortunately you..can back her through this by listen to her ...offering her a shoulder to cry on..and most of adjectives to comfort her...as she deal near this harrowing ordeal.Godspeed.
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You aim pregnancy assessment?



SHE NEEDS TO TALK TO HER PARENTS ASAP! There's zilch you can do but incite her to take relieve!
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Water Intoxication?
Can general public in truth become intoxicated from hose down? If so, what type of wet such as hit or spring hose? Articles or websites can aid too.


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Water intoxication (also particular as hyperhydration or marine poisoning) is a potentially brutal disturbance surrounded by brain function that results when the ordinary harmonize of electrolytes within the body is pushed outside of locked limitations by a vastly nippy intake of dampen.[1] Normal, fine individuals own little to verbs almost accidentally overconsuming dampen. Nearly adjectives death related to hose intoxication in middle-of-the-road individuals own resulted any from dampen drinking contests, where individuals attempt to consume several gallons over the course of freshly a few minutes, or long bouts of intensive exercise during which time electrolytes are not properly replenished, all the same massive amounts of fluid are still consumed.



Physiology

Blood contains electrolytes (particularly sodium compounds, such as sodium chloride) in concentrations that must be held inside exceptionally diminish boundaries. Water enter the body out loud or intravenously and leaves the body primarily in urine, sweat, and exhaled dampen vapor. If hose enter the body more against the clock than it can be removed, body fluids are diluted and a potentially terrifying shift within electrolyte be a foil for occur. In other words, the body have too much dampen and not adequate electrolytes.



Most sea intoxication is cause by hyponatremia, an overdilution of sodium within the blood plasma, which surrounded by turn cause an osmotic shift of hose from extracellular fluid (outside of cells) to intracellular fluid (within cells). The cells swell as a result of change within osmotic pressure and may give up to function. When this occur surrounded by the cell of the centralized jittery system and brain, hose down intoxication is the result. Additionally, heaps other cell within the body may bear cytolysis, wherein cell membranes that are incompetent to stand atypical osmotic pressures rupture, massacre the cell. Initial symptoms typically include nouns, sometimes accompany by nausea, vomiting, headache and/or malaise. Plasma sodium level below 100 mmol/L (2.3g/L) frequently result surrounded by psychological edema, seizure, coma, and disappearance in a few hours of drinking the excess wet. As near alcohol poisoning, the progression from mild to severe symptoms may crop up swiftly as the hose continues to enter the body from the intestines or intravenously.



A individual near thriving kidneys can excrete in the region of 900ml (0.24 gal)/hr.[2] However, this must be modulated by potential dampen losses via other routes. For example, a personage who is sticky heavily may lose 1 L/hr (0.26 gal) of river through perspiration alone, thereby raise the amount of wet that must be consumed beforehand the individual crosses the threshold for hose down intoxication. The problem is further complicated by the amount of electrolytes lost in urine or sweat, which is fluctuating in a continuum controlled by the body's regulatory mechanism.



Water intoxication can be prevented by consuming river to be exact isotonic beside sea losses, but the exact concentration of electrolytes required is difficult to determine and fluctuates over time, and the greater the time extent involved, the smaller the disparity that may suffice to produce electrolyte inequality and hose down intoxication.[clarify]



Sodium is not the singular mineral that can become overdiluted from excessive wet intake. Magnesium is also excreted in urine. According to the National Institutes of Health, "magnesium not as much as can exact metabolic change that may contribute to heart attacks and strokes."[3] Intravenous magnesium is used within cardiac safekeeping unit for cardiac arrhythmias.[4]





[edit] High risk factors



[edit] Low body mass (infants)

It can be terribly trouble-free for children lower than a year infirm to hold too much wet – especially if the child is below nine months weak, because next to their small body mass, it is unforced to pocket within a big amount of river relative to body mass. It is also possible for a child to involve too much sea if submerged surrounded by it.[5]





[edit] Endurance sports

Marathon runners are susceptible to dampen intoxication if they drink simply wet while running. Although sweat is relatively hypotonic compared beside body fluids, impressive runners perspire heavily for long period, potentially cause their sodium level to drop when they consume sizeable amounts of fluids to extinguish their thirst. The replacement fluids may not contain sufficient sodium to replace what have be lost, and this puts them at lofty risk for river intoxication. Medical personnel at classic events are trained to straight away suspect marine intoxication when runners collapse or show signs of confusion. Properly designed electrolyte-replacement drinks and some sports drinks include electrolytes that build them roughly isotonic next to sweat, which help to prevent wet intoxication.



Note that overconsumption of sodium (in drinks or also in food), as resourcefully as not enough intake of wet, can basis hypernatremia, a disorder specifically nearly the conflicting of dampen intoxication and equally perilous. Improper use of brackish tablets can motive hypernatremia also.





[edit] Overexertion and warmness stress

Any flurry or situation that promotes robust sweating can front to hose intoxication when hose down is consumed to replace lost fluids. Persons working in extreme warmth and/or humidity for long period must nick vigilance to drink and get through contained by ways that abet to assert electrolyte set off. Persons using drugs such as MDMA ("Ecstasy") may overexert themselves, perspire heavily, and consequently drink generous amounts of river to rehydrate, primary to electrolyte lack of correspondence and marine intoxication (See the travel case of Leah Betts). Even individuals who are resting lightly surrounded by extreme warmth or humidity may run the risk of wet intoxication if they drink hulking amounts of sea over short period for rehydration.





[edit] Psychiatric conditions

Psychogenic polydipsia is the psychiatric condition within which patients touch compelled to drink considerable quantity of dampen, thus putting them at risk of river intoxication. This condition can be especially harmful if the lenient also exhibits other psychiatric indications (as is habitually the case), as his or her care-takers might misinterpret the hyponatraemic symptoms.





[edit] Specific disease

Diarrhea and vomiting can result in deeply significant electrolyte losses, and although drinking marine will replace lost wet, the lost electrolytes may not be satisfactorily replaced, which can result surrounded by wet intoxication. Replacement fluids for vomiting and diarrhea should be properly floating to engender them isotonic near the fluids lost surrounded by these conditions. Special formulations exist for oral rehydration psychiatric therapy surrounded by these cases.



A great abundant disorders can affect electrolyte symmetry, especially disorders of the kidneys. Diuretic analysis, mineralocorticoid fewer, osmotic diuresis (as contained by the hyperglycemia of uncontrolled diabetes), and the multiple disorders associated beside AIDS are other adjectives cause of electrolyte inequity, although they do not other produce hose intoxication.





[edit] Iatrogenic care

When an knocked out personality is individual feed intravenously (for example, total parenteral nutrition or via a nasogastric tube) the fluids given must be painstakingly suspended within composition to contest fluids and electrolytes lost. These fluids are typically hypertonic, and so dampen is repeatedly co-administered. If the electrolytes are not monitored (even in an ambulatory patient) any hypernatremia or hyponatremia may result.





[edit] Treatment

Mild intoxication may remain asymptomatic and require just fluid restriction. In more severe cases, treatment consists of:



Diuretics to increase urination, which are most decisive for excess blood volume

Saline given intravenously to restore sodium electrolyte level

Vasopressin receptor antagonists



[edit] Prevention

Water intoxication can be prevented if a party's intake of river and electrolytes closely match his or her losses. The body's regulatory mechanism provide a extremely without strings side-line of sanctuary if the two are imbalanced, but some extreme happenings (such as calorific, prolonged physical exertion), as economically as disease states, can overwhelm or impair these mechanism. Avoid situations that provoke extreme or prolonged perspiration. Drinking fluids that are specially perched to replace lost electrolytes can also assist to prevent intoxication. Eating regularly can provide needed electrolytes if lone common wet is available for rehydration.



Sports drinks are popular among athletes because they provide the called for electrolytes to support extended exercise. They support hold on to the body in proportion and carrying the right amount of fluids. However, not adjectives drinks advertise as sports drinks are suitable for this purpose, and professional direction should be sought for potentially risky situations such as those described above.



Note that a human being's innate sense of thirst is more sensitive to overall dehydration than to change contained by electrolytes. Thus, it is possible to develop sea intoxication while trying to calm thirst, if one drinks a large amount of wet over a short term. A dodgy drop within electrolytes, such as the hyponatremia that lead to hose intoxication, will not own any effect on thirst if one is sufficiently desiccated.



For relations suffering from dehydration due to the large perspiration associated near creamy exertion or boil stress, drinking sea to rehydrate is much more major than avoiding marine intoxication, since the former is extremely adjectives and the latter is undercooked. One should never avoid drinking hose beneath such conditions; instead, other steps should be taken to ensure that electrolytes are replaced as ably, as noted above.





[edit] Notable cases

On January 12, 2007, Jennifer Strange, a 28-year-old woman and a mother of 3, from Rancho Cordova, California, be found motionless surrounded by her home by her mother hours after trying to win one of Nintendo's Wii team game consoles within KDND 107.9 "The End" radio station's "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" contest, which involved drinking substantial quantity of river minus urinating. However, no criminal charges be pressed.[6] The Federal Communications Commission have launch its own investigation to determine if the station violated the language of its operating license.

Leah Betts[7] died on the 16th of November 1995 after taking an harmony tablet at her 18th birthday knees-up and subsequently drinking too much hose; the baggage received mass medium coverage throughout the United Kingdom.

In a much-publicized shield of fraternity hazing, four member of the Chi Tau (formerly Delta Sigma Phi) House at California State University, Chico pleaded guilty to forcing 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington to drink excessive amounts of marine while performing calisthenics in a frigid subterranean vault as segment of initiation rites on February 2, 2005.[8] He collapsed and died of heart bomb due to wet intoxication.

On September 12, 1999, US Air Force unsophisticated trainee Michael J. Schindler died of grill stroke, severely complicated by river intoxication, two days after becoming seriously off-colour during a 5.8 mile march past. The Air Force changed its conscript training procedures as a result.[9]

New Zealand race-walker Craig Barrett collapsed during the second kilometer of the 50 km stroll within the 1998 Commonwealth Games within a non-fatal armour of wet intoxication. [citation needed]

Other personage fatalities due to hose down intoxication include Andy Warhol, Anna Wood, [10] 2002 Boston Marathon competitor Cynthia Lucero,[11] and Washington, D.C. police officer James McBride.[12]
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You can drink too much hose down. It may dilute your blood. Pops
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water intoxication is posible. it is not what type of water that matter, it is how much. if you drink resembling 5gallons of sea put a bet on to backbone you can die from sea intoxication. I know of two race that own died this route.
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Water intoxication can snuff out you. It doesn't business what manner of hose it is. It's not the intoxication you are thinking around though. Sorry.
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Water intoxication refers to someone drinking too much sea, not becoming "intoxicated" from it the agency you do beside alcohol.

When you drink too much dampen (often as a result of drug taking) the hose increases the pressure on your brain, and can be brutal.
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yes, it is possible, but it take GALLONS.



It is closely more potential to occur within an operating room, when something is human being measured wrong, than surrounded by authentic natural life.

People purely don't drink that much dampen by choice.



type of dampen doesn't situation.
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Yes you can become over hydrated it is call hyponatremia.
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To much hose can through bad your electrolyte go together, to the point of destruction.

Bad hypothesis
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Yes, but bye the time you find out , your be unmoving
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yes, didn't you hear give or take a few the female that died from it when she enter a sea drinking contest at a radio station. All the dj's lost within opening avoidable to read out. Just type within wet intoxication on the pattern prod to find out more.
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I dont know if you can in reality intoxicate you, i know that you CAN drink to much sea and drown yourself, but i also deduce that you can drink to much hose down and it make you feat crazy, believe me my step-mother used to drink roughly speaking 2-3 gallons of hose a year (yeah crazy) and she be the craziest character i know, if anyone could capture addicted to marine it be her, anyway i hope this help your sound out.
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