[rescue] Cooling (Long Message, sorry)

[Sridhar the POWERful]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2002, George Adkins wrote:

> > 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.

Unless you're on ecstasy.  If you get it in your head that you're
dehydrated and you're going to die, you probably *will* drink enough to
cause hyponaetremia.  The drug masks the effects.

Peace...  Sridhar