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Hyponatremia or low sodium syndrome: Did you know drinking too much water can kill as electrolytes level dips?

Hyponatremia or low sodium syndrome: Did you know drinking too much water can kill as electrolytes level dips?

You may have heard of the water-drinking contest held by a radio station in the US in 2007 that caused the death of a woman named Jennifer Strange. The radio station was fined $16.5 million in the compensation payable to the dead woman’s husband following the wrongful death lawsuit. Strange suffered hyponatremia, or acute water intoxication. Immediate medical care might have saved with an IV sodium drip to counteract the water, the doctor testified. She had been drinking water for nearly three hours without urinating during the January 12, 2007 contest. She died of water poisoning.