British man nearly OD's on...

[Puke]

...water!! OMG! Where is the gov't to protect us from this evil dangerous substance!!!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2016596/Water-overdose-leaves-man-close-to-death.html

Water overdose leaves man close to death
24/05/2008

A fit and healthy 23-year-old man nearly died after overdosing on ordinary drinking water after a gym session.

Richard Dyer, 23, was admitted to hospital with severe water intoxication after downing five litres during a gruelling two-hour weights session.

Doctors called it a "near lethal dose" and said he was lucky to be alive after the extremely rare condition led to widespread muscle seizures and kidney failure.

The illness is usually linked to marathon runners who drink too much after a race. It causes dangerously low salt levels in the blood and can lead to fatal brain swelling, organ failure, coma and cardiac arrest.

Mr Dyer, from Plymstock in Devon, is recovering at home with his wife Jade, 24, after his emergency admission to Derriford Hospital on May 9 – three days after the bizarre poisoning.

Blood tests in hospital revealed signs of acute kidney failure. Mr Dyer was given morphine and placed on a saline drip to balance heavily depleted sodium levels in his body.

"I was told if I'd left it a day later I could have died," said Mr Dyer, who owns a contract cleaning business.

"Doctors said a lot of people wouldn't have stood a chance, but it went in my favour that I'm young and don't smoke or do drugs. You think drinking lots of water is healthy, but you don't realise the limits.

"It's vital that people know about this. It's so easily done."

[K. Darien Freeheart]

That's one of those poor guy stories...

After a Sacramento Radio Station had a "Hold your pee for a Wii" contest a woman actually died from water intoxication and there WAS talk about passing a law to deal with it. :S

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/13/woman-dies-of-water-intoxication-after-radio-contest/

[J’raxis 270145]

DHMO strikes again...

[David]

DHMO strikes again...

Yes, it really is dangerous stuff.  But rest assured, there is a friendly gov't beauracrat near you with the 'solution' to what ails you. 

[doobie]

Man, that di-hydrogen monoxide is evil stuff!  We sure need to bad it

[Kat Kanning]

Bad water...bad water!

[41mag]

ICI has announced the discovery of a new firefighting agent to add to their existing range. Known as WATER ( Wonderful And Total Extinguishing Resource ), it augments, rather than replaces, existing agents, such as dry powder and BCF (bromine-chlorine-fluorine), which have been in use from time immemorial. It is particularly suitable for dealing with fires in buildings, timber yards, and warehouses.

Though required in large quantities, it is fairly cheap to produce and it is that quantities of about a million gallons should be stored in urban areas and near other installations of high risk ready for immediate use. BCF and dry powder are usually stored under pressure, but WATER will be stored in open ponds or reservoirs and conveyed to the scene of the fire by hoses and portable pumps.


ICI's new proposals are already encountering strong opposition from safety and environmental groups. Professor Connie Barrinner has pointed out that if anyone immersed his head in a bucket of WATER, it would prove fatal in as little as three minutes. Each of ICI's proposed reservoirs will contain enough WATER to fill 500,000 two-gallon buckets. Each bucketful could be used 100 times, so there is enough WATER in one reservoir to kill the entire population of the U.K. Risks of this size, said Professor Barrinner, should not be allowed, whatever the gain. If that WATER were to get out of control, the results of Flixborough or Seveso would pale into insignificance by comparison. What use was a firefighting agent that could kill men as well as fire?

A local authority spokesman said that he would strongly oppose planning permission for construction of a WATER reservoir in this area, unless the most stringent precautions were followed. Open ponds were certainly not acceptable. What would prevent people from falling in them? What would prevent the contents from leaking out? At the very least, the WATER would need to be contained in a steel pressure vesssel surrounded by a leak proof concrete wall.

A spokesman from the fire brigades said he did not see the need for the new agent. Dry powder and BFC could cope with most fires. The new agent would bring with it risks, particularly to firemen, greater than any possible gain. Did we know what would happen to this new medium when it was exposed to intense heat? It had been reported that WATER was a constituent of beer. Did this mean that firemen would be intoxicated by the fumes?
The friends of the World said that they had obtained a sample of WATER and found it caused clothes to shrink. If it did this to cotton , what would it do to men?


In the House of Commons yesterday, the Home Secretary was asked if he would prohibit the manufacture and storage of this lethal new material. The Home Secretary replied that, as it was clearly a major hazard, local authorities would have to take advice from the Health and Safety Executive before giving planning permission. A full investigation was needed and the Major Hazards Group would be asked to report.

[Search4Lancer]

Man, that di-hydrogen monoxide is evil stuff!  We sure need to bad it

When you word it like that, it probably wouldn't be too tough to convince some moron lawmaker to write a bill.

[Pat McCotter]

Penn & Teller pass petition to ban DHMO.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw