Marathon Runner Died From Water Intoxication
WEDNESDAY, 25 APRIL 2007
A fitness instructor died from water intoxication after completing his very first London Marathon, Monday.
Twenty-two year old David Rogers from Milton Keynes Florida died from hyponatremia where there is too much water in the body that causes to dilute vital minerals like sodium down to dangerous levels which can lead to headaches and worst fatal swelling of the brain. Rogers collapsed at the end of the race after drinking too much water. He was taken to the hospital and died Monday.
In 2003 around fourteen runners treated in Saint Thomas hospital with the same condition as Rogers but the Medical Director of the Marathon did not believe that the cause of his death was heat related. More than six hundred runners failed to complete the marathon which includes long distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie due to the unseasonable heat.
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