Well, that being said, do you know how much water it takes to wash away your sodium? Answer: a whole heck of a lot.
It's mighty hard to die of water toxicity, and you'd NEVER be able to hold your pee long enough to drink that much. Never ever. It's a biological impossibility. You'd need a bladder the size of a beach ball.
So, either she cheated, and peed MANY times, or she didn't drink enough water to become fatally toxic, and the diagnosis is wrong. A stomach will not hold enough water to wash all your sodium away, all at once. It would require several stomach-fulls, and your bladder would not be able to hold that much urine.
The facts as thus far presented, are impossible.
The same thing has happened to a few marathon runners.
Too much water and they die.
I look at the photo and don't think she looks "healthy".
Since she entered such a contest, clearly she wasn't mentally healthy! This contest is not sensible and was in very poor taste. I know that's par for the course in radio but come on!
Good point. If nothing else, you'd pee when you lost consciousness.
"It's mighty hard to die of water toxicity, ".........."The facts as thus far presented, are impossible."
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please......water (in and of itself) isn't "toxic", unless it is contaminated with a toxin. Some people go overboard with avoiding salt, sort of like "too much of a good thing in reverse", and a variety of medical conditions and medications can have a person on the brink of serious pathologic electrolyte disturbances. It is also very likely that she didn't eat or drink for a day or two to "prepare" herself for the contest, and was quite dehydrated at the beginning.
You like facts? Here's a few snips that explain what can (and does) happen:
The electrolyte disturbance hyponatremia or hyponatraemia exists in humans when the sodium (Natrium in Latin) level in the plasma falls below 135 mmol/l. At lower levels water intoxication may result, an urgently dangerous condition. Hyponatremia is an abnormality that can occur in isolation or, as most often is the case, as a complication of other medical illnesses.
Severe hyponatremia may cause osmotic shift of water from the plasma into the brain cells. Typical symptoms include nausea, vomiting, headache and malaise. As the hyponatremia worsens, confusion, diminished reflexes, convulsions, stupor or coma may occur.
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Thanks for your spirited opinion, but I'll stick with the rudiments and what Dr Baden said.....he is, after all, a pathologist, and a forensic one at that.