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FDA warns not to drink Real Water-brand alkaline water after 5 kids hospitalized with liver illness
ktla ^

Posted on 03/18/2021 1:12:06 PM PDT by BenLurkin

Company President Brent Jones on Wednesday called for stores to stop selling the product “throughout the United States until the issue is resolved.”

“Our goal is to diligently work with the FDA to achieve a swift resolution,” a statement from Jones said.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned consumers, restaurants and retailers not to drink, cook with, sell or serve the product, the Southern Nevada Health District said in a statement posted Tuesday.

Real Water is marketed in boxy blue plastic bottles as mineral-rich and “alkalized” and “infused with negative ions.”

Acute non-viral hepatitis is a liver inflammation that can be caused by exposure to toxins, autoimmune disease or drinking too much alcohol, the district said. Symptoms can include fever, fatigue, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, dark urine, light-colored stools, joint pain and yellow skin or eyes.

The district advised people experiencing symptoms to contact their health care provider.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: alkaline; fda; liver; realwater
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Complete digression: Is anyone else tired of hearing children being routinely referred to as "kids"?
1 posted on 03/18/2021 1:12:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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OK I’ll have to do some research on this, kid.

I’ve heard of this alkalized water before. In fact there was a store next to one of my favorite Chinese restaurants that sold all kinds of products that were supposed to “raise your body pH level” under the theory that a higher pH would kill off cancer cells or something like that.

I don’t know if it is true or not, but I suspect that drinking alkalized water isn’t going to do much of anything at all except maybe make you sick in the stomach... or liver.


2 posted on 03/18/2021 1:16:53 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

The body has mechanisms that attempt a blood pH of 7.45-7.55.
It’s marketing BS.


3 posted on 03/18/2021 1:25:01 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

Oops, 7.35 - 7.45.


4 posted on 03/18/2021 1:26:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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Is anyone else tired of hearing children being routinely referred to as "kids"?

Nope. I've done it all my life, and so do my kids.

5 posted on 03/18/2021 1:27:50 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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Is anyone else tired of hearing children being routinely referred to as "kids"?

Yes, kids are baby goats, and children are less-than adult humans.

I think we are just showing our age.

6 posted on 03/18/2021 1:32:50 PM PDT by LSAggie
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To: Yo-Yo

Why not just drink ammonia?


7 posted on 03/18/2021 1:33:39 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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I was commenting on referring to children as "kids." Not drinking alkaline water.

It's straight tap water for me, fluoride and all. Yummy!

8 posted on 03/18/2021 1:37:33 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: BenLurkin

Seems normal to me.


9 posted on 03/18/2021 1:40:22 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: BenLurkin

Is this like the idiots who made themselves sick by consuming huge amounts of anti-oxidants? They thought that would help them live forever.


10 posted on 03/18/2021 1:47:13 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL)
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To: BenLurkin

Oh dear, I’ve got several bottles of that water. I’ve never had a problem with it. Now I have to decide if I want to toss them out or finish them.


11 posted on 03/18/2021 1:49:31 PM PDT by KittyKares (I miss President Trump!)
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Is anyone else tired of hearing children being routinely referred to as "kids"?

Yes, kids are baby goats, and children are less-than adult humans.

I think we are just showing our age.

Even when I was one, I thought the term was dismissive and, depending on who was using it, maybe even a little derogatory ("They're just kids.")

That said, I could be showing my age too!

12 posted on 03/18/2021 1:51:17 PM PDT by free-in-nyc
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To: BenLurkin

Oh please, there’s nothing wrong with REAL water...I drink half a gallon every day (sometimes more) and have all my life.


13 posted on 03/18/2021 1:51:52 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: BenLurkin
Always with the negative ions..


14 posted on 03/18/2021 1:51:58 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: BenLurkin

Lots of folks, I am sure.


15 posted on 03/18/2021 1:53:04 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Yo-Yo

“Nope. I’ve done it all my life, and so do my kids.”

Same here - they’re my KIDS, and then only when I’m in a good mood.


16 posted on 03/18/2021 1:55:38 PM PDT by BobL (TheDonald.win is now Patriots.win)
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To: Yo-Yo

So much for your purity of essence.


17 posted on 03/18/2021 2:01:32 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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18 posted on 03/18/2021 2:05:29 PM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Seruzawa

I saw a guy with blue tinted skin a few weeks ago. I assumed he took too much colloidal silver to prevent covid. It looked very odd.


19 posted on 03/18/2021 2:06:42 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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20 posted on 03/18/2021 2:27:48 PM PDT by Boogieman
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