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US woman dies after water contest

The contestants started on small bottles and worked up
A Californian woman who took part in a water-drinking contest to win a video game system has died of water intoxication, tests have shown.
Jennifer Strange had taken part in the "Hold Your Wee for a Wii" game run by KDND 107.9 radio in Sacramento, which promised the winner a Nintendo Wii.

A work colleague said Ms Strange had reported her head was hurting hours after the contest and was going home.

Ms Strange, 28, was found dead on Friday at her house in Rancho Cordova.

Local assistant coroner Ed Smith said initial tests showed death was "consistent with water intoxication".

Contestants were first given eight ounce (225 millilitre) bottles to drink every 15 minutes.

Contestant James Ybarra told Associated Press news agency: "They told us if you don't feel like you can do this, don't put your health at risk."

Mr Ybarra said he quit after five bottles but remaining contestants started on larger bottles.

"She was telling me about her family and her three kids and how she was doing it for her kids," Mr Ybarra said.

One of Ms Strange's work colleagues, Laura Rios, said: "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad.

"She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."

The station said its staff were stunned at the death.

I remeber a couple of years ago, Anthony Andrews (who was playing Professor Higgins in My Fair Lady in the West End) was rushed to hospital because he'd drunk too much water and had collapsed-I've found a link. It's interesting as we all think it's good to drink a lot of water, but don't realise that you can dilute the sodium in your body.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jh ... andr05.xml

If I remember the fact correct - it's from 6 to 7 % from your body weight when you're having a water toxication after drinking water. And I've heard couple of times that because of that reason few anorectic models has been taken into a hospital...