re: Mom of two dies from drinking too much water after feeling dehydrated on family trip....

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“Someone said she drank four bottles of water in 20 minutes,” her brother Devon Miller told WRTV. “I mean, an average water bottle is like 16 ounces, so that was 64 ounces that she drank in a span of 20 minutes. That’s half a gallon. That’s what you’re supposed to drink in a whole day.”

On the last day of the family’s trip, the mom began feeling like she couldn’t drink enough water.

Summers complained about feeling lightheaded and having a stubborn headache, her family said.

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I think people are focusing on first paragraph above too much. Seems like she was drinking a lot of water before and not just in that 20 minutes. The extreme thirst was a symptom of problem already existing (I think an old Michael Crichton book taught me that a long time ago).

Being on lake for weekend may have pushed her being on low end with sodium already before that day, but outside of maybe having had something below I wonder if she also wasn’t eating especially on that last day.

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• Have kidney failure.
• Have congestive heart failure.
• Have diseases that affect the lungs, liver or brain.
• Have conditions related to hormone levels and the endocrine system.
• Have had surgery.
• Take certain medications like some types of diuretics or some types of antidepressants.

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