Name: A Mom Drank 3 Gallons Water In 2 Hours. This is What Happened to Her Brain.
Uploaded: 2018-01-06T16:05:35.000Z
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A Mom drank three gallons of water in two hours. This is what happened to her brain

presenting to the emergency room unconscious

her husband Josh tells the admitting nurse at admission that she had suffered at least two seizures in the past 30 minutes

You see Casey had been participating in a radio show

Where contestants would drink up to three gallons of water in two hours

and the last person to urinate or vomit would be the winner of a Shiny Nintendo Wii

Clearly this was for gags on behalf of the radio station and at the expense of it's contestants, but Casey was determined

She was going to win that nintendo and be able to play it with her kids

Immediately after finishing all three gallons of distilled water

casey complained of severe nausea and in order to hold back the urge to vomit

She was found to clench the armrest of her chair

Casey was easily crowned victorious in the challenge and her husband began to drive her home about an hour after

Finishing all that water and in the car she begins to cry

she's suffering a massive headache and tells her husband

She feels pressure push against her eyes and reports the division in her left eye

So they can get home and she can take a nap because they both believe she can sleep it off

Interestingly enough after drinking all that water she has no urge to urinate or vomit,at home now

Casey goes to her bed to lay down while her husband begins to prepare dinner

Dinner's ready, it's only been 30 minutes and the husband watches some TV and lets his wife sleep

It's here in bed that Kaifi Silently suffers her first seizure

Unknowingly Josh Watches TV for another hour trying to be considerate to his wife who he believes is sleeping

But is actually unconscious and suffering seizures every 20 minutes as he finally feels

It's time to call her for dinner an hour later

He goes to her room to see her and finally sees her suffer yet, one more seizure

Kc's sixth seizure is seen by the paramedics as she arrives to the emergency room where we are now

given the patient's immediate past medical history

There's several clues as to what's happening any doctor will be able to easily identify that KC is suffering from

natr meaning pertaining to sodium or more formally natrium as is shown by its symbol on the periodic table of elements

acute meaning that there are no underlying pathophysiologic conditions

that are leading to this problem aside from the three gallons of water that are inside her body

At the Moment which leads to the first clue

Josh tells the admitting nurse that KC had not vomited or urinated

since the contest ended which means that there hasn't been a net flow out of her body

the three gallons of water are hanging around

somewhere inside of her that water is important to note because

KC is a woman the female body is on average made of about 50 percent water compared to male bodies

which are typically 60% water given that Kasey is 28 years old

she's premenopausal, meaning that she has more estrogen in her body than a 60 year old post menopausal woman

Estrogen is a sex hormone that increases the proliferation of fat tissue

fat, which is made up of oils doesn't mix well with water so as women's bodies are made of more fat

they hold on the less water compared to man

who produce more sex hormone called testosterone

which increases the production of muscle tissue a tissue that does hold on to water

So if the female body is typically made of less water and contains more fat which doesn't mix with water at all

then, where are those 3 gallons of water inside KC's body

well, there's a bit of basic chemistry to be known here the fluid in your body is a soup

of several chemicals in this case the most important being sodium which is one half of this table salt

The interesting thing about sodium is that it creates something called an osmotic gradient which means that wherever sodium is

Water will flow towards it in this small science experiment

I dissolve salt in this water and place it into a tube

I submerge the tube in a pool of water that has no salt dissolved in it

You'll see that water flows into the tube

so let's go back to the name of KC's condition

Hyponatremia low sodium presence in blood

Since she drank all three gallons of water. How is it possible that there's low sodium?

Nothing has left her body. So there shouldn't be less sodium present, right?

yes, but the water in your body is made of

0.9% sodium so for every one liter of water there are 9 grams of sodium

most of the water in your body is inside your cells

in medical world we call this normal saline or isotonic

KC drink distilled water which has no salt

if water flows to where there's salt and your body water which is mostly inside yourself has salt

then KC's cells must have lots of water flowing into them

This would mean that her organs like her liver

and her stomach are starting to swell with water

that should be ok though, because your abdomen is soft

but the water wouldn't just be flowing to those two it would be flowing into her heart, her muscles

but those aren't enclosed in a hard space either, so it wouldn't be too much of a problem if they swelled up inside

It's enclosed inside a hard space your cranium also known as your skull

8% in volume until it starts to push up against the bones in your skull as the water keeps flowing

Into the sodium-Rich cells of KC's body her brain is starting to crush up against the size of her skull

Smashing blood vessels as it expands preventing blood flow in causing

As the flow of blood is disrupted to KC's brain parts of it start to necrosis or quite literally die

This damaged upon brain expansion is known as herniation and means permanent brain damage

in KC's case. The disruption of hydrodynamic flow is a recurring physiologic theme when it comes to causes of Sudden death

a cocaine overdose can overstimulate the heart causing something called atrial fibrillation

This is a time when one part of your heart will beat at over 300 beats per minute not actually

Contracting or ejecting blood it causes blood to pool forming a clot which can lodge directly into your brain causing a stroke

blocking oxygen flow to your brain and killing the tissue in the case of a heart attack the blood vessels providing your heart with

Oxygen are blocked by a plaque meaning your heart muscle

No longer gets any oxygen,  the muscle begins to die quickly and the rest of your body no longer

receives any blood in the case of alcoholism when the liver is cirrhosis or

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