NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jul 02 – A review of three deaths of US military recruits highlights the dangers of excessive fluid intake.
The military has traditionally focused on the dangers associated with heat illness, which has killed a number of healthy, young enrollees, study author Dr. John W. Gardner, from the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Rockville, Maryland, told Reuters Health.
“The risk has always been not drinking enough,” Dr. Gardner said. “And then people who aren’t medically attuned get overzealous,” inducing recruits to drink amounts of water that endanger their health, he added.
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