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  2. Salt poisoning - Wikipedia

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    Sea salt is one of the most common causes of sodium poisoning. Salt poisoning is an intoxication resulting from the excessive intake of sodium (usually as sodium chloride) in either solid form or in solution (saline water, including brine, brackish water, or seawater). Salt poisoning sufficient to produce severe symptoms is rare, and lethal ...

  3. R v Dudley and Stephens - Wikipedia

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    R v Dudley and Stephens. R v Dudley and Stephens (1884) 14 QBD 273, DC is a leading English criminal case which established a precedent throughout the common law world that necessity is not a defence to a charge of murder. The case concerned survival cannibalism following a shipwreck, and its purported justification on the basis of a custom of ...

  4. Water intoxication - Wikipedia

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    Water intoxication, also known as water poisoning, hyperhydration, overhydration, or water toxemia, is a potentially fatal disturbance in brain functions that can result when the normal balance of electrolytes in the body is pushed outside safe limits by excessive water intake. Under normal circumstances, accidentally consuming too much water ...

  5. Why drinking water when you're not thirsty can kill you - AOL

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    Over drinking water can actually kill you. Doctors used to recommend that patients drink at least 8 cups a day...but not anymore. Over drinking water can actually kill you.

  6. Drinking too much water, also known as water intoxication ...

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    The story was later edited to say this: "Marvel also introduced Pratt to nutritionist Philip Goglia, who increased Pratt’s caloric intake to 4,000 a day, plus one ounce of water for each pound ...

  7. You Are Probably Drinking Too Much Water, Say Experts - AOL

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    You’ve probably heard that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Hew-Butler said this is based on the fact that water turnover in the body is about two liters or eight glasses per day.

  8. Cold shock response - Wikipedia

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    Cold shock response is a series of neurogenic cardio-respiratory responses caused by sudden immersion in cold water. In cold water immersions, such as by falling through thin ice, cold shock response is perhaps the most common cause of death. [1] Also, the abrupt contact with very cold water may cause involuntary inhalation, which, if ...

  9. Seawater - Wikipedia

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    Seawater, or sea water, is water from a sea or ocean. On average, seawater in the world's oceans has a salinity of about 3.5% (35 g/L, 35 ppt, 600 mM). This means that every kilogram (roughly one liter by volume) of seawater has approximately 35 grams (1.2 oz) of dissolved salts (predominantly sodium ( Na +