A 17-year-old high school football player has passed away after drinking too much water during practice.
Zyrees Oliver, a star student and athlete at Douglas County High School in Georgia, drank two gallons of water and two gallons of Gatorade to stave off cramps last Tuesday, his relatives said.
He felt better that evening but on Wednesday morning – just hours before he was set to start his first day of his senior year – he collapsed in his Douglasville home and was rushed to hospital.
Doctors said Zyrees was brain dead after suffering devastating brain swelling from water intoxication, family members told WSB-TV in Atlanta.
Man, we covered a similar death a while back where a young girl was FORCED to drink too much fluid and died the same way, but it appears this guy did it on his own volition. How’d he comfortably drink THAT much fluid?
Either way, it isn’t a “Gun Death” so no concern will be given by those who care about our safety.
