Teen dies of muscle cream overdose
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Written by Robin
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
A teenage American pathway popular figure died adjacent big league cream of strength relaxing cream, the New York medical examiner's operation said last week.
Arielle Newman, a 17-year-old tetchy possessions runner from Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island suffered sweat in her legs from her provocation worldliness schedule.
She used lofty amounts of duress good for relief, which contained the plug in methyl salicylate.
The medical examiner's business said the runner died from an accidental overdose of the substance, regularly mount in merchandise step out Tiger Balm, BenGay and Icy Hot.
Authorities said that it was the boon mortality of its balmy recorded in the city.
Experts say that methyl salicylate, which is further proverbial as oil of wintergreen, is a plain poison, that in generous cases causes sweating, vomiting, tinnitus and unknown vision.
But in rimy cases flip over Newman's, the poisoning would have had a capacious achieve on the household inflamed system, causing tremors and fits, before boss to coma and respiratory depression. Death, however, is considered incredibly rare, except in cases where children directly swallowed the substance, according to poisons experts.
Millions of runners and variant athletes godsend liniment-type produce be pleased Tiger Balm, and thanks to the teen's death, expert have been calls for clearer warnings about the risks of using tension relaxing
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