OH COME ON!!!! GIVE ME A FUCKING BREAK!!!!!!

Medical examiner: Sports cream caused teen's death

NEW YORK (AP) -- A medical examiner blamed a 17-year-old track star's death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.

Arielle Newman, a cross-country runner at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island, died after her body absorbed high levels of methyl salicylate, an anti-inflammatory found in sports creams such as Bengay and Icy Hot, the New York City medical examiner said Friday.
The medical examiner's spokeswoman, Ellen Borakove, said the teen used "topical medication to excess." She said it was the first time that her office had reported a death from using a sports cream.

Newman, who garnered numerous track awards, died April 13. She had gone to a party the night before, then returned home and spent hours talking with her mother.

Methyl salicylate poisoning is unusual, and deaths from high levels of the chemical are rare.
"Chronic use is more dangerous than one-time use," Edward Arsura, chairman of medicine at Richmond University Medical Center, told the Staten Island Advance on Friday. "Exercise and heat can accentuate absorption."

Dr. Ronald Grelsamer, of Mount Sinai Medical Center, said Newman had a very abnormal amount of methyl salicylate in her body.

"She either lathered herself with it, or used way too much, or she used a normal amount and an abnormal percentage was absorbed into her body," he said.
Her mother, Alice Newman, said she still couldn't believe her daughter's death was caused by a sports cream.

"I am scrupulous about my children's health," she told the Advance. "I did not think an over-the-counter product could be unsafe."

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i don't believe a word of this... what i believe caused her death is common shit... here "She had gone to a party the night before, then returned home and spent hours talking with her mother." ... you figure it out...

fucking bullshit... anything to catch the public's eye...
i have another story about creatine being the cause of someone losing his leg... i won't post it cuz it crossed the line with bullshit media...
oh... i have a video of a dumbshit reporter about GH side effects... from the way she described it, cyanide would look healthy when compared to GH... and GH is known for having NO SIDE EFFECTS WHATSOEVER in regular doses.

i'll post somemore crap later tomorrow or something...
crap i'm hungry...