pammiejoe6

whoa! i had NO IDEA this could happen! i use icy hot all the time! ACK!

from: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070609...POH5b_Wni9kM3wV

NEW YORK - 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."

Hacking is a Felony

wow .. that's crazy!

pammiejoe6

according to the news article she had attended a party the night before...i wonder what she consumed at the party? muscle cream contains oil of wintergreen which is also found in some gums....peppermints, etc....i dont see how they can say for certain that it was the muscle cream....

Wintergreen
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Wintergreen is a term that can refer to various groups of plants:

Wintergreen once commonly referred to plants that continue photosynthesis (remain green) throughout the winter. The term evergreen is now more commonly used for this characteristic.
Some species of the shrub genus Gaultheria in the closely related family Ericaceae also demonstrate this characteristic and are called wintergreens in North America, the most common generally being the Eastern Teaberry (Gaultheria procumbens).
Several genera of herbaceous plants in the family Pyrolaceae, notably Pyrola, Orthilia, Moneses and Chimaphila, demonstrate this characteristic and are called wintergreens.



Wintergreen is also the name given to a range of evergreen plants throughout the world, particularly Gaultheria species, that share the common characteristic of producing oil of wintergreen, the chemical methyl salicylate, which gives plants a distinctive "medicinal" smell when bruised. This oil is used in some kinds of chewing gum and candy, as an alternative to the more common peppermint and spearmint oils. It is also a potentially entertaining source of triboluminescence; when mixed with sugar and dried, it gains the tendency to build up electrical charge when ground, producing the very real Wint'O'Green Lifesavers phenomenon, where you can go into a dark room, wait for your eyes to adjust, and then see sparks in a mirror while chewing the candy with your mouth open. Some species of birch also produce oil of wintergreen, but these deciduous trees are not called wintergreens.
Some species of the herbaceous genus Trientalis in the unrelated family Primulaceae are known as 'Chickweed Wintergreen'.
Wintergreen may also refer to:

Wintergreen, a type of evergreen plant that produces oil of wintergreen
Methyl salicylate, also known as oil of wintergreen
Wintergreen (book), a book by Robert Pyle
Wintergreen (comics), a character in the Teen Titans comic
Wintergreen Resort, located in Virginia
Wintergreen (band)
ex-PFC Wintergreen, a fictional character from Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22
Of Thee I Sing, a satirical political play, features a presidential candidate named Wintergreen.

DarkFalcon

Wow that's crazy, seems a little strange that she went to a party the night before her death. Might of been a combination of something she took that night and the mucsle cream. :geek:

Peaked_18

That's why my dick fell off...

pammiejoe6

YEOWCH!

powerman2000

That's why I use Neoprene wraps over my knees and elbows once I'm all lathered up.

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