MONTICELLO, INDIANA: It seems drinking too much water in hot summer months can be deadly as a 35-year-old Indiana mother died from water toxicity while out in the sun over the 4th of July weekend.
As per details, the 35-year-old Ashley Summers spent her Fourth of July weekend out on Lake Freeman near Monticello with her husband and two daughters.
“They were out on the boat all week and long Saturday, Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday,” Miller says.
This is Ashley’s older brother, Devon Miller. He says that Tuesday is when he got the call. Something wasn’t right.
“My sister Holly called me, and she was just an absolute wreck. She’s like Ashley’s in the hospital. She has brain swelling. They don’t know what’s causing it. They, they don’t know what they can do to get it to go down and it’s, it’s not looking good,”
Earlier that day, Ashley’s family said she was feeling dehydrated and felt like she couldn’t drink enough water.
She felt lightheaded and had a headache.
According to Blake Froberg, MD, of IU School of Medicine, water toxicity occurs when somebody drinks too much water really quickly. There are certain things that can make somebody more at risk for it, but the, the overall thing that happens is that you have too much water and not enough sodium in your body.
