Saturday, June 9, 2007

BenGay Lowers The Hammer


According to The Fanhouse (http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/)...

The New York state medical examiner has ruled that a high school track star who died in April was killed by a toxic dose of methyl salicylate, the active ingredient in common muscle rubs such as BenGay and Icy Hot. Arielle Newman was a track star at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island who was found dead on April 3rd. An initial autopsy was inconclusive, and her death has been a mystery. But yesterday Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the state medical examiner's office, said Newman accidentally used "topical medication to an excess," causing poisons to accumulate in her body and eventually lead to her death.

Alice Newman said her daughter had been using a teammate's Ultra Strength BenGay and possibly other topical analgesics on her legs this year to help her recover between track meets.
"She told me her legs felt like cement," her mother said. "She was working so hard to turn her season around."

Even with repeated use, however, it is unclear how the extremely high levels of the substance remained in her body.

Dr. Kristen Roman of the medical examiner's office told Alice Newman the toxicology report revealed more than six times the safe amount of methyl salicylate in her daughter's blood.

...Ok, how can this be true??? There MUST be more to this story. Arielle Newman must have been blind or something, thus, leading to her repeatedly mistaking toothpaste for BenGay. There is no way Newman was using more BenGay than what I used during my high school days. No way! I lived off BenGay for years. I loved it. How could you not? All pains and aches immediately disappeared after rubbing it all over yourself. Sore arm, sore elbow, sore quads, sore hamstrings...no more! Until now, I was always in the belief that BenGay was one of the best inventions/medications ever. Should this news now change my opinion?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

or maybe she was using Ben Gay instead of her usual KY jelly lube.

Chieftain said...

Very true.

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chris nowak said...

Yep. I made the same mistake Arielle did and believe that after going through a whole year of sheer hell, I shall soon die of respiratory depression.