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10 Things That Will Kill You, According to Women's MagazinesWater fountains, iPhones and makeup brushes -- you've been warned |
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The source: Cosmopolitan
The account: "Four days after Nicole Luongo graduated from college, she mysteriously passed out in a bookstore. 'All of a sudden, I had a pain in my side. I dropped and couldn't get up for five minutes....It felt like the equivalent of 20 bones being broken," she says.
The details: "'I drank from a water fountain at my college graduation,' she [told her gastroenterologist]. The doctor stared at her, shaking his head. 'I'm pretty sure you have giardia.'"
The fine print: "Usually, a course of antibiotics will clear it up, but ... the doctors made a startling discovery: Nicole had an immune deficiency so severe that she lacked white blood cells....She had no immune system to recover."
The bottom line: Make sure to receive a battery of invasive blood tests before drinking anything but Perrier.
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