AED Information:
Helpful information regarding Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
Dietary Supplements:
DANGEROUS: Food and Drug Administration Says Dietary Supplements containing BD, GBL, and GHB can kill you! Dangerous products sold as dietary supplements for bodybuilding, weight loss, and sleep aids have been linked to deaths and severe sickness requiring hospitalization. These products are made from chemicals named:
Swallowing any of these ingredients may make you extremely sick and may even kill you. BD, GBL, and GHB are used to make floor stripper, paint thinner, and other industrial products. FDA determined that dietary supplements containing these chemicals are really unapproved drugs because of the effect they have on the body. It is illegal to sell anything for human consumption that contains GHB, GBL and BD. They can cause breathing problems, coma, vomiting, seizures and sometimes death. GHB, GBL and BD also increase the effects of alcohol and are even more dangerous when taken along with other drugs. Items that contain BD include Revitalize Plus, Serenity, Enliven, GHRE, SomatoPro, NRG3, Thunder Nectar and Weight Belt Cleaner. GBL product names include: Longevity, Revivarant, G.H. Revitalizer, Gamma G, Blue Nitro, Insom-X, Remforce, Firewater and Invigorate. Previously, FDA warned consumers not to drink the products named Cherry fX Bombs, Lemon fX Drops and Orange fX Rush. The dangerous products may list 1,4 butanediol, tetramethylene glycol, gamma butyrolactone or 2(3H)-Furanone di hydro on the label – but some products have no label at all. GBL-related products are listed as “party drugs” on internet sites, advertised in muscle-building magazines, and sold in health food stores as dietary supplements. Some of these products have been used as “date rape” drugs. In 1990, FDA banned the use of GHB, but some companies switched ingredients to GBL and after warnings about GBL, switched to BD. These are all very similar chemicals which the body converst to GHB with the same dangerous effects. GBL-related products have been linked to at least 122 serious illnesses reported to FDA — including three deaths. For more information contact the Food and Drug Administration at 1-888-INFO-FDA or visit their website. |
LIGHTNING SAFETY
Reprinted with permission from NCAA and NSSL, for informational purposed only.
Lightning is the most consistent and significant weather hazard that may affect interscholastic athletics. Within the United States, the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL) estimates that 100 fatalities and 400-500 injuries requiring medical treatment occur from lightning strikes every year. While the probability of being struck by lightning is extremely low, the odds are significantly greater when a storm is in the area and the proper safety precautions are not followed.
Prevention and education are the keys to lightning safety. Education begins with background information on lightning. The references associated with this guideline are an appropriate resource. Prevention should begin long before any interscholastic athletic event or practice. The following steps are recommended by the NSSL to mitigate the lightning hazard:
Safe structure or location is defined as:
LIGHTNING AWARENESS
Lightning awareness should be increased with the first flash of lightning or the first clap of thunder, no matter how far away. This activity must be treated as a wake-up call to interscholastic athletic personnel. The most important aspect to monitor is how far away the lightning is occurring, and how fast the storm is approaching, relative to the distance of a safe shelter.
Specific lightning-safety guidelines have been developed for the NCAA with the assistance of the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL).
Note: Commercial weather warning services with sophisticated cloud-to-ground lightning detection devices are available. They may offer a cost effective, efficient method of making accurate, timely decisions on location and movement of lightning storms. Such devices are helpful in making decisions regarding stoppage of play, practice, evacuation, and return to activity.
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