deadmansbones said:
SUPRMAN said:
A source close to the situation tells Kevin that the pop icon was found slumped over the side of the bathtub with her head face down submerged in the water, but with her legs still outside of the bathtub. Multiple reports until now have indicated that Whitney was found underwater when she was discovered on Saturday.
The source added that people who spent time with Whitney in the hours preceding her death said it did not appear the superstar was under the influence.
Attempts to revive the 48-year-old singer were not successful at the Beverly Hills Hilton, where she was found hours before she was to appear at producer Clive Davis' annual pre-Grammy Awards party.
An autopsy was conducted on Sunday, but no cause of death has been determined pending the results of toxicology reports that are expected to take several weeks. Authorities have said there were no indications of foul play and no obvious signs of trauma when they examined Houston's body.
Even if she had run her bath water, and there was steam... if it was hot in there, that might have been enough to cause a sudden drop in blood pressure.
In fact, even sitting down or standing up, too fast can cause a sudden drop on blood pressure.
Even if she were on prescribed medication and had been drinking, this could have caused cardiac problems, too.
And even if she had been drinking in excess all that week, but not on that day, this could have cause some cardio-vascular problems.
All I know for sure is alcohol is a depressant. Valium is depressant. Xanax is a depressant. All of those can lower your blood pressure. But then to compensate, your heart starts racing. Then heat exposure can lower your blood pressure, too.
As a matter of fact, excessive alcohol consumption can contribute to heart and blood pressure problems, too. Your blood pressure can lower initially, but then eventually elevate to where you can have high blood pressure.
It is dangerous to even drink alcohol and take decongestants. So... that's all I know.
If Whitney had died while a passenger in somebody else's car, for sure there would be no indication that her drug and alcohol problems contributed to her death.
But that still doesn't mean she wasn't playing with fire if she was drinking and taking prescription drugs. It just hadn't caught up with her.
And by all accounts, she didn't slip and hit her head in the bathroom. So as far as I'm concerned, the situation was dangerous.
Agreed.