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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus, Ohio, mother has taken away her son’s Xbox after he spent four to five days locked in his bedroom playing a marathon game and collapsed from dehydration, nbc4i.com reported.
Jessie Rawlins said her son, Tyler, 15, collapsed three times before she called the paramedics (who hooked him up to IV fluids), and he was brought to a nearby hospital. “I was very scared,” Rawlins said. “I thought he was going to die.”
Tyler was playing the game Modern Warfare 3 and rarely left his bedroom during his marathon gaming session. Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told nbc4i.com that dehydration can be deadly.
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