UK: Call for regulation after cold water therapy death, 2023

A woman has called for cold water therapy to be regulated after an inquest heard her daughter suffered a "sudden cardiac death".

Kellie Poole, 39, died on 25 April 2022 after collapsing back into the River Goyt in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire.

Expert Dr Damian Kelly, when asked if the cold water could have triggered cardiac arrest, said: "Yes, I think that is what has happened."

Ms Poole's mother, Diane Service, said regulation could save someone else.

"I can't believe that these activities are not regulated," she said. "I know it is nobody's fault, but I just can't believe it.

"It is a change that needs to come very soon. It is too late for Kellie, but not for someone else."

Ms Poole, from Droylsden in Tameside, Greater Manchester, had been attending the session with two friends.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-66923083

 

Being immersed in cold water has been known to cause heart attacks.

The idea that cold water immersion can cure ME has been promoted.

Probably, cold water immersion has been promoted as a beneficial treatment for many things.