When I was slathering on Ben Gay during, and in the days following the 3-Day walk last October, I never stopped to think that what I was doing was unsafe, or that too much Ben Gay could be harmful to me. But that’s exactly what caused 17 year old Arielle Newman’s death. The New York runner used the muscle cream obsessively, and wore pads containing it in addition to rubbing on the cream several times a day. The medical examiner said that Arielle died from Methyl salicylate poisoning. Methyl salicylate is the main ingredient in Ben Gay, and exercise and heat can increase the rate at which it is absorbed into the body.

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