Tyler was admitted after suffering from dehydration. Channel 4 reports that he only paused the game to use the bathroom, grab a snack, take a shower and to visit his aunt who told WCMH, “It’s like he was looking at me but he wasn’t there. It was like he was looking through me….We were talking and I heard a thump and I looked over and he just fell.”
Rigsby’s mother, Jessie Rawlins, said she became scared when he turned pale and his lips “became a disturbing blue color.”
Dr. Mike Patrick, an emergency physician at Nationwide Children’s Hospital explained the obsessed gamers medical condition:
“When you’re dehydrated, the amount of fluid in your entire body is decreased and that includes the fluid that’s in your blood vessels…..so you have decreased blood volume. That leads to decreased blood pressure. When your blood pressure gets to a certain point, you’re unable to get enough blood up to the brain. If you’re not getting enough oxygen to the brain, that can cause you to pass out and it could cause you to die.”
Rigsby was released from OSU the same day, but don’t expect to find him in the XBox community anytime soon. The family threw their Xbox 360 away.
