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<blockquote data-quote="Opmmur" data-source="post: 70462" data-attributes="member: 13"><p><span style="font-size: 26px"><strong>Man dared to drink quart of soy sauce almost dies from salt poisoning</strong></span></p><p> </p><p><img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim2/2013/06/07/soysauce_620x350.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Workers inspect bottles of Kowloon Soy Sauce at their factory in the New Territories area of Hong Kong on December 15, 2008, one of the oldest companies making the sauce using traditional methods. / TED ALJIBE/AFP/Getty Images</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">A young man who drank a quart of soy sauce went into a coma and nearly died from an excess of salt in his body, according to a recent case report.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The 19-year-old, who drank the soy sauce after being dared by friends, is the first person known to have deliberately overdosed on such a high amount of salt and survived with no lasting neurological problems, according to the doctors in Virginia who reported his case. The case report was published online June 4 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Too much salt in the blood, a condition called hypernatremia, is usually seen in people with psychiatric conditions who develop a strong appetite for the condiment, said Dr. David J. Carlberg, who treated the young man and works as an emergency medicine physician at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Hypernatremia is dangerous because it causes the brain to lose water. When there is <a href="http://www.livescience.com/36256-salt-bad-health.html" target="_blank">too much salt</a>in the bloodstream, water moves out of the body tissues and into the blood by the process of osmosis, to try to equalize the salt concentration between the two. As water the leaves the brain, the organ can shrink and bleed, Carlberg said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">After the man drank the soy sauce, he began twitching and having seizures, and the friends took him to an emergency room. That hospital administered anti-seizure medication, and he was already <a href="http://www.livescience.com/25030-coma-brain-reorganized.html" target="_blank">in a coma</a> when he was taken to the hospital where Carlberg was working, the University of Virginia Medical Center, nearly four hours after the event.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">"He didn't respond to any of the stimuli that we gave him," Carlberg said. "He had some clonus, which is just elevated reflexes. It's a sign that basically the nervous system wasn't working very well."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The team immediately began flushing the salt out of his system by administering a solution of water and the sugar dextrose through a nasal tube. When they placed the tube, streaks of brown material came out. Within a half hour, they pumped 1.5 gallons (6 liters) of sugar water into the man's body.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">The man's sodium levels returned to normal after about five hours. He remained in a coma for three days, but woke up on his own.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">For several days afterward, a part of his brain called the hippocampus showed residual effects from the seizures. But a month after the event, he showed no sign of the <a href="http://www.livescience.com/36527-methadone-overdose-deaths-cdc.html" target="_blank">overdose</a>: He was back at college, and doing well on his exams, doctors reported.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">A typical quart of soy sauce has more than 0.35 pounds (0.16 kilograms) of salt, the researchers said.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Most cases of sodium overdose happen more gradually. In the 1960s and 1970s, doctors actually gave salt to patients suffering from poisoning, to initiate vomiting, until they realized its harmful effects.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Though it's rare in the United States, consuming excess salt was a traditional method for <a href="http://www.livescience.com/23432-suicide-kills-more-than-car-crashes.html" target="_blank">suicide</a> in ancient China, according to the case report.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">Carlberg said he believes the young man survived because the team got his sodium levels down so quickly.</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 18px">"We were more aggressive than had been reported before in terms of bringing his sodium back down to a safer range," Carlberg told LiveScience. Reducing sodium levels more slowly has had poor or mixed results in the past, he said.</span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>The Link: <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57588294/man-dared-to-drink-quart-of-soy-sauce-almost-dies-from-salt-poisoning/" target="_blank">Man dared to drink quart of soy sauce almost dies from salt poisoning - CBS News</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
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