Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

A comatose 19-year-old man after he drank about a quart of soy sauce. He reportedly almost died because his body of excess salt Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma.

The young man drank his ketchup after being challenged. Men from Virgnia, USA, whose name was withheld are the first to experience an overdose of salt in a very large number and were rescued without any neurological disorders.

Although the dominant taste sweet, but the sauce actually contains high salt. In one liter of soy sauce contained about 0.16 pounds of salt.

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

Too much salt in the body, also known as hypernatremia, commonly experienced by people with psychiatric disorders with a high appetite.

Hypernatremia is a dangerous condition because it causes the brain to lose water. If the salt levels in the blood circulation too much, the water will come out of the body tissues and into the blood through a process of osmosis, to balance the salt concentration. Because the water in the brain as well come out, then this vital organ will shrink and bleeding.

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

According to Dr.David J.Carlberg, doctors who deal with the soy sauce man who overdosed, the patient began having seizures after drinking a liter of soy sauce. By her he was then taken to the hospital.

After being given anti-seizure medication, the man went into a coma and was taken to another hospital where Carlberg practice.

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

"He did not provide a response to all the stimulation provided. He suffered a muscle contraction or increased reflexes. Basically this shows her nervous system is not working well," said Carlberg.

The team of doctors and pumping salt out of the body with fluids and sugar through a tube inserted into the nose. It was carried out for 30 minutes and doctors successfully pumping 6 liters of sugar water from his body.

Levels of sodium in his body returned to normal after 5 hours. He was in a coma for three days and has now regained consciousness.

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

A few days after the incident, the hippocampus part of the brain showed a residual effect. But a month later the man had recovered and showed no signs of overdose. Reported his brain function returns to normal as he returned to college and be able to take the exam.

Carlberg said, the patient survived because the team doctors to quickly reduce levels of sodium from the body.

Overdose Drinking soy sauce, One Man's Coma

Most cases of overdose of sodium progresses slowly. In the 1960s and 1970s, doctors did provide salt to induce vomiting in patients experiencing toxicity. But eventually realized that these measures have a negative impact to the body.

In the days of ancient China, an overdose of salt to be one way to commit suicide.