Posted on 06/08/2013 7:05:12 AM PDT by rickmichaels
A university student who went into a coma after drinking a bottle of soy sauce as part of an initiation is the first person known to survive such a massive blast of sodium without brain damage.
That’s according to The Journal of Emergency Medicine, which recently published an article on this severe case of hypernatremia – a condition marked by too much sodium in the bloodstream.
The student, then 19, drank a full quart of soy sauce in a hazing incident at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Va., where he was a Zeta Psi fraternity pledge in 2011.
Media reports say he was also dared to eat dog food, matzo balls and gefilte fish.
The study’s authors said that to their knowledge, the peak salt concentration in his blood was the highest documented among adults who had survived without “neurologic deficits.”
He arrived at an emergency room “in a comatose state with seizure-like activity” two hours after drinking the soy sauce, according to the article. Reports say he was also foaming at the mouth.
He was treated and released from hospital four days later.
Intentional consumption of dangerous amounts of salt is rare, the authors said, and often fatal.
The fraternity was ordered to shut down for two years after an investigation into the incident.
I’ll guess the brain damage was a pre-existing condition.
Craves chow mein, however..
Media reports say he was also dared to eat dog food, matzo balls and gefilte fish.
LOL
You mean you can’t do this? I love soy sauce!
I do too but a small bottle, far less than a liter, lasts me for many months.
“You mean you can’t do this? I love soy sauce.”
I found some at the oriental food market that is mushrom flavored. Great stuff.
I thought all teenagers came with brain damage until they turn 21.
What a frigging idiot!
covered under obamacare
“If the soy sauce don’t kill ya’, the gefilte fish will.”
Gee dad, thanks for the money to go to college to learn something. Well I did.
Me too.
Ask any veterinarian about hogs and salt poisoning and they will tell you the consequences. Its of a main concern to pork producers, especially during the winter.
He was arrested four days later on an attempted break in at the Peking Moon buffett
I live in Japan, and I didn’t know soy had high concentrations of sodium o.O
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