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.
Putting dog food in the same class as Matzo balls and gefilta fish is just wrong. My grandmother made a Matzo ball soup and gefilta fish to die for. These kids don't know good eating.
Matzo ball soup.... AKA .....Jewish penicillin.
Hazing is a practice that UPPER classmen (Sophs, Jun's and Sen's) compel LOWER classmen to do REALLY stupid and often dangerous things.
NO ONE thought a massive dose of Sodium MIGHT be dangerous ?
2 to 4 yeaqrs of ..(spit) college and no one has a clue about the dangers of sodium?
And the LOWER classmen?
They're so sycophantly stupid, THEY wouldn't care WHAT they knew about sodium (if indeed they DO know anything ... see upper classmen reference above), they just, "Yeah, sure, sir ..."
These mush heads will graduate, get high paying jobs, marry bahbiebimbo mush heads and reproduce more mush heads.
Yes, covered by Obamacare, but now his student loan may not be ENTIRELY forgiven. See pages 897-898.
Yes, covered by Obamacare, but now his student loan may not be ENTIRELY forgiven. See pages 897-898.
They went beyond double secret probation.
Wow, he went through all that and still didn't get in.
It is obvious that the nation needs to restrict soy sauce consumption to children, and furthermore expand the jurisdiction of the BATFE to include soy sauce, making it the BATFESS.
Problem is he was thirsty again an hour later.
I bet he wanted more 20 minutes later.
Jokes, jokes, and more jokes.
Thanks rickmichaels.
He survived without brain.
Didn’t have one in the first place.
“I found some at the oriental food market that is mushrom flavored. Great stuff.”
Look for the Pearl River Bridge and Happy Boy brands. I’m a connoisseur of Chinese food, and they’re the best!
Now all you conservatives can see the reason for the $1 trillion in government (taxpayer) backed student debt.
It’s the “college experience”.
I’ll look for it.
I don’t think they teach chemistry any more, someone might figure out how to make a bomb.
From my cold dead hands will they take my soy sauce.
This is a tragic story. That I can’t consume liters of soy sauce at one seating is truly tragic.
A hazing featuring good gefilte fish and matzo ball soup? Those kids should be sent to culinary school, not punished.
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