He had to put something on the Workman's Comp request.
Posted on 09/29/2007 11:13:06 AM PDT by em2vn
When a 37-year old man walked into a hospital emergency room in Glasgow, Scotland last October complaining of "wavy" vision and a non-stop headache that had lasted four weeks, doctors were at first stumped, the British journal The Lancet reported today.
The unnamed patient "had no history of head injury or loss of consciousness; his past medical record was unremarkable, and he was taking no medications . . . ." Body temperature and blood pressure were both normal, and a neurological exam scanned negative.
But when an eye specialist was called in, the fog began to clear, at least for the doctors.
The patient, said the ophthalmologist, had swollen optical discs, greatly enlarged blind spots and what eye doctors call "flame haemorrhages," or bleeding nerve fibres.
"We sought a more detailed history" from the patient, noted one named Zia.
This is when the man revealed he had consumed 60 pints - roughly 35 litres - of beer over a four day period, following a domestic crisis.
Doctors believe severe dehydration, caused by the alcohol, led to a rare condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST). A scan of the brain's blood vessels confirmed the diagnosis.
CVST - which can cause seizures, impaired consciousness, loss of vision and neurological damage - strikes three or four people per million, mainly children, every year in Britain. The cause is generally unknown.
It took more than six months of long-term blood-thinning treatment to restore the man's normal vision - and to get rid of the headache, the doctors reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
You’d think this guy would have learned after the last time, which was Tuesday.
Get back in the game!
What a lightweight.
I knew a few guys in college who could easily drink this much on a regular basis.
No doubt. Everyone knows that you need to drink some water now and then when you’re boozin’.
Rub some dirt on it . . . .
National health. People are dying for lack of medical treatment, and they spend a month on a dehydrated drunk.
Oops, make that 6 months.
Snow works even better.
4 week hangover?
He had to put something on the Workman's Comp request.
This guy gets the full medical workup and treatment but I read the other day about a guy in Britain who has an ankle injury that won’t heal but has had treatment refused until he quits smoking. Hillary care.
Jim Beam me up Scotty!
l pint = 16 oz., and 60x16 oz. = 960 oz. That would be the equivalent of 80 12 oz. cans of beer, which means 3.33 cases (24 cans) of U.S. beer
Of course, our man was presumably drinking Scottish or English beer and I wouldn't know if their beer is stronger than ours or what.
Ah, but a British pint is 20 British fluid ounces (about 19 American fluid ounces), so he drank even more.
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