Soy
sauce is tasty, but apparently it can also be deadly at high levels.
Kids, here's why it's dumb to drink a quart of soy sauce as a dare:
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 in a coma when
he was taken to the hospital where Carlberg was working, the University
of Virginia Medical Center, nearly four hours after the event.
"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."
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.
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.
Tia Ghose of LiveScience has the post:
Here.
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