Soy Sauce ‘Cleanse’ Nearly Kills Woman After She Drinks a Litre in 2 Hours for 'Detoxification'
The woman identified only as CG was worried that the government was poisoning her.
A US woman who had been on a ‘soy sauce cleanse’ is battling for her life as the diet went horribly wrong. The 39-year-old was following a dangerous internet fad, which involved chugging copious amounts of soy sauce for detoxification. She was left brain dead after she experienced a relapse of coeliac disease. YouTube channel Chubbyemu first reported the case. According to their video, the woman, named only as CG has been admitted to an emergency room in the Illinois Medical District.
The patient drank a litre of soy sauce in a matter of two hours after listening to a hoax video on the internet. According to CG’s husband, prior to the incident, she was already in poor health and had lost 25 lbs in just three weeks. She was following an extremely restrictive diet of just canned fish and white bread, which had left her vitamin and iron deficient. Woman Dies After Drinking Bitter Lauki Juice in Pune! Here’s Why It’s Dangerous To Drink Bottle Gourd Juice.
Recently, she was also hospitalised for exhibiting signs of paranoid schizophrenia and believed that the government was poisoning her. Around that time, CG came across a video online which said that anyone who drank a litre of soy sauce within two hours could evacuate their entire body within a day.
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CG took the bait and consumed a litre of soy sauce, in a bid to rid her body of all the alleged toxins. Within moments, her heartbeats started racing, and her hands and legs were tingling. Her stomach also started cramping uncontrollably, which she mistook for signs of toxins leaving her body. Her husband rushed her to the hospital after she fell unconscious. In the ambulance, her heart stopped beating, and she experienced a cardiac arrest.
For the next four days, she drifted in and out of consciousness. And when she was finally revived, she could speak, move or eat. The excessive amount of salt in the soy had damaged her nerve cells. Dublin Homeless 10-Year-Old Dies From Allergic Reaction to McDonald’s Peri Peri Wrap.
Dr Bernard, the man who runs the YouTube channel, tells viewers that CG could be suffering from acute hypernatremia caused by the sodium-rich soy sauce. Hypernatremia is a condition where there is excessive sodium in the blood. He explains that 15 ml of soy sauce have 2 ½ grams of salt while the daily recommended amount is just 5.8 grams. A lethal dose, enough to cause ailments, is 40 grams. He says that CG drank a litre of soy sauce, which has 200 grams of salt, five times the lethal amount!
Most patients who have symptoms of hypernatremia experience fluid loss and clinical signs of dehydration. Symptoms and signs of hypernatremia are seen when serum sodium rises rapidly or becomes greater than 160 meq/L.
Most patients present with symptoms suggesting fluid loss and clinical signs of dehydration. Symptoms and signs of hypernatremia are secondary to central nervous system dysfunction and are seen when serum sodium rises rapidly or is greater than 160 meq/L.
According to Dr Bernard, the woman also had an undiagnosed case of coeliac disease, which was evident by the evidence of “marked villous blunting and atrophy in her cells.”
CG’s case shows why there should be a crackdown on malicious, unscientific content on the internet. Such videos exploit the gullibility of the viewers for a few views and forwards. There have been instances in the past where unsuspecting people have fallen gravely ill or lost lives, falling prey to fad diets on the internet.
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