{"id":6932,"date":"2013-06-10T22:58:30","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T02:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ultimatefatburner.com\/?p=6932"},"modified":"2015-12-07T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-12-07T16:52:56","slug":"college-student-nearly-dies-after-soy-sauce-od","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/college-student-nearly-dies-after-soy-sauce-od\/","title":{"rendered":"College Student Nearly Dies After Soy Sauce OD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2013\/06\/07\/soy-sauce-overdose-sends-man-into-coma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this story on LiveScience<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2013\/06\/10\/deliberately-chugging-an-excessive-amount-of-soy-sauce-can-put-you-in-a-literal-food-coma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Consumerist<\/a>), I did a double-take&#8230; It&#8217;s tough to believe that someone &#8211; even a college student &#8211; could be so foolhardy.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A young man who drank a quart of soy sauce went into a coma and nearly died from an excess of salt in his body, according to a recent case report.<\/p>\n<p>The 19-year-old, who drank the soy sauce after being dared by friends, is the first person known to have deliberately overdosed on such a high amount of salt and survived with no lasting neurological problems, according to the doctors in Virginia who reported his case. The case report was published online June 4 in the Journal of Emergency Medicine.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/23735849\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The abstract of the case report is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This incident reminds me of a Robert A. Heinlein quote: &#8220;&#8230;stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal&#8230;&#8221; If not for the unusually aggressive emergency treatment the man received, he very likely would have died. Death-by-soy-sauce has happened before (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/12935448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/21315305\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, for example) &#8211; and it makes perfect sense. The stuff&#8217;s practically liquid salt &#8211; even just a glance at the label would reveal that much. Just because it&#8217;s &#8220;food&#8221; and is safe to consume in small amounts doesn&#8217;t automatically make it safe in large amounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first saw this story on LiveScience (via Consumerist), I did a double-take&#8230; It&#8217;s tough to believe that someone &#8211; even a college student &#8211; could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[608],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6932"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10433,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6932\/revisions\/10433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ultimatefatburner.com\/ufb-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}