A soy sauce overdose recently put a teenager in a coma.

College student John Paul Boldrick reportedly consumed an entire quart of the sauce on a dare back in 2011. What he didn’t know beforehand was that the stuff can be hazardous to your health in very high doses.

The excess amount of salt in the 19-year-old’s blood caused him to slip into a coma. According to doctors, the soy sauce overdose nearly cost Boldrick his life.

After consuming a quart of the sauce, the man reportedly began having seizures. Friends quickly took him to the emergency room, where he was given anti-seizure medication. He was later transferred to the University of Virginia Medical Center. Doctors said he was already in a coma when he arrived.

The soy sauce overdose caused the kid to suffer from hypernatremia, which is when the blood contains a high concentration of sodium. This can cause water from the brain to fill the bloodstream in order to make everything balanced. As a result, the organ can shrink and bleed out.

The teenager was under the care of Dr. David J. Carlberg, who immediately began flushing the salt from the kid’s body by pumping in sugar water through a tube in his nose.

“He didn’t respond to any of the stimuli that we gave him. He had some clonus, which is just elevated reflexes. It’s a sign that basically the nervous system wasn’t working very well,” Dr. Carlberg explained.

He added, “We were more aggressive than had been reported before in terms of bringing his sodium back down to a safer range.”

Thanks to his team’s ability to flush out the salt in a timely manner, the teenager survived the coma and was soon on the mend. Although he experienced residual seizures, he was soon back in college and on with his life.

What do you think about the soy sauce overdose that put a teenager in a coma? Have you ever gotten sick by eating too much of something?

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