[Treatment of salt poisoning due to soy sauce ingestion with hemodialysis].
Fatal hypernatremia due to soy sauce ingestion is rare. We describe a 65-year-old woman who became unresponsive after ingesting 1150 ml of soy sauce. Her initial blood sodium concentration was 176 mEq/l. She was treated successfully with acute hemodialysis and her serum sodium concentration decreased to 146 mEq/l without any significant neurologic complication. We recommend hemodialysis is the best approach to correct severe hypernatremia.
Sakai
Yoko
Y
Department of Anesthesiology, Tokushima Red Cross Hospital.
Kato
Michihisa
M
Okada
Tsuyoshi
T
Sagata
Yasufumi
Y
Goh
Ritsuko
R
Kohyama
Arifumi
A
Sumitomo
Michiko
M
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006955:Hypernatremia / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D006435:Renal Dialysis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary / Q000506:poisoning*; D045730:Soy Foods / Q000506:poisoning*; D013406:Suicide, Attempted; D016896:Treatment Outcome
D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary