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A neighbor of mine became dehydrated because of an infection (I think it was a kidney infection, but I'm not sure). She went to the emergency room and they push
by inetsee 9y ago
A neighbor of mine became dehydrated because of an infection (I think it was a kidney infection, but I'm not sure). She went to the emergency room and they pushed IV fluids, and I mean pushed. They hung a total of three bags, and at one point they were squeezing the bags to increase the flow of fluids. They over-hydrated her, and then they had to give her something to deal with the over-hydration. The over-hydration, or the medicine they gave her for that, affected her heart. She went into the hospital with a simple infection, and left needing expensive heart medication.
- phaedrus441 9y agoThis sounds more like the patient had previously-undiagnosed heart failure, didn’t respond well to rehydration (since it’s easier to become volume-overloaded with heart failure), and required further work-up.
- inetsee 9y agoTo the best of my knowledge, she was in good health before she developed the infection. Her body mass index was in the normal range, and she did the recommended amount of aerobic exercise (150 minutes, moderate intensity / week). It sounds to me like an intern over-reacted to her dehydration, and over did it with the IV fluids.
- na85 9y agoExcellent anecdata.