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Yeah I thought it was a bit misleading too, it's not exactly 'stopping salt' that caused it, any more than you could describe the ill-effects of swapping nastur
by OJFord 1y ago
Yeah I thought it was a bit misleading too, it's not exactly 'stopping salt' that caused it, any more than you could describe the ill-effects of swapping nasturtiums for lily of the valley in your salads as 'avoiding edible flowers'.
- kragen 1y agoHe was poisoning himself for three months before he was treated, and apparently made a full recovery: > He was tapered off risperidone before discharge and remained stable off medication at a check-in 2 weeks after discharge. https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/epdf/10.7326/aimcc.2024.1260 If you eliminated sodium chloride from your diet without replacing it with another sodium source, you would die in much less than three months; I think you'd be lucky to make it two weeks. You can't replace sodium with potassium or lithium or ammonium to the same degree that you can replace chloride with bromide.
- OJFord 1y agoEven if you managed to reduce your intake enough to cause hyponatremia, I'm not sure that fits the 'rare condition' bill, and probably would've been discharged in well under 2 weeks after some fluids and advice. Would be interesting if he started to become symptomatic and so asked ChatGPT and that's where he got the idea that it needed to be replaced with something though. (But I suspect it was more along the lines of salty taste without the NaCl intake.)