Recently, the Omickron virus has come in full force, and more and more people have become "Xiaoyang people". There are also many small recipes for preventing or treating COVID-19 , such as " drink more hot water ". However, drinking water is also of particular concern, and you should not drink it randomly! Recently, a female patient in Chengdu was infected with water by drinking too much water, and was rushed to ICU for emergency treatment in Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital.
A woman was "sunshine" and was poisoned into ICU.
December 15, a reporter from Sichuan Mobile News learned from Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital that recently, the hospital's emergency ICU admitted a middle-aged female patient. She tested positive for the new crown and was already confused when she was sent to the hospital. The doctor diagnosed that the woman was actually water poisoning.
Yang Peng, attending physician of the emergency department of Sichuan People's Hospital, introduced that they learned through their families that the woman had fever symptoms after being infected with the new coronavirus. In order to cool down as soon as possible, she drank a lot of water. Drinking a lot of water caused low sodium, the woman fell into a coma and was admitted to the intensive care unit . The woman has improved after treatment.
Why is water poisoning? Severe or fatal!
It is reported that under normal circumstances, the concentration of sodium ion in and outside the cells in the body is in equilibrium. When the water intake far exceeds the discharge, excessive water will remain in the body, causing plasma to be diluted, thereby reducing the concentration of sodium ions in the plasma. This phenomenon is "water poisoning", also known as " diluted hyponatremia ".
When water is poisoned, the concentration of sodium ions outside the cell is lower than that inside the cell. In order to maintain the concentration balance inside and outside the cell, water outside the cell will flow into the cell, causing the cell to swell. If brain cells expand, because the brain is fixed and wrapped by hard brain bones and the brain tissue is squeezed, it may cause brain edema and , causing symptoms such as headache, drowsiness, blurred vision, etc., and may even be fatal in severe cases.
Public reports show that in September 2020, a woman in Shenzhen drank 3.2 liters of water at one time in order to have a B-ultrasound examination. As a result, she developed symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, hand and foot twitching. She was diagnosed with "water poisoning" and was rescued for 4 hours before she escaped. How to properly rehydrate
? Doctor: Don’t exceed 3 liters per day
Yang Peng suggested that if you are sick and have a fever, you can drink boiled water or light salt water appropriately. "Do not drink more than 3 liters of water within 24 hours to avoid water poisoning!" Yang Peng reminded that drinking water should not be excessive, especially for people with poor kidney and heart function.
Source: Sichuan Mobile Newsletter
