On the operating table at a medical center in Illinois hit 39-year-old patient, after drinking a liter of soy sauce for 2 hours — as she was advised to clean the colon. Caught the body, 200 grams of salt exceeded many times the lethal dose. This recipe of rehabilitation googled it on some website…
Over the last 3 years the number of search queries in Google on the topic of self-medication increased by 8 800%(!). Such data with reference to the study Perkbox Medical reports Financial Express. Also exponentially growing number of sites made under such requests. Unfortunately, not all these sites are filled with people with medical knowledge. Moreover, any real doctor, in principle, is wary of the Google-treatment, when people in the base during an Internet search yourself diagnosed, and then choose methods of treatment.
These forms of medicine in many countries lead to tragic consequences, which are not amenable to study, statistics and analysis, as they are very difficult to fix. But doctors can remember many stories each from personal experience, including the most terrible.
So 39-year-old woman in Illinois saw in the Internet a roller with the next helpful advice, drank within two hours, a liter of soy sauce to clean his colon. It says on YouTube now. Bernard, after that she lost consciousness, and her husband called 911. On the way to the hospital her heart stopped. In addition to salt, the sauce contains a large amount of sodium, which once in the stomach was rapidly pulling water from the body, and from all organs and from the brain. At first having trouble swallowing, then paralysis and death of the brain. Doctors were forced to observe all this, being unable to force anything to change.
The authors of the report Perkbox Medical pay attention that the warming of the interest in self-treatment may involved a pharmaceutical company that sells over-the-counter drugs available to people in the pharmacy. Allowing Google to convince yourself instead of going to the doctor, quick to heal at your local pharmacy or some kind of folk remedy, Internet users are exposing themselves to serious risks. Doctors recommended for self-treatment often recall the story of a woman with soy sauce.
