Here Are 10 Of The Most Unexpected Things That You Can Overdose On

Last Updated on January 7, 2021

It is said that too much of a good thing can be also a bad thing. This might be a bit confusing but there are certain things that you can actually overdose on which will basically put your life in danger and lead you to several health complications!

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Soy Sauce

The last thing you might ever expect is to be at death’s door when excessively consuming soy sauce. This might sound surprising but this delicate yet salty flavored sauce can end your life and in the luckiest cases, you will survive but with fatal and permanent neurological problems.

Back to 2013, a 19-year-old man from Virginia accepted to drink 0.9 liters of soy sauce as a dare. The guy went into a coma and almost died from the very high amount of salt in his body.

This latter condition is scientifically known as hypernatremia and occurs when the bloodstream becomes completely saturated as a result of the excessive and high amount of salt in the body.

Therefore, to lower the salt concentration, the bloodstream starts to draw and absorb the water from all the other parts of the body, including the brain which in turn may shrink and bleed in case it loses water.

According to reports, what happened to the guy right after consuming the soy sauce was really scary and frightening. He began to have seizures and his friends immediately took him to the hospital.

However, he had fallen into a coma and the doctors rushed around to help him out by flushing the salt from his system using a combination of water and sugar dextrose. Luckily, his sodium levels returned to normal but he remained in a coma for three days before waking up healthy and unharmed.

The doctor said that it’s really a miracle because he was the first person to overdose on such high amount of salt and survive without any neurological problems.