Fatal hypernatremia after using salt as
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Elisabeth Elena TΓΌrk; Friedrich Schulz; Erwin Koops; Axel Gehl; Michael Tsokos
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Article
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2005
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Although a plethora of reports on life-threatening complications of salt emesis has been published since the early 1960s, salt is still used to induce emesis in cases of intoxication in the clinical as well as in the domestic setting. We report three cases of fatal hypernatremia after salt was used