SynthesisNutrients2017
A Systematic Review of Fatalities Related to Acute Ingestion of Salt. A Need for Warning Labels?
Synthesis in Nutrients, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Salty Despair: An Adolescent's Suicide Attempt through Salt Overdose.Psychopharmacology bulletin · 2025Article
- Carbon Monoxide as a Potential Therapeutic Agent: A Molecular Analysis of Its Safety Profiles.Journal of medicinal chemistry · 2024Review
- Metabolic effects of a submaximal dose of pink salt and monosodium glutamate in experimental rats.Heliyon · 2024Article
- Sodium - a systematic review for Nordic Nutrition Recommendations 2023.Food & nutrition research · 2024Review
- Eater-oriented knowledge framework for reducing salt and dietary sodium intake (scoping review).Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Review
- The impact of excessive salt intake on human health.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2022Review
- Sodium Toxicity in the Nutritional Epidemiology and Nutritional Immunology of COVID-19.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2021Article
- The Hazardous Level of Heavy Metals in Different Medicinal Plants and Their Decoctions in Water: A Public Health Problem in Brazil.BioMed research international · 2020Article
- Packages of sodium (Salt) sold for consumption and salt dispensers should be required to have a front of package health warning label: A position statement of the World Hypertension League, national and international health and scientific organizations.Journal of clinical hypertension (Greenwich, Conn.) · 2019Article
- Acute Dysnatremias - a dangerous and overlooked clinical problem.Scandinavian journal of trauma, resuscitation and emergency medicine · 2019Review
- Fatal acute hypernatremia resulting from a massive intake of seasoning soy sauce.Acute medicine & surgeryArticle
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Abstract
There are sporadic cases of fatalities from acutely eating salt. Yet, on social media, there are "challenges to" and examples of children and some adults acutely eating salt, and recently a charity advocated eating small amounts of salt to empathize with Syrian refugees. We performed a systematic review of fatalities from ingesting salt to assess if relatively moderate doses of salt could be fatal. In 27 reports, there were 35 fatalities documented (19 in adults and 16 in children). The lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (<5 teaspoons of salt) in two children, and less than 25 g sodium in four adults (<4 tablespoons of salt). The frequency of fatal ingestion of salt is not able to be discerned from our review. If investigation of the causes of hypernatremia in hospital records indicates salt overdose is relatively common, consideration could be given to placing warning labels on salt containers and shakers. Such warning labels can have the added advantage of reducing dietary salt consumption.
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