Is It Easy to Get Sodium Poisoning
Nutrients. 2017 Jul; 9(7): 648.
A Systematic Review of Fatalities Related to Acute Ingestion of Salt. A Need for Warning Labels?
Norm R. C. Campbell
1Department of Medicine, Physiology and Pharmacology and Community Health Sciences, O'Brien Institute for Public Health and Libin Cardiovascular Institute of Alberta, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Canada
Emma J. Train
2The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 4Z6, Canada; moc.liamg@niartjamme
Received 2017 Jun 7; Accepted 2017 Jun 20.
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.
Keywords: salt, sodium, overdose, warning labels, hypertension, hypernatremia
1. Introduction
Dietary risks are estimated to be the leading risk for death and disability globally [1]. Among the dietary risks, high intake of dietary sodium is the leading risk, being attributed to over 4 million deaths and 83 million disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) in 2015 [1]. The deaths and disability are considered to be largely related to hypertension and dietary salt intake promoting gastric cancer [1].
Much less attention has been given to the acute toxic effects of dietary salt. Isolated cases of fatalities caused by the acute ingestion of table salt have been reported [2]. These isolated reports were concerning when a Canadian campaign was initiated in August of 2016 to encourage people to eat small quantities of table salt to empathize with the suffering of refugees in Syria [3]. The #Salt4Syria marketing campaign website shows children eating salt out of spoons and pictures of an overflowing spoonful of salt. The campaign encourages children to record and share their salt consumption videos and nominate others to do the same. Further, a brief investigation of social media indicates several children and adults are acutely ingesting salt and challenging others to do so (a google video search of "eat salt challenge" resulted in 313,000 uploaded videos, 20 April 2017). A systematic review of fatalities occurring from acute ingestion of salt was conducted, in part, to assess the potential risk of advocating the acute ingestion of salt. The intent was to assess whether relatively modest ingestion of salt might cause fatalities.
2. Materials and Methods
We systematically searched for all studies that reported fatalities from ingesting salt (sodium chloride). The search strategy included Medline, Embase, Cochrane Register of Control Trials, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews using the terms from Table 1 on 23 January 2017 with no time restrictions. NRCC searched all the titles and abstracts identified by the searches, and articles that were identified as potentially eligible were obtained for full review. The articles were reviewed by NRCC. The reference lists of the included studies and reviews were hand-searched for additional studies. Letters to editors and abstracts were included.
Table 1
Literature search terms to identify potential fatalities related to salt ingestion.
| 1. | ((toxic* or intoxic* or overdos*) adj5 salt).mp |
| 2. | ((toxic* or intoxic* or overdos*) adj5 Na).mp |
| 3. | ((toxic* or intoxic* or overdos*) adj5 sodium).mp |
| 4. | ((salt* or Na or sodium) adj5 overdos*).mp |
| 5. | hypernatremia.mp |
| 6. | hypernatremia/ |
| 7. | 1 or 2 or 3 or 4 or 5 or 6 |
| 8. | ((dietar* or intake* or food* or consumption or consume* or ingest*) adj5 sodium).mp |
| 9. | ((dietar* or intake* or food* or consumption or consume* or ingest*) adj5 salt).mp |
| 10. | ((dietar* or intake* or food* or consumption or consume* or ingest*) adj5 Na).mp |
| 11. | 8 or 9 or 10 |
| 12. | 7 and 11 |
| 13. | Limit 12 to humans |
Articles were included if there was oral ingestion of salt (sodium chloride) that resulted in a fatal outcome. Fatalities related to gastric lavage with salt were included but fatalities related to intravenous and rectal administration of salt and to absorption of salt through the skin (burn treatment) were excluded. There were no exclusion criteria based on language.
Data from manuscripts was extracted by EJT and NRCC, including the first author, year of publication, country where the report originated, location, and the patients' age, gender, weight (kg), category of ingestion (e.g., accidental by patient, intentional by patient (suicide), therapeutic adverse outcome from lavage), estimated dose of salt/sodium ingested, presence of known chronic disease, presence of known prior renal dysfunction, co-ingestion of other toxins, co-ingestion of drugs that impact renal excretion of sodium (e.g., diuretic), mental illness, acute illness, and highest recorded serum sodium level. The fatalities were categorized by age (<5, 5–10, >10 to 18 and >18 years). Where the amount of salt ingested was provided in a range, this was recorded.
Salt and sodium ingestion units were converted to sodium in grams using the conversions: 1 mmol sodium = 1 mEq sodium = 23 mg sodium, and 1 g sodium = 2.54 g salt (NaCl). Where salt ingestion was estimated by table, dessert, or teaspoons, the ingested salt was estimated to be 17.06 g (sodium 6.8 g), 11.4 g (sodium 4.5 g), and 5.7 g (sodium 2.28 g), respectively. Where it was indicated that the spoon was overfilled or "large", 50% more salt was estimated to have been ingested. When estimates were provided both as a weight (e.g., 60 g salt) and a spoon measurement (2 tablespoons), both are indicated as a range. When sodium bicarbonate was co-administered with sodium chloride, the total sodium dose ingested was estimated.
3. Results
The literature search yielded 460 articles (Figure 1) of which 25 articles were selected for full-text review following a review of the title and abstract. Exclusions included 13 articles that did not report fatality from salt ingestion, and one article was a review without original cases reported. Eleven of the included articles reported one or more fatalities from acute ingestion of salt. Review of abstract and titles of the citations in the selected articles obtained in the literature search yielded an additional 24 articles for full text review. Of the 24, 17 contained reports of fatalities from ingesting salt. Thus, 27 manuscripts reporting fatality from ingesting dietary salt were obtained. There were 35 fatalities reported, 19 in adults [2,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19] and 16 in children [6,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29]. The fatalities were categorized by age (Table 2 and Table 3). There were no fatalities reported in the age category 10–18 years. Nearly all the reported cases had multiple missing values in the data extraction table with, for example, few reporting weights.
Table 2
Fatal ingestion of salt in adults.
| First Author Year of Publication | Age (Years) | Gender | Explanation of Overdose | Estimated Dose Ingested Sodium (g) * | Highest Reported Blood Level of Sodium (mmol/L) ** | Co-Ingestion of Other Potential Toxins | Chronic Illness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Engjom 2008 [4] | 83 | Female | Mistaken for sugar | 13.6–20.4 g | 223 | None stated | Hypertension, dementia |
| Raya 1992 [5] | 36 | Female | Exorcism ritual | 273 g | 246 | Sodium bicarbonate * | None stated |
| Turk 2005 [6] | 34 | Female | Health care professional administered emetic | 80 g | 196 | None stated | "Psychomotor retardation" |
| 69 | Male | Health care professional administered emetic | 39.4–81.6 g | 175 | Single table of unprescribed "neuroleptic" | Schizophrenia | |
| Moder 1990 [2] | 41 | Male | Mistaken for sugar | 27.1–34.8 g | 209 | None stated | Downs Syndrome, lymphoma, hepatitis B, seizures |
| Johnston 1977 [7] | 45 | Female | Mistaken for sugar | 30.6–40.8 g | 190 | None stated | Prader-Willi Syndrome, hypertension obesity, impaired glucose tolerance |
| Bacarreza 2008 [8] | 33 | Female | Not known | 50 g | 203 | None stated | Alcohol abuse |
| Ofran 2004 [9] | 20 | Female | Exorcism ritual | <400 g | 255 | None stated | Depression |
| Robertson 1971 [10] | 23 | Female | Emetic | Not stated | 214 | Chlordiazepoxide overdose | None stated |
| Hey 1982 [11] | 56 | Female | Emetic | 27.2–47.2 g | 214 | "trivial" overdose | Not stated |
| Hedouin 1999 [12] | 19 | Female | Exorcism ritual | Not stated | 153 | None stated | Hydrocephalus, seizures |
| Bird 1974 [13] | 35 | Female | Emetic | 20.4 g | 200 | "Overdose" | "Psychiatric patient" |
| Ward 1963 [14] | 74 | Male | Emetic | 13.6–24.4 g | 174 | Accidental overdose of imipramine and perphenazine | "Mild depression" |
| Gresham 1982 [15] | 48 | Female | Emetic | 6.8–10.2 g | 166 | "Extra dose" of chlorpromazine | Past leucotomy, depression |
| Laurence 1969 [16] | 35 | Female | Emetic | 69 g | 184 | Overdose thioridazine | None stated |
| Goodbody 1975 [17] | 35 | Female | Emetic and lavage | >17.7 g | 226 *** | "Minor" overdose sodium amytal | None stated |
| 44 | Female | Emetic | Not stated | 151 | Overdose sodium amytal | None stated | |
| Winter 1974 [18] | 21 | Female | Emetic and lavage | 118–236 g | 227 | Amitriptyline, imipramine, chlorpromazine, diazepam and nitrazepam overdose | Psychiatric disease |
| Roberts 1974 [19] | 26 | Female | Emetic | 27–60 g | 172 | Salicylate overdose | Depression |
Table 3
Fatal ingestion of salt in children aged 10 years and under.
| First Author, Year of Publication | Age (Years) (Months) (Weeks) (Days) | Gender | Explanation of Overdose | Estimated Dose Ingested Sodium (g) * | Highest Reported Serum Level of Sodium (mmol/L) ** | Co-Ingestion of Other Potential Toxins | Chronic Illness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dockery 1992 [21] | 5 years | Female | Parental administration | 11.4 g | 220 | None stated | "Poor growth" |
| Turk 2005 [6] | 4 years | Female | Emesis | Not stated | 245 | None stated | Low body weight |
| Martos Sanchez 2000 [22] | 20 months | Female | Mistaken for sugar | 9.12 g | 195 | None stated | None stated |
| 7 months | Female | Accidental | 5.03 g | 178 | None stated | None stated | |
| Scott 1947 [23] | 2 years | Male | Mistaken for sugar | <7 g | Not stated | None stated | Gastrointestinal strictures |
| Barer 1973 [24] | 3 years | Male | Emetic and lavage | Not stated | 188 | Aspirin overdose | None stated |
| Streat 1982 [25] | 2 years | Female | Emetic | Not stated | 204 | Pheniramine overdose | None stated |
| Finberg 1963 [26] | 7 days | Male | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | Not stated | None stated | Prematurity |
| 2 months | Female | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | Not stated | None stated | Congenital neuroblastoma | |
| 3 weeks | Male | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | Not stated | None stated | None stated | |
| 5 days | Female | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | Not stated | None stated | None stated | |
| 2 days | Female | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | Not stated | None stated | None stated | |
| 1 day | Female | Mistaken for sugar | Not stated | 244 | None stated | None stated | |
| Rogers 1976 [27] | 1 year | Female | Parental administration | Not stated | 200 | None stated | Repeated abscesses |
| Meadow 1993 [28] *** | 1.5–9 months | Half were female | Parental administration | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated | Not stated |
| Smith 1990 [29] | 26 months | Not stated | Emetic for minor overdose | 6.8–13.6 g | 217 | None stated | None stated |
Adults (age >18): There were 19 fatalities reported in 16 females and 3 males (average age 40.6, standard deviation (s.d.) 17.9 years, range 19–83) (Table 2). In twelve fatalities, the salt was administered as an emetic, in four the salt was administered as part of an exorcism ritual, in three ingestion was inadvertently mistaking salt for sugar, and in one the reason for ingestion was unknown. The average lower and average higher estimated doses of sodium ingested was 60 and 118 g, respectively. The ingested doses in individuals were estimated to range from 6 g to 400 g. In four fatalities, the estimated sodium dose ingested was under 25 g.
In two of the fatalities, sodium bicarbonate was co-ingested with salt (sodium chloride). In the cases where salt was given as an emetic, it was for overdoses with several of the overdoses reported as minor. Although many of the fatalities had histories of prior psychiatric disease, few had chronic medical disease and none were previously known to have renal impairment. The average maximum blood/serum sodium level recorded was 205.51 (s.d. 28.19) mmol/L, with the highest being 255 mmol/L and the lowest 151 mmol/L.
Adolescents (age 10–18 years): There were no reported fatal cases in this age range.
Children (age 5–10 years): There was one reported fatality (female age 5) (Table 3). The dose of sodium ingested was estimated to be a minimum of five teaspoons of table salt given by the parents (approximately 11.4 grams of sodium). The patient had a record of poor growth but was otherwise healthy and had a serum sodium level of 220 mmol/L after ingestion.
Children (age <5 years): There were 15 reported fatalities overall and 13 fatalities that reported some individual details (Table 3). The ages ranged from 1 day to 4 years of age. In eight of the fatalities, salt was mistaken for sugar, with six occurring in a single incident at a hospital. The salt was reported to be administered by parents in many of the remaining fatalities with intent to injure, and as an emetic in four cases. In one fatality, there was a mistake made in the amount of salt added in making a rehydration formula. Most of the doses of sodium ingested were not known, with reported estimates ranging from less than 7 g to 13 g. Similarly, most serum sodium levels were not reported, but reported levels ranged from 178 to 245 mmol/L.
4. Discussion
Relatively modest doses of sodium have been reported to cause fatality. In two children, the lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (less than five teaspoons of salt) and the lethal dose was estimated to be less than 25 g sodium in four adults (less than four tablespoons of salt). The mechanism of salt ingestion causing death is believed to be related to hypernatremia with the serum sodium levels in reported fatalities ranging from 175 to 255 mmol/L. Ingestion of as little as two tablespoons of salt has been reported to increase serum sodium levels by as much as 30 mmol/L with the potential to cause severe irreversible neurological damage [7,9]. Many of the fatalities were related to the administration of salt therapeutically as an emetic agent, where toxicity may have been, in part, related to co-ingested drugs. Nevertheless, several deaths occurred by accidental ingestion of salt, most where salt was mistaken for sugar without any other co-ingested toxins. While this review found that modest amounts of sodium have been reported to be associated with death, the review design and available information do not allow any estimates of the usual amount of ingested sodium that might be lethal (e.g., lethal dose 50 (LD50); the dose that is lethal in 50% of exposed animals). The media LD50 in rats is 3 g/kg for ingestion over 4 h [30]. Further, the reported deaths and serious illness from using salt as an emetic agent resulted in strong recommendations to no longer use salt for that indication [10]. Historically it has been reported that wealthy Chinese committed suicide by ingesting large amounts of salt [6].
The lower amounts of sodium ingested that were associated with death in this systematic review are only four-fold higher than daily intake levels consumed by the average person in Beijing and less than twice as high as the upper range of daily consumption by individual Chinese [31,32]. Ingestion of sodium in forms that are rapidly consumed and absorbed (e.g., dissolved in water) may acutely overwhelm the ability to excrete sodium resulting in rapidly increasing extracellular (and specifically serum) sodium levels. Humans evolved on much lower amounts of sodium than are currently ingested (0.1 to 1 g sodium/day), and hence we may not have developed the capacity to rapidly excrete large amounts of sodium that are acutely ingested [33,34]. Excretion is by the kidneys, sweating, and gastrointestinal tract [33]. About 90% of ingested sodium is excreted by the kidneys [33]; hence, it is reasonable to hypothesize that individuals with less capacity to excrete sodium (i.e., renal impairment) might be particularly susceptible to toxic effects ingested sodium. In the systematic review, there were no cases where renal impairment was identified before the overdose, although several persons were noted to have a modest elevation in serum creatinine (≤140 µmol/L) during the acute illness following sodium ingestion [2,4,5,9]. A wide variation in ability to excrete sodium has been observed in studies examining genetic variation in the blood pressure increasing effects of dietary sodium [35]. Hence, through genetic variation in renal excretion of sodium, some "salt-sensitive" individuals may be predisposed to, and some "salt-resistant" individuals protected from, the adverse effects of acute sodium ingestion. The sodium content in food is likely to be lower and more slowly absorbed than the ingestion of salt itself or in solutions, hence these findings are not likely to inform the discussion on salt as generally regarded as safe (GRAS) additives which has been ongoing in the United States [36]. Nevertheless, very severe hypernatremia has been reported from drinking food condiments high in sodium (e.g., soya sauce) [37].
There are several weaknesses to this systematic review. For many if not most of the fatalities, the ingested dose of salt could only be estimated based on incomplete information. In particular, the estimated dose of sodium of 6 g causing a fatality in an adult seems implausible. We have also noted that most reports gave incomplete information on the patients, including such important information as weight that could have allowed the doses of salt ingested to be expressed per kg of body weight. The review does not provide useful information on how frequent fatal salt ingestion occurs. Further, the levels of hypernatremia reported are likely underestimates of the true peak blood sodium levels, as in several of the fatalities, blood levels of sodium were not assessed at presentation nor were they closely monitored. Lastly, many of the manuscripts were found by hand-searching reference lists as opposed to the primary literature searches. Factors which may have reduced the sensitivity of the literature searches may include the older age of many publications, the relatively low prominence of several of the journals, and that several of the articles were "letters" to editors rather than full research publications.
If severe hypernatremia is relatively common with doses of salt ingestion as low as reported in this review, it may speak to the need to place warning labels on salt shakers and containers. Several of the reported cases came from a review of single-centre case reviews, suggesting that a systematic examination of patients presenting with hypernatremia may find a higher frequency of fatal sodium overdoses than this systematic review of published literature indicates [6,22,26]. Warning labels could increase the awareness of the acute dangers of salt and reduce the number of people ingesting salt as part of a challenge or ritual and may discourage organizations from using salt ingestion in awareness campaigns. A search on social media finds many recent examples of mostly children and some adults challenging themselves or others to eat amounts of salt that are in the range of the fatalities reported in this systematic review (google search "eat salt challenge", 10 April 2017). An added benefit of warning labels on salt containers relates to evidence that it may reduce salt intake [38,39,40].
5. Conclusions
This systematic review finds doses of salt that have been reported to cause fatalities are not exceptionally high and accidently replacing sugar with salt can cause fatalities. The prevalence of salt overdose is uncertain, but if it is relatively common as suggested on social media, warning labels on salt and high-salt products (e.g., soya sauce) could be one mechanism considered to reduce the use of salt in rituals and salt challenges.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge Helen Lee Robertson, MLIS Liaison Librarian, Clinical Medicine at the University of Calgary for providing advice on the literature search strategy and Aaron Lucko conducted the literature search.
Author Contributions
N.R.C.C. reviewed the literature search to select relevant articles, performed data extraction and drafted the manuscript. E.J.T. reviewed the data extraction and revised the manuscript.
Conflicts of Interest
N.R.C.C. is a paid consultant to the Novartis Foundation to support their program to improve hypertension control in low to middle income countries which includes travel support for site visits and a contract to develop a survey. N.R.C.C. has also agree to provide paid consultative advice on accurate blood pressure assessment to Midway Corporation and is an unpaid member of World Action on Salt and Health (WASH); E.J.T. has no funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. E.J.T. is an unpaid volunteer board director of Open Arms Patient Advocacy Society and is a self-employed writer and administrator of the Anthony Train Corp.
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