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Blog post:
Injury By Cold Soda!
Date:
this blog came out some time before year 2017. A facebook blog app
ceased to function, and MEDIC's back-up captured the content but not the date of
writing.
Hooray, found a moment to launch my first content post to
this Care-giving & Educational Stories Forum. Details below.
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Check out
this article in the Journal of the American Medical Association:
The web link above lets you read only the first page of the article. "Retrosternal"
pain = pain behind the sternum, and for "epigastric pain" location, see the part
of the diagram marked "Epigastrium" in the diagram on
this web page.
The rest of the article explains how with that 15-year-old male (and others),
swallowing a cold carbonated beverage can (and did!) tear the lining of the
patient's esophagus! Faster drinking seems to increase the risk.
Other causes of "esophageal perforation" include vomiting / retching, an
obstructing foreign body, and other ways to have a cold carbonated beverage such
as cold Alka-Seltzer. Seems to be quite rare, but wow, it can happen!
Treatment: the young man was admitted to the hospital, given nothing by
mouth for some days (I'm guessing he was hydrated and nourished intravenously),
healed up and gradually began eating again.
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