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I honestly had no idea about the dangers of something so seemingly banal as saline solution being administered too quickly. Your comment made me read into it and yes, the reality is quite surprising, and scary. The strange thing is that higher concentration solution isn't so much a problem as administration speed for a given volume.

In any case, thank you for helping at least this one person learn about a danger they never would have expected if they're ever in a hospital, and I sincerely hope your wife comes back to her self over time. From what I've gone on to read, a certain high percentage of sufferers of Central pontine myelinolysis (if that's what you're describing) do eventually recover for the most part over the course of months.



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