MIL 80yr yesterday she became unconscious and taken to hospital, sodium is 108. She.was unable to walk etc. Sodium started giving via IV.she is able to walk with the support of others now. But very tired. Since last few years, she was keep forgetting recent things, not getting enough sleep in the might, Recently she started behaving bit worser than before, eating more sugary products in the night etc., more angry, going out of the home, she has been under the medication for thyroid for many years.
Any suggestions please 🙏
What is also important to know is that REPLACING sodium by IV can be deadly as well if the hospital doesn't know underlying cause of sodium loss. If they replace sodium at the normal rate and level in someone who has idiopathic low sodium (say an alcoholic) then this replacement can be too much and too fast, causing a dangerous condition called Central Pontine Myelinolysis, in which the myelin sheath on nerves is destroyed. This can cause locked in syndrome, coma, death, permanent disability.
So it's important, on entering the ER, to let personnel KNOW anything you know about why there may be a change. ANYTHING is good information for them.
Hoping all is well now.
Have you spoken to her doctors at the hospital? What shape are her kidneys in?