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Sodium Bicarbonate Abuse: A Case Report

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

S. M. J. Linford  and
H. D. James
S. M. J. Linford*
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, Devon PL21OEX
H. D. James
Affiliation:
Moorhaven Hospital, Ivybridge, Devon PL21OEX
*
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Sodium bicarbonate abuse is unusual, and rarely reported. A patient was extensively investigated at several hospitals for a recurrent hypokalaemic metabolic alkalosis; it transpired that she had been abusing sodium bicarbonate for 8 years and had gained hospital admission at will by taking large amounts. She also showed features of the Munchausen syndrome.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 149 , Issue 4 , October 1986 , pp. 502 - 503
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Copyright © 1986 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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