• coldwind-shiningstars
    Earl Grey tea intoxication
    A 44-year-old man presented in May, 2001, with muscle cramps. He had no medical history of note, but volunteered the fact that he had been d
    The Lancet

    Re: blorbo from my research, here is my favorite ever case study. I'm obsessed with it.

    Summary:

    - Guy presents to neurology with muscle issues, very clearly has something going on but diagnostic tests are inconclusive

    - History is mostly unremarkable. Key word, mostly. He drinks four liters of plain Earl Grey tea per day. For context this is nearly twice the recommended daily fluid intake. All fluids, to be clear, not just tea. He only drinks tea tho

    - Bergamot is known to be phototoxic in high doses (reacts badly on your skin with sunlight)

    - APPARENTLY nobody previously has consumed enough of it for it to be widely known that it is also, apparently, mildly toxic to ingest in high doses

    - Guy starts drinking plain black tea again. Only 2 liters this time (he didn't have a medical reason to drink that much tea, he just liked it) and so now he's fully recovered

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    house md ass case

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      This is such an interesting case study
    19. coldwind-shiningstars posted this
      A 44-year-old man presented in May, 2001, with muscle cramps. He had no medical history