My 87 year old mother has just been admitted to hospital with low sodium levels (this was only found out after blood tests at the hospital). Last week she kept falling and wouldn't settle at all. After 3 days the Nursing Home called a Doctor out and he thought she had a urine infection. I went to see her at the Care Home on Tuesday and she seemed delirious to me and very agitated, so insisted they called an ambulance. I'm glad I did because the Doctor at the Hospital said it can be very dangerous if left untreated. Has anyone else heard of this condition in the elderly. I was also wondering if this could happen again.
Keep us posted - this could be more common than we think.
Carol
I finally started a turf war; I went to the hospitalist from Internal Medicine who was called in to consult and said "Are you going to let them kill my mom because YOU'RE afraid to ask to have her transferred to YOUR service?". He grew some gonads and she was wheeled out of neuro an hour later.
I called 911 because I could not wake him up for 45 min. The soduim level
was dangerous. They are slowly trying to get the level up. It is now at 126.
so he is out of critical care. He has pulmonary fibrosis and was also getting over an infection. The care has been excellent but they seem
to be saying the low soduim was caused by the infection and the lungs.
I am very concerned when I am able to take him home how can I check
on his soduim. This did not seem like one of the reasons for low soduim.
Barbara
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