{"id":8671,"date":"2025-02-05T10:00:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T16:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=8671"},"modified":"2025-02-05T13:16:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T19:16:38","slug":"diagnostic-dilemma-a-man-ended-up-in-the-er-after-drinking-6-gallons-of-milk-in-2-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/02\/05\/diagnostic-dilemma-a-man-ended-up-in-the-er-after-drinking-6-gallons-of-milk-in-2-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnostic dilemma: A man ended up in the ER after drinking 6 gallons of milk in 2 days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/food-diet\/diagnostic-dilemma-a-man-ended-up-in-the-er-after-drinking-6-gallons-of-milk-in-2-days\">Live Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A man experiencing excessive thirst drank lots of milk, with dangerous consequences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The patient:\u00a0<\/strong>A 54-year-old man in Rotterdam, Netherlands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The symptoms:&nbsp;<\/strong>The patient visited the emergency room after experiencing shortness of breath, as well as excessive sweating, urination and thirst, for eight days. His abdomen was swollen and distended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What happened next:\u00a0<\/strong>Two days before being admitted to the ER, the man had visited his regular doctor, who revealed that the patient had elevated\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/44498-what-is-normal-blood-sugar.html\"><u>blood sugar<\/u><\/a>\u00a0in a range hinting at new-onset diabetes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/health\/food-diet\/diagnostic-dilemma-a-man-ended-up-in-the-er-after-drinking-6-gallons-of-milk-in-2-days\">Continue reading<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scirp.org\/journal\/paperinformation?paperid=19410\">Link International Journal of Clinical Medicine<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live Science A man experiencing excessive thirst drank lots of milk, with dangerous consequences. The patient:\u00a0A 54-year-old man in Rotterdam, Netherlands The symptoms:&nbsp;The patient visited the emergency room after experiencing shortness of breath, as well as excessive sweating, urination and thirst, for eight days. His abdomen was swollen and distended. What happened next:\u00a0Two days before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-05-at-10.57.02.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8673,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8671\/revisions\/8673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}