Severe symptomatic hyponatraemia secondary to bowel preparation.

BMJ Case Rep

Emergency Department, Roma Hospital, Roma, Queensland, Australia.

Published: October 2019

​A 62-year-old woman presented to a rural Australian hospital for a planned admission to receive bowel preparation 1 day prior to an upper endoscopy and colonoscopy. This admission was complicated by seizures and reduced levels of consciousness in the setting of hyponatraemia secondary to bowel preparation. Given the limited resources in a remote/rural Australian hospital, transfer to a tertiary level hospital was required for review and management of this rare complication of bowel preparation.

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