Expert: Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist - 12/24/2009

Question
First you should know I'm 14. 3 days ago I was out with my friends, and they asked me if I wanted to have something real cool that would give me fun trips. It was some kind of white salt and we mixed it with water and drank it. I can't even explain how horrible it tasted, something like salt and soap. After that they told me it's something called Tantum Rosa, and women use it to wash their vaginas or something I can't remember exactly. I had a really weird feeling in my stomach and after a bit more than an hour I started trembling and feeling very sick. I couldn't make the difference between what I said in my head and what I said out loud, I could feel bubbles in my stomach, and then I started seeing lights and shadows. After I got home I talked to a poster for like 2 hours, I could hear my friend's voice and talk with it and it was like my brain was thinking by itself. I couldn't sleep at all, when I closed my eyes I would see movies of wars. In the morning I was trembling really bad and I was so dizzy, I felt like puking but my stomach was empty and all I got out was that salt thing. I started drinking water and right after drinking it I peed it out filled with salt and soap bubbles. I think i drank like 5 l of water and ate nothing, then i started feeling better but I still couldn't sleep that night. In the morning I felt okay and I thought it was gone, but in the evening I started trembling again and feeling paranoid and scared and depressed. I was very cold, although people wore T shirts and i had a winter jacket on. I felt like I was tearing apart and I'm not myself anymore. I feel very stupid and retarded when I look back at what I was like before I took it. When I drank water I could feel it go down my throat and when it got into my stomach it got all bubbly. I could feel my stomach walls really hot and it hurt very bad. Now when I look at lights and then away, I still see it. My brain is really messed up and I'm really scared of what this might have caused. I can't tell my parents about it because they never understand me, they would just get very mad and lock me in my room and never let me see my friends again. And I can't see any doctor because they would tell my parents about it. I would be so grateful if you could help me get back together. I'm so scared I don't wanna get sick but I really don't know what I could do to make it better

Answer
Hi Roxy,

This goes to show that it is easy to poison or even kill a 14 year old boy with drugs. I can give you no advice other than you should tell your parents and cop the flack, or go to  doctor to make sure you are alright.

Come back in about two weeks and tell me how you feel.

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist
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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia.
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