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| Date : 7/23/2008 |
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Hour : 12:11:11 PM |
| Resource : BBC Health News |
| Summery : A woman has been awarded more than £800,000 after she suffered permanent brain damage while on a detox diet.
The High Court heard Dawn Page, 52, began vomiting uncontrollably after starting The Amazing Hydration Diet. |
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Mrs Page, from Wiltshire, later had an epileptic fit which damaged her memory, speech and concentration.
Her nutritionist Barbara Nash has denied any wrongdoing and the High Court agreed to the settlement without mention of liability.
The court heard Mrs Page, from Faringdon, near Swindon, claimed Mrs Nash told her to drink large amounts of water and reduce her salt intake when she started the diet in October 2001.
She told the High Court when she started vomiting Mrs Nash told her it was a normal part of the detoxification process.
Less than a week into the regime, mother-of-two Mrs Page had to be taken to Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon after suffering a severe epileptic fit. Doctors diagnosed low salt levels in her body.
She has been left with "cognitive deficit" which she says has forced her to give up work as a conference organiser.
*** Read more at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7520756.stm
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