How a man’s liquorice habit may have cost him his life
In the weeks before his death the man switched from bags of fruit-flavoured candy to liquorice candy, doctors report
A man’s liquorice consumption may have cost him his life, according to US doctors.
The 54-year-old had a long history of poor diet, consisting primarily of a couple of bags of candy daily, which he changed to liquorice in the weeks prior to his death.
The one to two daily bags of candy caused pseudohyperaldosteronism with dangerously low potassium levels.
This likely underlayed the man’s ventricular arrhythmia and subsequent cardiac arrest, they wrote in the New England Journal of Medicine.
