A 19-year-old boy went into a coma and almost died after drinking a quart of soy sauce, Fox News reported.

The young man was at a frat party at the University of Virginia and is the first known person to deliberately overdose on soy sauce. He reportedly did it after friends dared him to. He was rushed to the hospital after he started foaming at the mouth and convulsing.

The case was reported by the doctors who treated him and published the incident in the June 4 edition of the Journal of Emergency Medicine.

Hypernatremia is a condition in which the bloodstream has too much salt and is usually found in people who have a big appetite for soy sauce, said Dr. David J. Carlberg, who treated the boy at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington D.C.

His friends brought him to the emergency room because he began having seizures and he was in a coma by the time he got to Carlberg. The teenager was given anti-seizure medication upon arrival.

"He didn't respond to any of the stimuli that we gave him," Carlberg told FoodWorldNews.com. "He had some clonus, which is just elevated reflexes. It's a sign that basically the nervous system wasn't working very well."

The team of doctors pumped the salt out of his system through a nasal tube administering a water and sugar dextrose solution. They pumped 1.5 gallons of sugar water through the tube.

After five hours in the ER, the teen's sodium level returned to normal and three days later, he awoke from his coma.

"We were more aggressive than had been reported before in terms of bringing his sodium back down to a safer range," Carlberg told WorldFoodNews.com.

He said pumping salt out of the bloodstream had produced poor results in the past, adding that the more aggressive approach could be what saved the student's life. Doctors said in the report that part of his brain showed lasting effects of the seizures days after the incident, but a month afterwards, he was back at school with no signs of the overdose.