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Nicoletta Lanese

Man sought diet advice from ChatGPT and ended up with 'bromide intoxication'

A photo of a phone screen with the ChatGPT logo on it.

A man consulted ChatGPT prior to changing his diet. Three months later, after consistently sticking with that dietary change, he ended up in the emergency department with concerning new psychiatric symptoms, including paranoia and hallucinations.

It turned out that the 60-year-old had bromism, a syndrome brought about by chronic overexposure to the chemical compound bromide or its close cousin bromine. In this case, the man had been consuming sodium bromide that he had purchased online.

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