What is done depends on the person and doctor so don't think anything because of what I experienced. Gatorade is a pretty safe bet regardless of lithium being the cause or not. I do think you should call med dude for a level. By now your level may be low enough to be fine even if it was high earlier but you need to know that for sure. If you've been that sick for hours your body has probably flushed things out, whether it was lithium or food poisoning but you need to be sure.


I had 3 toxicities because it helped me so much that going off it was hard. The first time we skipped a few days doses, put me on a fluid diet for 24 hours (pedialyte) and restarted gradually with more frequent monitoring for a while. The 2nd time I had atypical symptoms (hallucinations were what I noticed; the hospital pointed out I was way off balance and having other symptoms I was ignoring because they weren't like the first toxicity) and was hospitalized on fluids for a few days until I wasn't seeing birds flying into my face and could walk without support. We tried taking me off the lithium in there (I think more than once) but I benefited from it so I was on a really low dose. That time when I got toxic I was really, really sick and should have gone to the hospital but was too sick to get there without an ambulance, which my mother almost called. That time we stopped it completely and did labs a few times until it was out of my system. I did try it once more time out of desperation before going on clozapine and tolerated it fine but it didn't do any good then so I was only on it a few weeks but without toxicity.


Please let med dude know. Like I said your level is probably lower now because you've gotten it out of your system. It is unlikely you'd be hospitalized if med dude is anything like my pdoc but you need to be sure it's down.