"Bowel prep hyponatremia" - a state of acute water intoxication facilitated by low dietary solute intake: case report and literature review.

Apart from elevated AVP-levels, the amount and speed of fluid intake and concomitant low-solute intake constitute important risk factors in the development of clinically relevant hyponatremias in patients undergoing colonoscopies. Understanding that the cause of sodium imbalance in this scenario is multifactorial and complex is pivotal to recognizing and ideally preventing this complication, for which we propose the term "bowel prep hyponatremia".