Apparently a lethal dose is somewhere around 140g because it reacts with stomach acid to form gallium trichloride which is poisonous: https://yesdirt.com/is-ga

Apparently a lethal dose is somewhere around 140g because it reacts with stomach acid to form gallium trichloride which is poisonous: https://yesdirt.com/is-gallium-toxic/ https://yesdirt.com/is-gallium-toxic/ Some compounds of it may have medical uses, though: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898053/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898053/ That said, people have swallowed even crazier things, like when they used to use mercury (!!!) as a laxative: https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/following-lewis-and-clarks-trail-of-mercurial-laxatives https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/following-lewi...