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But potassium salt is just not that risky. I bet Tylenol or Ibuprofen are riskier. I doubt it. Potassium chloride is the active ingredient in lethal injections

But potassium salt is just not that risky. I bet Tylenol or Ibuprofen are riskier. I doubt it. Potassium chloride is the active ingredient in lethal injections, too much and it will stop your heart.

Scoundreller 4y ago
Too much $anything, and it will stop your $something you need to live. Having said that, most by mouth potassium supplements are delayed release so you don’t get it all at once (and absorption already slows things down a lot).
toad_master 4y ago
Too much tylenol will destroy your liver. The dose makes the poison. I've been prescribed potassium chloride tablets before.
fbdab103 4y ago
Intravenous potassium is significantly more hazardous than orally consumed. Wikipedia lists the LD50 of oral potassium at 2.6 g/kg. Meaning your standard 70kg dude would have to eat 182 grams (6.4 oz Freedom Units) to hit that limit. Which would be just beyond horrible to attempt to consume that in a sitting.
scythe 4y ago
Potassium chloride is used in lethal injections to the tune of 75 mg/kg. For a typical adult, that's an injection of 4-6 grams all at once. You could never eat that much in a sitting: it would taste horrible and probably cause immediate vomiting, and still it's not so readily absorbed through the gut anyway. See: https://research.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SOP-KCl.pdf https://research.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SOP-KC...
- yywwbbn 4y ago
  You could easily eat 4-6 grams (if you wanted to obviously). But absorption us much lower and slower you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal
  - hnfong 4y ago
    > you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal Apparently if you ingest ~25grams of _table salt_ your life might be at risk. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537768/ I'd imagine Potassium might be a bit more toxic in lesser doses.

But potassium salt is just not that risky. I bet Tylenol or Ibuprofen are riskier. I doubt it. Potassium chloride is the active ingredient in lethal injections, too much and it will stop your heart.

Scoundreller 4y ago

Too much $anything, and it will stop your $something you need to live. Having said that, most by mouth potassium supplements are delayed release so you don’t get it all at once (and absorption already slows things down a lot).

toad_master 4y ago

Too much tylenol will destroy your liver. The dose makes the poison. I've been prescribed potassium chloride tablets before.

fbdab103 4y ago

Intravenous potassium is significantly more hazardous than orally consumed. Wikipedia lists the LD50 of oral potassium at 2.6 g/kg. Meaning your standard 70kg dude would have to eat 182 grams (6.4 oz Freedom Units) to hit that limit. Which would be just beyond horrible to attempt to consume that in a sitting.

scythe 4y ago

Potassium chloride is used in lethal injections to the tune of 75 mg/kg. For a typical adult, that's an injection of 4-6 grams all at once. You could never eat that much in a sitting: it would taste horrible and probably cause immediate vomiting, and still it's not so readily absorbed through the gut anyway. See: https://research.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SOP-KCl.pdf https://research.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SOP-KC...

yywwbbn 4y ago
You could easily eat 4-6 grams (if you wanted to obviously). But absorption us much lower and slower you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal
- hnfong 4y ago
  > you probably need over hundred grams or so to reach levels that would be lethal Apparently if you ingest ~25grams of _table salt_ your life might be at risk. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537768/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5537768/ I'd imagine Potassium might be a bit more toxic in lesser doses.