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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
by 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 agoYou 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.