Help Regarding NaCl (cooking salt) overdose.

[Faejin]

Technically speaking, sodium overdose sounds easy if you can just keep it in, but I assume that it is not very effective in the most available sources such as NaCl (cooking salt).

In theory simply ingesting two hundred grams of NaCl or so should be a lethal dose so can someone explain to me why it is not a viable choice?

I apologise if this is not properly tagged as I found it unclear if it was a "method" or a "help" post.

 

[SeeminglyFine]

If im not wrong I think it takes a very long time and feels bad, and induces diarrhea, i ingested like 50/70gram, kinda felt like my mind is unpluggin, also read it can cause brain damage

 

[Interloper]

Anything can be lethal in large enough doses, the dosage makes the poison. The concern is the unpleasantness of it. Large paracetamol overdoses will kill you if not attended to, but it will be an absolutely horrible experience over the course of several days. I can't imagine cooking salt being very pleasant either.

 

[Faejin]

If im not wrong I think it takes a very long time and feels bad, and induces diarrhea, i ingested like 50/70gram, kinda felt like my mind is unpluggin, also read it can cause brain damage

Fair enough. From what I know it kills you by basically adding watermass to your brain which makes it expand and crush itself against your skull so it seem rather die or regret. Anyone will have passed out by that point, but your brain bursting at the seams does not seem too nice.

 

[FireWalkWithMe]

Cooking salt can certainly be lethal at over 1g per kg of bodyweight, the question is whether it is peaceful. I would venture probably not if you look at the manner of death that ensues.

 

[freelifexit]

Maybe it will be interesting. In this video described case of overdosing on soy sauce which is the same as overdosing on salt.