Discussion Salt and water?

[termination2434]

I was sitting here scrolling through TikTok and suddenly I've been getting videos saying something along the lines of "All it takes is 3 scoops of salt and some water." My feed is a lot of videos from other people who may be in the same boat as some of us, so I'm sure I don't need to spell out what the video is referencing. But before today, I had never even heard of this method. Has anybody done their research on it? Is it reliable? Is it painless? How long does it take to be effective? I'm not sure exactly how to find more info on it, so I'm hoping somebody here has already done that. Peace for everyone, however you may find it.

 

[EDDIESTERS]

completely useless unless you are stuck in the desert without water.

 

[Off_Switch]

It would have to be a large amount of one or the other, to either achieve hypernatremia or hyponatremia. Like maybe 2 or 3 gallons of water or a tuna can full of salt, depending on your body weight. Painless? Far from.

 

[abstractcat7]

You wouldn't be able to eat enough salt to do it (even a few teaspoons), and if you did, you would suffer major organ failure and it would be a very long, drawn out, and painful experience. That is one of the worst ways to go I could probably think of. If you ate a dangerous amount of salt attempting this, but were unable to eat enough (which you will not be able to) you would experience all of this, you wouldn't die, and you'd probably call for help because of how bad it would be and then you have to deal with that and possibly trying to explain what happened. Do not attempt.

 

[name2come]

You can absolutely die from salt poisoning, but it is so much more salt than you realize. Like, you can die from water poisoning, too, but that doesn't mean it's easy. And for both salt and water, the overdose is a slow and excruciatingly painful death involving organ failure. So, very painful, very slow, very hard to be certain of lethality, oh and treatment is pretty straightforward if you are found before your body shuts down. Though some damage may be permanent. I once harbored fantasies of salt poisoning, too, but it's just so much more salt than you are prepared for. People who accidentally do this usually consumed inhuman quantities of soy sauce or were drinking ocean water for some reason. It's not reasonably achievable.