What discomfort comes with sodium NITRATE and is it painless? I'm curious as to if the symptoms are mild or severe. Also if there is any over the counter drugs to help with the symptoms
I believe sodium nitrate is an oxidising agent that works in a similar way to sodium nitrite, just far less potent, so the effects would be much the same.
A google search gives the LD50 in rats at
1267 mg/kg, and you'd be wanting to take several times that amount
. At the very least, I think it'd be quite difficult to ingest that amount of salt without vomiting it all up repeatedly. However, I may be wrong, and it'd be pretty cool if so- nitrate is much easier to obtain.
But yes, to answer your question, probably essentially the same symptoms as nitrite. May range from none at all, to discomfort such as nausea and bad headaches; at the very least, no severe pain.
Do you mean nitrite? Sodium nitrate isn't lethal
Nitrate is in fact lethal, but only in huge doses, far more than nitrite. I don't think a person could ingest that much of a salt