35g of salt can be a lethal dose for a human of about 70kg, so no one’s going to last too long on this diet.
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rumschlumpel@feddit.org 1 day agoYou won’t die immediately, but there’s no way that consuming 35g salt/day won’t lead to severe health issues down the line …
stray@pawb.social 22 hours ago
rumschlumpel@feddit.org 21 hours ago
LD50 for a human of 70kg is 210g (3g salt per kg of human), so it seems rather unlikely that it will be lethal short-term (though always possible). It mostly becomes lethal when you don’t have any water that’s actually hydrating.
stray@pawb.social 21 hours ago
I think you may be thinking of the LD50 for rats. People have died from much less than 3g/kg.
The lethal dose was estimated to be less than 10 g of sodium (<5 teaspoons of salt) in two children, and less than 25 g sodium in four adults (<4 tablespoons of salt).
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5537768/
An acute toxicity from excess sodium intake with the possibility of fatal outcome has been reported in relation to the ingestion of huge amounts of sodium, such as 0.5–1 g of salt/kg body weight.
RedSnt@feddit.dk 22 hours ago
Yeah, you’re right, it was some really shotty early morning math, I was thinking 100 ml not a whole liter.
stray@pawb.social 21 hours ago
The outcome of your typo ended up being really interesting though!