Salt doesn’t do much to the human body.
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amelia@feddit.de 5 months ago
These numbers look very questionable. Twice as much salt as alcohol to kill someone? I’m sorry but I call bullshit.
Aux@lemmy.world 5 months ago
amelia@feddit.de 4 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 4 months ago
No, it doesn’t. Wikipedia doesn’t cite any credible source for that number, instead it links to a book, which doesn’t cite anything.
LD50 for sodium chloride is 3g/kg. It is part of MSDS and is based on an actual scientific study.
It’s time to update Wiki.
Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 months ago
Why would salt be more lethal than alcohol? You have a lot of water to displace to deal with it, and you can drink yet more water to do so as it will take a while to effect you.
Alcohol is just poison and the act of processing it does damage. Drinking water to dilute it is less effective as it kills pretty fast.
amelia@feddit.de 4 months ago
According to Wikipedia, the lethal dose of table salt is 0.5-1g/kg, not 10 as stated in the post.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_poisoning
Umbrias@beehaw.org 4 months ago
Across what dose period between the two? A lethal bolus dose is smaller than a lethal two week evenly distributed dose.