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How much salt kills you when ate?

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Anonymous

9y ago
Updated: 8/21/2019

I found a human LD50 for salt of a whopping 12357mg/kg (that seems suspiciously high to me; that for rats is only about 3000mg/kg and for mice it's 4000mg/kg, but I'm not about to do my own study on the subject). If the human figure is actually correct, what it means is that an otherwise healthy 70 kg (154 pound) person who ate 865 grams (almost two pounds) of salt would have a 50/50 chance of dying.

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9y ago

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