You should never chew any medication, prescription or over-the-counter, unless told to by a physician. Melatonin is not simply a "dietary supplement"; it contains ingredients that can affect the body in ways that prescribed medications can affect the body.
It's important to understand that ALL meds including herbal remedies use parts and extracts of plants-- this is true for prescription meds also. Herbal remedies are not studied by the FDA, though, and all of the potential effects are not known.
Chewing a tablet (prescription or over the counter or herbal) makes the dose enter the bloodstream much faster than the manufacturer intended. While some meds may only make you nauseated or sleep longer or faster, other meds could create a bleeding stomach ulcer, could slow respirations to dangerous lows, could make a person so sedated they wouldn't awaken during vomiting (leading to aspiration pneumonia or death), or -- the med's fast release could lead to death.
you will die
No, you will not die by taking 80 mg's of melatonin. Many cancer patients are given that dosage.
You would get a headache and an upset stomach.
Dates that have been chewed by a babies mum is rubbed onto its gums
Last time I heard that happen, a girl got her lips chewed off! So don't try!
They would die. Not instantly if your lucky you might start off with oral cancer!
If your mouth isn't working right then your food will not get chewed up correctly.
Mechanical digestion starts when food is chewed physically by the teeth (grinding and tearing the food), and the remaining steps of digestion continue from then on.
It is about 1/250 chewed bones, but don't think it'll happen in 250 bones, could be thousands before you get one. As a drop from Mithril dragons, its not likely. There are no recorded videos of people getting a Dragon Full Helm as a drop from Mithril Dragons.
You'll probably turn gay
The food is chewed and mixed with saliva to begin digestion, and to help the food pass through the esophagus to the stomach. Saliva contains the enzyme amylase, also called ptyalin.
It's been over an hour since I chewed the non-chewable pepto-bismol tablet and nothing has happen other than my stomach ache has subsided.