If a person eats poison......???

Question

If a person eats poison in how much time would it start reacting in the body?????

Good day!! ^_^

Answer 1

why are you asking this question? I hope nuthin's wrong..

certain poisons can damage the health instantly and permanently...poison can lead to many permanent disorders like paralysis...organ failures etc and ofcorse death...

yikes gurl...hope you aint thinkin of doin somethin really stupid !! plz lemme know...

Answer 2

That would depend on the poison, the concentration and possibly the method of entry. I know you said eat, but if you eat it with soda pop, soda gets things into the blood stream quicker than water...
PS I hope you aren't thinking of doing it. You are asking just for a story you're writing or some other similar reason? Don't even do it with a small concentration as a joke to get attention. Sometimes things go wrong and people die.

Answer 3

depend on the poison. Some react instansly, as soon as it touches the body. Some moderately, like we usually imagine. And some may take hours, days or even weeks!

Answer 4

Physiological actions

The action of poisons is generally described by the physiological or biochemical changes which they produce. For most poisons, a descriptive account can be given which indicates what organic system (for example, heart, kidney, liver, brain, and bone marrow) appears to be most critically involved and contributes most to seriously disordered body function or death. In many cases, however, organ effects are multiple, or functional derangements so generalized that a cause of death cannot be localized.

More precise understanding of the mechanism of poisons requires detailed knowledge of their action in chemical terms. Information of this kind is available for only a few compounds, and then in only fragmentary detail. Poisons that inhibit acetylcholinesterase have toxic actions traceable to a single blocked enzyme reaction, hydrolysis of normally secreted acetylcholine. Detailed understanding of the mechanism of chemical inhibition of cholinesterase is not complete, but allows some prediction of chemical structures likely to act as inhibitors. See also Acetylcholine.

Carbon monoxide toxicity is also partly understood in chemical terms, since formation of carboxyhemoglobin, a form incapable of oxygen transport, is sufficient to explain the anoxic features of toxicity.

Heavy metal poisoning in many cases is thought to involve inhibition of enzymes by formation of metal mercaptides with enzyme sulfhydryl groups, the unsubstituted form of which is necessary for enzyme action. This is a general reaction that may occur with a variety of sulfhydryl-containing enzymes in the body. Specific susceptible enzymes whose inhibition explains toxicity have not yet been well documented.

Metabolic antagonists active as poisons function by competitive blocking of normal metabolic reactions. Some antagonists may act directly as enzyme inhibitors, others may be enzymatically altered to form derivatives which are even more potent inhibitors at a later metabolic step. See also Enzyme inhibition.

Where poison mechanisms are relatively well understood, it has sometimes been possible to employ rationally selected antidotes.

Answer 5

if a person eats poison then obviously he/ she should be treated as early as possible. because it doesn't matter what poison he had taken matter is he had taken a product which can damage his/her body and also can take his/her life. so he should receive medication 1st.

Answer 6

depends on the poison

Answer 7

depends on the poison.

Answer 8

that depends on what the poison contains-if its strong or not

Answer 9

Why don't you try it and let us know;-)

It would depend on what poison and how much was "eaten"

Answer 10

no idea.......i haven't tried it