My friend is no longer suicidal. But last year when she was, she decided to take around 35 asprin. Shes only 15. The next day she told me about it and all that really happened was that she got a really bad stomach ache. No one even found out about it exept the few people she told. Not that I want her to die, I really don't. But how could her body have such a tolerence for that much asprin?
2007-02-11 07:54:49 · 7 answers · asked by Sarah 4 in Health ➔ Mental Health
Usually when taking too much aspirin - like your friend's case - people need to be taken to the hospital, where they usually give you something - i forgot what it's called, tar? - to counteract the damaging effects to your stomach and the rest of your body. Now that limit is different from person to person.
I think in your friend's case, she simply lucked out and got away with a stomach ache, which makes perfect sense. I would assume she's also managed to damage her stomach's lining pretty badly, but I just don't think what she took was enough to kill her - it rarely is with aspirin.
"The toxic dose of aspirin is generally considered greater than 150 mg per kg of body mass. Moderate toxicity occurs at doses up to 300 mg/kg, severe toxicity occurs between 300 to 500 mg/kg, and a potentially lethal dose is greater than 500 mg/kg.[12] This is the equivalent of many dozens of the common 325 mg tablets, depending on body weight. Note that children cannot tolerate as much aspirin per unit body weight as adults can, even when aspirin is indicated. Label-directions should be followed carefully."
Emphasize the "many dozens" part.
2007-02-11 08:07:32 · answer #1 · answered by anouk_zeina 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is a continuum of small steps leading to crazy . Depression comes from stress from your life when so many things are not as you expected them to be. Eventually the patient reaches the threshold called a nervous breakdown. The test for a true psychotic onset is what the doctors use in an exam. Tunnel vision occurs after the patient has been unable to make simple decisions. The language and logic crumble. Any fast social incidents cause the mind to overheat as it doesn't have logic anymore . The brain has had to make logic patches to keep the earth flat as the unbalanced chemicals allowed the lower brain to take over thinking that is only for the upper brain to do. That means the auto-brain can start to run your body and mind. This is an animal state. The onset is very clear to other people but not the patient. I heard of one dose of 100 aspirin but she was pumped later. Suicide is group murder. There is an insult unto death. Please be nicer.
2007-02-11 16:31:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Maybe that wasn't the first time she did that. She could have steadily increased the number of pills she took at a time. She could have built up a tolerance, and then, when she tried to end it and take 35 pills at a time, her body could have built up a tolerance.
2007-02-11 17:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by Dea. 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
15 is not that many. if she took the whole bottle the outcome may have been different and you should have and still should tell someone.maybe next time she will succeed
2007-02-11 16:14:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I took a lot more than that once when I was in 9th grade and all it did was make me sicker than a dog.
2007-02-11 20:43:04 · answer #5 · answered by SheRa 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yeah, or your friend is lying.
2007-02-11 16:08:26 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ur friend is bluffing.......
2007-02-11 16:04:06 · answer #7 · answered by devil 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋