How long does it take to die from an asirin overdose? and is it a horrific death?
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It's quite hard to die from aspirin overdose. According to the CAS sheet, you'd have to ingest at least a hundred tablets of extra strength aspirin if you weighed 70KG to possibly die half the time (the LD50).. however, this is a difficult thing to do since your body will force copious, horrible vomiting once the stomach starts to absorb about a quarter of that dose. Once you do survive, bathed in your own puke and fully conscious, you will become completely deaf for weeks, you will vomit blood and cough up blood from your lungs because of the delayed blood clotting effect, you'll be hideously nauseous and dizzy due to blood thinning and your kidneys will probably be permanently damaged. Your stomach lining will be perforated and you'll be unable to eat for days or weeks. It would be an horrific death, but most likely it would be an horrific recovery.
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I recently took an aspirin overdose of just 20 tablets. It wasn't fatal but it caused a horrible amount of pain and damage to my stomach and liver because I didn't go to the hospital until about 6 hours after I'd taken it so it was already in my blood. It IS possible as maddock said but it would take a very large amount of tablets and lack of medical attention to die. It's one of the most painful ways to die. I didn't get any symptoms for the first 3 hours but after that it's hideously painful. Symptoms can include, vomiting, nausea, chest pain, stomach pain, shoots of pain in the liver (in the top right area of your abdomen) etc etc. Usually you'd be fully conscious or very dosy during most of the process. It takes A LOT of aspirin to fall unconscious or to fall into a coma. Hope this helped :) It's pretty much the same as what maddock wrote. x x - Keri - x
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