What would happen If I took thirty multivitamin tablets in one day ?
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Yes it does cause death when taken in very high doses.Under moderately high doses it cause some unwanted side effects like nausea, vomiting, muscle cramps.Nothing would happen if you took 30 tablets on a sigle day as I pressume because not all the vitamins you are consuming is absorbed by the body, but if you injected large quantities of vitamins it would definitely have immedaite effect.In other cases hypervitaminosis occurs due to cumilative effect.
It is possible to overdose fatally on any substance, including water. Thirty mutlivitamins is not necessarily enough to kill you, but it could still be harmful. Substances can have their toxicity quantified by the LD50, the lethal dose to kill 50% of individuals. As an example, the LD50 for Vitamin C is 11,900 mg/kg (that is, 11,900 mg of chemical per kg of body mass). A 50 kg person would need to take 595 kg of Vitamin C before they would die, an obvious impossibility.Many vitamins and minearls are also quantified by a Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL). The UL for Vitamin A is 10000 IU/day, and my multivitamin has 3500 IU of Vitamin A, meaning that just three of them would meet the UL. By going to ten times the UL, you could probably harm your body. The effects of excess Vitamin A include liver abnormalities, dry skin, and hair loss. Still, deaths from vitamin overdose are extremely rare in the US.The bottom line is that you should not take more than the recommended dosage of any vitamin supplement.
First I will advise you that I am NOT a medical professional. That being said, you will not die by overdosing on multivitamins. The worst that will happen, is severe stomach cramps. Your body will flush out all the unneeded nutrients in the urine stream and you will be fine. However the stomach cramps may make you feel like you want to die...Why would you want to try this silly experiment anyhow??
Yes! While excess amount of water soluble vitamins (such as B and C)can be eliminated from the body through urine, fat soluble vitamins have to be processed by the liver. One particularly bad on is vitamin A, which is why most vitamins use beta carotene (which the body can break down into vitamin A) rather than the pure form of the vitamin itself. Another one is iron. Not only can adults cause themselves liver damage by taking excessive amounts of iron, several children die from iron toxicity every year because they take too many chewable vitamins.
you could ruin your liver, cause kidney failure, over dose is possible on all vitamins. Most of the time you'll just vomit them out. However some vitamins can build up in your system and cause very serious illness, and some times even death.
Several vitamins are toxic at high doses. B6 can cause neurologic damage at high levels. High iron causes a condition called hemosiderosis. I'm not sure 30 tablets would do irrepairable damage, but it's certainly not recommended.
I don't know if this would be fatal, but just like anything else in life. Too much of anything is not good and comes with consequences. At the very least, I would think that it would make you very ill. Why would you want to take so many vitamins at one time? Maybe after reading what the following sites have to say, you'll change your mind about taking so many vitamins at once. I surely hope so! Please to careful with your health.
I don't know about vitamins, but Iron overdoses are actually common (especially among children).
Yes, depending on what the make up of the vitamin is. All are different. I would call poison control to find out exactly how toxic the vitamins you have are. Another good source of info is a pharmacist, you can call any drug store and talk to the pharmacist that works their even if you haven't purchased your vitamins there.
most vitamins end up getting flushed out when you pee.Taking 30 multis in one day would probably make you feel real sick but I doubt if it would kill you.
I doubt one episode like that would kill you, but your urine will be a different color and you might be in some amount of pain. This type of habit over an extended period of time would be fatal however. A multivitamin is a combination of water soluble and fat soluble vitamins. You can imagine the fat soluble ones will be stored in your body until such time as they are expended. Continually supplementing the fat soluble vitamins will eventually kill you. A,D,E, and K are the fat soluble in case you're wondering.
Yes. You can overdoes on ANYTHING too much of a good thing can still harm you... now i dont know how many it would take but even to much water the one thing every one needs to live is harmful when you drink to much
Too much of a good thing isn't always a good thing.
Yes you can overdose on vitamins. The fat soluble vitamins, ADEK can cause hypervitaminosis with fewer than 30 pills. Also niacin a B vitamin which is water soluble can cause the skin to turn bright red, called flushing, and a heat to move through your body. It is prescribed for cholesterol and I had to take my husband to the emergency room from a reaction to a prescribed dose.
When my son was little he opened a bottle of kids vitamins up (yes, even with the safety cap the little dickens) and I wasnt sure how many he ate. I counted them, realized from the amount I had given my other kids during the week (I had bought the bottle about a week before) that it was likely he COULD have ingested up to 8 tablets...I wasn't sure but that was the max he could have taken.The poison control center said that Vitamin A was the only vitamin in the lot of what he took that might pose a concern but because he only took (a possible) 8 of them, that I should avoid anything with vitamin A for a week to clear it out. I think with all the self-medicating people do these days it's quite likely you can harm your body by intaking too much of what might SEEM like a good thing. 30 multivitamins could likely be toxic to your body. It could damage certain organs at the very least.
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