-- Posted by shibby2 at 6:13 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 I ate way too much today and I have been struggling with an eating disorder for a while and I decided to try this trick I found online. It said to drink hot water with 2-4 tablespoons of salt and I decided to do it. WRONG IDEA. Im babysitting. It didnt work and I cant throw up. I have all of this salt in my body and I dont know what to do and I dont want to put the kids in any kind of danger if something happens to me. I feel horribly sick. Advice PLEASE SOON! -- Posted by Rebecca li at 6:15 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 There isn't much you can do. It's only hot salt water. You shouldn't have done it while you were babysitting. Now you're going to have to suffer through it or call the parents and ask them to come home so you can leave. -- Posted by S K A at 6:16 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 Uah, that much salt isn't going to kill you lol. -- Posted by Unaccepted at 6:17 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 Why would you try and make yourself throw up while babysitting? Irresponsible dolt. -- Posted by Bearsy at 6:18 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 hey calm down I've eaten a whole bottle of salt before and it did make me throw up some stomach acid but I was fine... you'll be fine. -- Posted by ss454 at 6:20 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 Jump around. -- Posted by trinity fosho at 6:21 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 Wow. -- Posted by October Premonitions at 6:23 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 You're a monkey; you'll b fine. -- Posted by ohhithere at 6:27 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 Well, that's KIND OF a salt water flush(which is 32 ounces of room temperature/warm water, two tablespoons of sea salt, so I don't know how well your version will do), but it's not suppose to make you poop...actually have diarrhea, flushing out your system kind of. -- Posted by shadowpool at 6:33 pm on Nov. 8, 2008 That's about 72 grams of salt, which is a lot and you may be in trouble. The lowest published oral lethal human dose for sodium chloride is 1000mg/kg which is 54.4g for a 120lb person. Don't panic, you'll probably be alright, but it might be a good idea to call poison control (1-800-222-1222). -- Posted by Beautifullybroken13 at 10:27 am on Nov. 9, 2008 You'll be fine salt water won't kill you -- Posted by merryberrycherry at 2:26 pm on Nov. 10, 2008 ignore shadowpool!! just DONT do that again.