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bluerosekatie ([personal profile] bluerosekatie) wrote in [community profile] little_details2025-05-09 02:08 pm

Theobromine/chocolate poisoning in a human-bird hybrid character

Hello!

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I have been looking into chocolate toxicity as it occurs in birds, since I want to write a scene where a human character with significant amounts of bird DNA tries chocolate and regrets it. I'm not planning on killing her, but I do want to figure out an accurate amount of chocolate to give her for it to make sense. Looking at the treatment methods, I would probably want a milder case of theobromine poisoning but enough to be a close call, if that makes sense. How much chocolate do you think she'd need to have, and what would be the proper course of treatment?
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[personal profile] pallas_rose 2025-05-10 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
As a human doctor I have nothing to contribute but wanted to note that I am very glad chocolate is not poisonous to us... I ate a leftover Lindt gold bunny yesterday and it was divine
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[personal profile] full_metal_ox 2025-05-10 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Good for you! You could do with some creature comforts.
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[personal profile] conuly 2025-05-10 05:03 am (UTC)(link)
Theobromine sorta is, actually. You'd just have to eat an awful lot of Lindt bunnies in a very short period of time. Or... actually, I doubt you could eat enough milk chocolate bunnies to do it, you'd have to ingest your theobromine in the form of raw cocoa. I don't know why you'd do that, but you could if you wanted to. (At least in theory. As the article points out, one of the early effects of theobromine poisoning is vomiting, not that you probably wouldn't already feel queasy from all that chocolate.)
Edited 2025-05-10 05:03 (UTC)