Theobromine/chocolate poisoning in a human-bird hybrid character

[bluerosekatie]

Hello!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone who added details, this is the result! (Locked to AO3 users to avoid AI scraping)

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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[full_metal_ox]

Conversely! She might flabbergast everyone with her capsaicin tolerance, scarfing down Double-Dog Dare chili pepper cultivars as if they were cherry tomatoes. (Wild chiles evolved to spread their seeds by being eaten and excreted by small songbirds; capsaicin is a mammal repellent.)

[bluerosekatie]

Ah yes!! I actually could use that as part of the beginning of the story, baffling Everyone with various reactions to food!

[conuly]

If there is a God of Evolution, or a God of Chili Peppers, the fact that humans love spice must be totally baffling to them.

[full_metal_ox]

A tale of Evolution, Deity, chili peppers, and humans all working in mysterious ways:

https://gallusrostromegalus.tumblr.com/post/706055251905691648