Talk:Theobromine poisoning

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Contents 1 I 2 Fatal 3 Toxicity in humans 4 This is retarded 5 WikiProject class rating 6 dogs and eating chocolate

[edit] I

I found this text over here [1]:

They are not allergic, but they cannot metabolize it. Chocolate has caffeine and theobromine in it -- two bioactive chemicals which we have no difficulty metabolizing because we have liver enzymes which break them down fairly rapidly. Dogs don't have very much of these enzymes, however, and cats have none at all, which means that the molecules don't get broken down and rendered inactive. Imagine taking half-a-dozen No-Doz and not being able to work them out of your system for 4-6 days, and you have an idea of what caffeine and theobromine does to cats.

It might be worth writing some facts and the example into the article.

[edit] Fatal

Fatal hyperlink in the main body paragraph leads to a role-playing game. Please fix it! Jay Kay 19:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

Fixed the redirect at fatal instead. Femto 19:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Toxicity in humans

Are there any numbers on how dangerous theobromine is to humans? The TD_lo seems like a bit of a special case, since it implies that 130 grams of baker's chocolate can be toxic for a 70 KG human. This seems to be quite lower than what you might expect from the average human (I have myself ingested comparable doses without any ill effect).--Simen 88 14:02, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

As the article states, the compound is not dangerous to humans because the human body can metabolize it without ill effect. -216.138.38.86 14:08, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

I am removing the information goven for theobromine toxicity in humans until references are provided, as it seems very unlikely to me. Kostja 15:24, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] This is retarded

"A typical 20 kg dog will normally experience intestinal distress after eating less than 240 g of dark chocolate, but won't necessarily experience bradycardia or tachyarrhythmia unless it eats at least a half a kilogram of milk chocolate."

I would experience intestinal distress after eating a half pound of chocolate too... 240 grams of dark chocolate is 5.85 dark chocolate candy bars[2] and 500 grams of milk chocolate is 8.33 bars[3]. Additionally, 500 grams is 1/40th of the dogs total body weight, If the average adult male ate 1/40th of his body weight (81.5kg[4]) in milk chocolate it would come out to 2.04 kg, 4.49 pounds, or 33.94 bars of milk chocolate! --Nbritton 09:34, 25 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject class rating

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[edit] dogs and eating chocolate

I was wondering how many people actually let their dogs eat some choc? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.214.92.177 (talk) 23:25, 19 March 2008 (UTC)