Talk:Theobromine poisoning

message: Fatal hyperlink in the main body paragraph leads to a role-playing game. Please fix it! Jay Kay 19:01, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed the redirect at fatal instead. Femto 19:22, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fatal 

message: Are there any numbers on how dangerous theobromine is to humans? The TDlo 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)
replies: text: 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)

text: The book has the info too, if you just want to reference that. 90.195.179.46 (talk) 18:14, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Toxicity in humans

message: "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 and 500 grams of milk chocolate is 8.33 bars. 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) 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)
replies: text: You could convert that to bittersweet chocolate, which would require maybe half as much of it as dark chocolate. But, that paragraph isn't consistent in the first place, it says 240 g (8.5 oz) of dark chocolate and 25 gram (1 oz) baker's chocolate, the math there doesn't work, dark chocolate is not only 10% cocoa. Undeaf (talk) 22:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand these updates are quite old, but you must realize a dog can be quite the glutton, I fine it quite easy to believe that a dog could eat 1/40th of its wight in chocolate. remember for them there is no difference between good food and bad, all they care is its food, from what I can find, Wolves can eat 20lb in a sitting and with a weight of 190 lb thats 1/10th, and eating only 1/4th that for a fairly close relative seems realistic. maybe it would be easier to say, "if a dog managed to eat its fill of dark chocolate it would be enough to be fatal" though since it has a 4 day life span, its  entirely possible for the dog to take the poison over 4 days and die from that. 202.81.18.30 (talk) 00:25, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: This is retarded

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:17, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: 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)
replies: text: It's usually accidental - the dog eats too much chocolate if somebody leaves it where the dog can find it when nobody's looking. Most people know not to give them chocolate, or only give them a little taste anyway. Nobody deliberately gives their dog a whole bar of dark chocolate for a treat, and it would take more than that to poison the dog. --76.102.243.117 (talk) 18:33, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dogs and eating chocolate 

message: Increase information here is needed here to help judge toxic level for dog I believe. Chocolate usually has the percent coco solids it contains and can be anything from 10% to 95%. (For some reason they don't show Theobromine content?)
Is coco solids a good indicator for Theobromine content?
What percent of the solids is Theobromine?
The miserible maths I am faced with is a dog who has eaten 125 grams of 40% milk chocolate.
125x0.4 = 50 grams of solids times 1.2% (percent of bean from article) is 0.6 grams of Theobromine or 600mg - Dog is 8 Kg giving a dose of 75mg/kg. 
I think that means.... well its more than 16 and less than 300.
It's not helpful.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.140.113 (talk) 21:06, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unhelpful