# Just How Much Visine Does It Take To Kill Someone? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 3, 2018, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709 "2018-09-03T20:47:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/21 "2018-09-06T14:01:55Z")
> [@Lucas\_Jackson](#): > > Snopes says no. Ha! Thanks for the fact-checking. 😃 I guess in real life, Owen would’ve went home alone. ---
**Author:** ![Fir\_na\_tine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Fir\_na\_tine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fir_na_tine)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/22 "2018-09-06T20:50:57Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > It’s a dandy treatment for hemorrhoids, but don’t shove it too far up there lest too much be absorbed via the rectal mucosa. Somehow I think I could have lived my entire life without acquiring that image. What i would have missed without the SD! ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/23 "2018-09-06T21:02:40Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > It’s a dandy treatment for hemorrhoids, but don’t shove it too far up there lest too much be absorbed via the rectal mucosa. But never use the same bottle in your facial openings afterward. You will likely get a nasty case of stink-eye or brown-nose. ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2018, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/24 "2018-09-06T21:53:21Z")
> [@wguy123](#): > > I watched a documentary which demonstrated how a couple squirts of Visine in a drink will give you terrible diarrhea. Can’t remember the name of the movie but it was co-hosted by Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn. Slate’s advice columnist, Dear Prudence, had someone write in several years ago about his monstrous mother-in-law, and one of her offenses was making a disliked relative sick at dinner with Visine in his food. DP took the letter at face value and advised as to how to deal with such a literally toxic individual. She did not investigate the plausibility of such a poisoning. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/25 "2018-09-07T00:02:36Z")
So did we ever answer the OP? ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/26 "2018-09-07T12:03:29Z")
I’m going with what Oredigger and Quadgop said. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/27 "2018-09-07T12:17:28Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > So did we ever answer the OP? I think we lack hard and precise evidence as to what the minimum amount to kill an adult is. But given how gravely ill consuming 2-3 ml made some toddlers, it would not surprise me to find that 10 ml could kill some adults. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2018, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709/28 "2018-09-07T12:55:15Z")
Damn, that’s frightening [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-how-much-visine-does-it-take-to-kill-someone/820709.md?page=1)