Five Things You Might Not Have Known You Can Overdose on

The worst possible thing that can happen to many people is overdosing on something. An overdose can cause death. Even if you somehow survive, overdosing may cause permanent brain damage and those who overdose are never really the same ever again to say the very least. Nine times out of ten overdose does lead to death and the one time where an overdose does not lead to death out of ten, it can lead to a number of long term health consequences. Brain damage as mentioned, organ damage, and regression of many functions of the body to a number of things.

Most commonly overdoses is really tied to a number of drugs. You hear about overdoses for cocain, heroin, misused prescription pain killers, any number of different drugs can lead to a fatal overdose. With that point in mind, there are a number of other items that you might not have known that can lead to overdose. Here are a list of five items that you might not have known you can overdose on.

Cough Medicine

This actually is not that obscure but it is not as commonly as associated with an overdose. There are many times where we might need a little cough medicine. With that fact in mind, there are a lot of people who use cough medicine for reasons other than treating a cough. Some people use cough medicine as a method to get high and if they do that too much, they can potentially overdose and die. The scariest part is that cough medicine can be bought over the counter, with no questions asked in many places. Abusing it is going to lead to consequences, just like an abuse of prescription painkillers.

Vitamin Pills.

We all know that vitamins are good for us. However there is too much of a good thing. If we overdo the number of vitamins that we take, we can actually elevate certain things in our body past a level of where it should me. While not to the level of taking steroids for example, taking too many vitamins can have a strain on the body and can lead to an overdose. Vitamin poisoning is a very real thing, so no matter how good vitamins are, there is always too much of a good thing. So yes, you can overdose on vitamins.

Sex.

Technically speaking, you can overdose on having sex. The human body has certain limitations that can be pushed. Eventually when pushed too hard, your heart might give out or you may become heavily dehydrated due to body fluids being utterly hammered due to the effort. Just some food for thought the next time you try and pressure your partner for one more time. It could be their one last time. Some people though would prefer going out with a bang.