Methyl salicylate Safety and Toxicity

In authentic form, methyl salicylate is toxic, abnormally if taken internally. A individual teaspoon (5 ml) of methyl salicylate contains 7 g of salicylate, which is agnate to added than twenty-three 300 mg aspirin tablets. The everyman appear baleful dosage is 101 mg/kg physique weight in developed humans, (or 7.07 grams for a 70-kg adult). It has accurate baleful to baby accouchement in doses as baby as 4 ml. A seventeen-year-old cross-country agent at Notre Dame Academy on Staten Island died in April 2007 afterwards her physique captivated methyl salicylate through boundless use of contemporary muscle-pain abatement products.

Most instances of animal toxicity due to methyl salicylate are a aftereffect of over-application of contemporary analgesics, abnormally involving children. Some humans accept carefully ingested ample amounts of oil of wintergreen. Salicylate, the above metabolite of methyl salicylate, may be quantitated in blood, claret or serum to affirm a analysis of contagion in ailing patients or to abetment in an autopsy.