Inflation pills

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Wed, 05/05/2010 - 02:56

Dsmitz

Inflation pills

Hello everyone. We all know how inflation pills are often a common aspect of many inflation stories. But then that got me thinking, it's really not out of the realm of possibilities. Granted I'm not talking about becomming a giant human balloon or anything like that (i'm sure that is safely impossible) but just making ones belly inflate. All one would really need is a substance that would create gas when plopped into water to achieve this. (doesn't sound too tough)

My question is a) do you think it could catch on and b) would you be willing to buy it. I imagine if anyone did develope a pill that could inflate people a little bit there would be a small fortune on the other end of that rainbow. What do you think?

I'm a revolutionary of sorts.

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 06:40

citizensix

Hm, I believe those already exist and are called mentos(although it's soda instead of water) lol.

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 10:26

Dr_Skwirl

This has been floating around the interwebz for a while now, always thought it'd be swell to get my hands on a bottle of these. ^^

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/news/2007/06/dietpill

Wed, 07/10/2013 - 01:18

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violet_brother

Yeah... but imagine that jelly, hard enough to hold a flower upright, going out. Ugh. Unless, it softens as it goes through the digestive system.

Who here is up for INTENSE ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT?! YAAAAAY

Wed, 05/05/2010 - 11:12

Dsmitz

Citizen- I understand what you are saying about mentos but that requires (if my understanding is correct) a lot of coke to be sloshing around to work. Plus once the sugary aspects of the coke have been used up by the mentos it stops working. I'm talking about something that can keep on giving if you desire it by just adding a few swallows of water.
Skwirl- I read that article you posted. Honestly it looks like they might be a bit dangerous to take too many of them. Plus you would need to take at least 3-5 of them to even begin seeing results (like the article says, they only go up to the size of a tennis ball). Still it's a neat idea though.

I'm a revolutionary of sorts.

Thu, 05/06/2010 - 05:51

retrobane

Wouldn't a pill that inflates you be dangerous on the same level? I mean, admittedly the "coke and pop rocks" urban legend is just that, but with enough pressure you still CAN rupture your stomach. ... admittedly that's usually actually how my partner inflates me, but... still. Pills that run off water seem somewhat unsafe in environments that are somewhat aqueous.

AFAIK there's also that technique surgeons use when doing laproscopic surgery to inflate the abdominal cavity and give themselves room to work. After I had my appendix out in March I was still pretty puffy for like three days afterwards. Hell, even when I was ignoring my burst appendix last December I was so full of pus and gas from necrotic tissues I looked very, very pregnant. If it didn't hurt so incredibly bad it might have been a turn on.

Those are both pretty questionable ways of going about it though, and with too much pressure on your organs you'd die or get injured regardless of how you went about it.

Myself in three words? Killer alien vagina.

Thu, 05/06/2010 - 06:41

nineteenthly

I think it can be done but it's complicated to work out how. Gels are a problem because they work by absorbing water, so you'd either have to drink that quantity or it would cause dehydration. You'd also have to deal with that amount of gel inside you somehow, which would take a long time - you'd be distended with gel for a heck of a long time.

My thought is that there should be a capsule full of chalk dust which then mixes with something like carbonated weak acid in the stomach, so you drink a fizzy, maybe lemony liquid, then swallow a number of chalky capsules which then dissolve and do two things: act as nucleation sites for the carbon dioxide and produce their own carbon dioxide as they react with the acid. Twenty grammes of the capsules would yield more than enough to fill your stomach combined with enough of the liquid.

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Mon, 07/15/2013 - 00:29

Bliss2772

I read somewhere that a product similar to the Gel pills has a recall for causing high bloodpressure for having dibutramine in it.

Do NOT Get that product

Mon, 07/15/2013 - 00:29

Bliss2772

I read somewhere that a product similar to the Gel pills has a recall for causing high bloodpressure for having dibutramine in it.

Do NOT Get that product

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