Interesting Thought: Is it possible to overdose on Bacta?

[Cassus Akovin]

What if some ding bat with a ludicrous amount of Bacta just had a continuous stream of Bacta course through their body in massive quantities? Is there a threshold at which point the medicine becomes toxic and starts to choke the life out of the individual?

Or does the super miracle drug turn this healing junky into a Bacta Beast with more bacta then blood, and an enviably ludicrous healing factor?

Discuss!

 

[Subject 37]

In canon?

It's never been shown or even really discussed.

As for conjecture? I would guess that eventually the human body would react to it and like most medicines it would at the very least lose potency? I dunno. To be honest with you I think it's always up to the writer of what actual effects are like. In video games we see Bacta and Kolto insta-healing near death. In comics we see it heal huge gashes in a day, and in movies we see Luke float in it for a few days to fix some(i assume) hypothermia.

It's magic healing fluid. Who knows.

 

[Audren Sykes]

Well, we do see in the EU that bacta expires, or that it's only good for so many treatments. Yea, I know, EU has a lot of stuff, but it seems viable. Someone who has it constantly flowing through their system would need to have some sort of pump and replenishment system I would think. Long-term, I wouldn't be surprised if the bacta lost its effectiveness, even if constantly replenished. Build up a tolerance for it.

 

[Valiens Nantaris]

Too much of anything is harmful.

We know little of Bacta's real properties, but it's more than possible to overdose on any drug on Earth such as antibiotics etc.

I would suspect it'd also lose its potency over time or even spawn more health problems.

 

[Jsc]

Character Weakness:

• - Allergic to Bacta y Kolto

 

[Ellie Mors]

What if some ding bat with a ludicrous amount of Bacta just had a continuous stream of Bacta course through their body in massive quantities? Is there a threshold at which point the medicine becomes toxic and starts to choke the life out of the individual?

Or does the super miracle drug turn this healing junky into a Bacta Beast with more bacta then blood, and an enviably ludicrous healing factor?

Discuss!

Probably neither. Luke is shown in Episode 5 fully submerged in a tank entirely filled with bacta. Of course, if you're trying to replace blood with bacta, you'll just end up killing yourself because you.. kind of can't without doing that.

 

[Grrwunhoooll Agaburry]

Yes you can. [member="Triam Akovin"]

The body cant handle that much bacta or kolto!

 

[Barkt Melan]

You probably can, if you do it right. We know that injecting bacta into the bloodstream more than once every 24 hours can cure some major wounds, but additional bacta or kolto beyond that point are wasted doses. However, submerging someone in bacta, as well as applying it to the damaged area, also works. Submerging someone is normally used to treat massive injury, as the bacta will heal what it can and then the patient rests. In the field, shots or patches are preferred to just dumping it on. That said, we don't know the effects of overdosing, although Kolto Injectors are a thing. Bacta and Kolto are weird, and we don't know the effects of overdosing on them or taking too much.

I may be too much of a nerd.

 

[Rusty]

My guess is the easiest way to kill yourself with bacta is to drown in it. I mean, it even gets used as an aerosol mist at one point to ward off possible infection of the Krytos virus. There seems to be no level of toxicity with the stuff, provided you're not allergic to it and it's kept clean.

 

[Jairus Starvald]

What [member="Lisette Kuhn"] said. Bacta/Kolto was sometimes used on people by literally submerging them in it. So unless you are one of those people who are allergic to the stuff, you will probably be fine.

As long as you use it properly, of course.

 

[Grrwunhoooll Agaburry]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

Too much of a dose could probly in my opinion cause cancer. Think about it, Bacta regenerates everything and Kolto does even more. Too much and it could lead to cancer and rapid mutation. Would need an excessive amount but still.

 

[Jsc]

[member="TN-E1-4C"]

Something tells me that neither Disney nor George'y would ever have Magic Space Medicine cause Cancer.

 

[Raien Keth]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

Bacta is heavily relied on, I have over the years used it so much.
It was fun to play a character that bacta just didn't work for anymore *insert plot reason here*, leading to having to seek out alternative methods of healing.

 

[Darlyn Excron]

If we're talking about overdosing I imagine it's possible, but like the same way caffeine is possible to overdose on. You have to be *trying*. Like having so much in you you asphyxiate to death becaue youve very little actual blood in your body and therefore just fail to get oxygen to your organs.

 

[Ellie Mors]

[member="Triam Akovin"]

Too much of a dose could probly in my opinion cause cancer. Think about it, Bacta regenerates everything and Kolto does even more. Too much and it could lead to cancer and rapid mutation. Would need an excessive amount but still.

Cancer is the state of continuously growing, non-dying, regenerating cells. Compare a cancerous cell (3-4 times larger than the average cell, on average) to a normal cell. It isn't caused by over-reproduction, it's caused by the lack of an "end" state in the cell's life-cycle. If anything, it would cause physical deformities - not cancer.

 

[Grrwunhoooll Agaburry]

LOL wanna be a mutant?! bathe in Bacta for years