One needs good kidney functions to use high dose magnesium safely. The liver, not so much.
When one uses oral magnesium supplements, they usually get loose stools before reaching any toxic levels.
Babies and elderly using Fleets enemas, or the PhosoSoda laxative (which was taken off the market) can get toxic faster than people in mid range ages. Most of the poisonings happen to very old and very young patients.
When I researched this toxicity years ago I found very few reports of deaths in fact... under 20 per year.
This is a good link: about hypermagnesemia
http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/246489-overview
But I can't find actual statistics right now for further examples.
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