How Long Can a Person Live Without Eating?
Thursday, December 24th, 2009 at
10:01 am
rockyarizona asked:
I have mentioned before that my mother is dying, she is very, very thin and at the end of parkinsons disease. She now is eating very little three to five spoonfulls of puree’d food a day if that. and very little water. How long (if anyone knows) can someone survive on that? Your help is once again greatly appreciated.
I have mentioned before that my mother is dying, she is very, very thin and at the end of parkinsons disease. She now is eating very little three to five spoonfulls of puree’d food a day if that. and very little water. How long (if anyone knows) can someone survive on that? Your help is once again greatly appreciated.
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a couple months max, she needs to eat more, at least more water, if she drinks more water, then she has a longer time to live
A person can live without eating for two days
It generally depends on how much water her cells have saved up, as well as how much extra weight the body has set aside. If you would like to prolong life I would look into TPN or CPN. It’s a way to get nutrients to the body through your veins. It’s really up to you thought, but it would give her the things she needs to survive.
Depends what you mean by eating. People can stay in comas their whole lives fed only by IV’s. How long you survive without any food whatsoever depends on fitness and condition.
The rule of “3′s” states a person can survive (on average)
Three minutes without air.
Three days without water.
Three weeks without food.
In extreme cases, I don’t think 3 months would be out of the question. That’s a horribly slow agonizing way to die. Of course puree’d food of such little amounts would only serve to extend that time period. Very sorry about your mother.
Three months is the general consensus for a healthy person to survive without food.
Unfortunately since your mother is ill, I believe she will be able to survive perhaps one month.
It might be best to have her hospitalized so she can be given nourishment intravenously.