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> What does ingesting 10g of acetaminophen even look like? 20 not-especially-large tablets
Is this not suicidal behavior?
I've known people who've overdosed on Tylenol and died. I'm not saying that ibuprofen won't give you acid reflux and won't damage your kidneys, but due to I tend to take a lot of ibuprofen and also for take another medication that constricts my arteries and for get a lot of blood/urine work done... and my kidney function is good and despite everything I'm generally healthy. So I would say, like many things, what medi…
If you don’t realize your kidneys are already damaged you might die from kidney failure because of ibuprofen.
The following article showing a link between Acetaminophen/Paracetamol usage and decline in positive empathy is highly relevant here; The medications that change who we are - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-... Excerpt: Mischkowski’s own research has uncovered a sinister side-effect of paracetamol. For a long time, scientists have known that the drug blunts physical pain by reducing activi…
Why should I trust someone who doesn’t test properly but just suspects?
IANADATINMA. Max dose combination (IBU/APAP FDC) can be useful as a substitute in emergency therapeutic situations compared to opiates. Not recommended ordinarily because of liver, kidney, and stomach impairment.[0] Taking ibuprofen with questionable stomach condition may want to consider taking a famotidine adjuvant or duexis [1] or acetaminophen instead. Overdose treatment of acetaminophen poisoning is the stinky N…
I Am Not A Doctor And This Is Not Medical Advice.
(I think?).
Really lovely article. In paramedicine we usually treat 10g of acetaminophen in a 24-hour window as a potentially fatal overdose. That's also why the law in Australia was changed to require acetaminophen to come in blister packs (harder to get each pill out) of no more than 16. At 500 mg, that only gets you up to 8 g if you eat the whole thing, which is still hopefully non-fatal. I always thought a simple over-the-co…
You can still die if you take your idiot-proof Aussie blister packs with alcohol. So it's more an inefficient use of cabinet space. You can overdose on water too, they haven't banned 5-gallon jugs (yet).
Really lovely article. In paramedicine we usually treat 10g of acetaminophen in a 24-hour window as a potentially fatal overdose. That's also why the law in Australia was changed to require acetaminophen to come in blister packs (harder to get each pill out) of no more than 16. At 500 mg, that only gets you up to 8 g if you eat the whole thing, which is still hopefully non-fatal. I always thought a simple over-the-co…
What does ingesting 10g of acetaminophen even look like? I've got to imagine the fatal dose is far, far, far lower with chronic usage. Finding out that people are ingesting grams is profoundly disturbing.
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> What does ingesting 10g of acetaminophen even look like? 20 not-especially-large tablets
Is this not suicidal behavior?
This is some of the most useful information I've received in a while. Like the author, the low overdose threshold of acetaminophen made me avoid it, even though I always take low doses anyway and ibuprofen gives me acid reflux almost every time.
Same here. Great article. I avoid both and stick with naproxen sodium. Any issues with that one? Lasts the longest too.
The following article showing a link between Acetaminophen/Paracetamol usage and decline in positive empathy is highly relevant here; The medications that change who we are - https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200108-the-medications-... Excerpt: Mischkowski’s own research has uncovered a sinister side-effect of paracetamol. For a long time, scientists have known that the drug blunts physical pain by reducing activi…
> Mischkowski suspects that this would also be more difficult to summon after taking the drug. Why should I trust someone who doesn’t test properly but just suspects?
Dominik Mischkowski is a Pain Researcher at Ohio University who has been studying this for a while. The word "suspects" here is statistical research-speak meaning there is a correlation (w.r.t. positive empathy) but more studies are warranted (w.r.t. negative empathy). That is all.
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Or 10 slightly larger ones edit: https://www.24pharma.nl/paracetamol-eg-1000mg-120-tabletten
I’ve pretty much only ever seen them sold at 500mg; are you regularly seeing them where you are sold in 1g form?