Comment on Am I ruining my liver?
Today@lemmy.world 5 months agoIt’s shockingly easy to OD on acetaminophen. I don’t think you are; i just think it’s interesting how a few Tylenol plus a couple doses of cold medicine can be serious.
Comment on Am I ruining my liver?
Today@lemmy.world 5 months agoIt’s shockingly easy to OD on acetaminophen. I don’t think you are; i just think it’s interesting how a few Tylenol plus a couple doses of cold medicine can be serious.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Also a fatal dose of acetaminophen/paracetamol is one of the worst ways to die. If you don’t get treatment within like, eight hours of taking it, you will slowly die of liver failure over the next few days and there’s nothing anyone can do about it. So you painfully waste away in the hospital.
Stories of people who attempted suicide by downing a whole bottle of Tylenol are horrific, because MANY people who attempt suicide regret it after the attempt (as is reported by people who survive attempts). This means that people who attempt suicide this way still die, slowly, painfully, regretting it but unable to do anything about it, over a few days. Having to face their loved ones, knowing how hurt those loved ones are by the action. The idea terrifies me.
Note, I am not a doctor, so take this with a grain of salt. But this is what I’ve read.
philpo@feddit.de 5 months ago
Paramedic here who worked a lot with toxicology patients: You are entirely right.
It’s always horrific.
Today@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, that’s what I’ve read, a day or two of feeling shitty, a day of feeling better and been dead.