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mmoossyesterday at 6:35 PM1 replyview on HN

> overdose is not uncommon

Anecdotally, I hear about it far more in Internet comments like the parent than elsewhere. How common is it?


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eth0upyesterday at 8:38 PM

Poison center stats, annual, acetaminophen...

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle...

Emergency department visits ~56,000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16294364/

Hospitalizations ~26,000

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16294364/

Deaths ~500 deaths/year

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16294364/

Also, direct from FDA, for those promoting its use with alcohol: "Be aware that severe liver damage may occur if you have three or more alcoholic drinks per day while using acetaminophen." One can infer that stressing the liver prior, then again with tylenol, might be unwise. But by all means, headaches suck. I understand.

Also:

https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/health-professionals-communities/c...

But do not worry. The FDA only specifies that to qualify as risk, requires 'daily' intake of 'three or more drinks'. That is 'daily'. Therefore, it is, if you manage to survive binge drinking several cases of beer and your drinking pattern is null for day1-6, but n amount on day7, perfectly safe to take acetaminophen at will. The documentation does not refute this, therefore it is safe. Only daily drinks, three or more. Binge ok. Only official documentation good true. Inference bad false.

I stand corrected by ctoa!

And to the noble clinical researcher in the house (estearum), I much respec your authorituh. No corruption or monetary influence has ever affected the medical or research field. This I do not dispute. As a chartered researcher, you are an impervious and pure and good person. And honest too. Pharmaceutical industry applies here as well; beyond reproach -- if you're in, you're pure. The notion that they have financial incentives is schizophrenic and despicably paranoid. Anyone who thinks otherwise can have a $200 epipen stuffed in their eye, for free.

I also humbly rescind all my own experience and research. A single I "don't know much" sense from an illustrious professional medical champion was the evidence I needed to retire. Farewell and I shall never think nor speak again. All that cherry pickin really wore me out ;(

And for all:

ScienceDirect S0163834323001317 - A 2023 piece ("Association of regular use of ibuprofen and paracetamol, genetic susceptibility, and new-onset dementia in the older population") that found regular paracetamol use, but not ibuprofen, associated with higher risk of new-onset all-cause dementia, AD, and vascular dementia, independent of genetic risk. But ignore that. Acetaminophen is uncontested by good people. This = bad people https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01638...

*Mess due to comment throttling.

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