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PSA:

Acetaminophen/paracetamol has a hard stop upper dose limit, above which it becomes extremely toxic.

That limit is 4g (8 “extra strength” (500mg) tablets) in 24 hours (about 2 tablets every 6 hours).

A single dose of 22 extra strength tablets can kill you.

Taking 12 or more tablets per day for more than a week can also kill you (this is about 3 tablets every 6 hours).

Symptoms of overdose take up to 24 hours to manifest, and are fairly difficult to distinguish from other problems. They include abdominal pain (especially right upper quadrant), nausea, malaise, and confusion.

The antidote (n-acetylcystine) must be given within 8hours of ingestion in order to be useful.

After 10 hours the only thing that will work is a liver transplant.

You might think “why would I ever accidentally take so much?”

Well, acetaminophen is in almost everything in the cold/flu/pain aisle. Migraine combos like Excedrin, cold and flu combos like NyQuil, basically anything that says “non-aspirin pain relief”, and anything that’s branded as a fever reducer. It’s all probably acetaminophen/paracetamol.

So the goal of this post is to get you to read the labels on your medications. Because taking taking Tylenol and NyQuil together for a week (like you might if you had the flu) could kill you.

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you trickster, you!

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remember the author of "the boy in the striped pajamas" btw this is him now

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Puritanism has always stood in the way of revolutionary science for as long as it has existed. Now it finds itself seeping even into the dogma of the agnostic. The only cure is to get freaky with it.

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hi welcome to being a usamerican communist trying to get organized. we have trots, org you think is someone else because they change their name all the time (trots), Marxist Leninist Party Founded In 1919 Formerly Aligned With The Comintern (democrats), trots again, patsoc workerists, democratic socialists, ML party (awful), ML party (awful) and Organization that is not even remotely related to class struggle. have fun not crying

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i think too many people operate under the assumption that emotions are some frivilous fantasy of the mind and have no impact on the physical world, which is a cute thought when Humans are an animal that can die from being kinda stressed out

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I got that tarantula in me

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a watched nut never busts. or something. i dont fucking know what you people find funny anymore. 9/11.

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Is big bird a dinosaur

yup!

I actually hypothesize that big bird is a late surviving direct descendant of Deinocheirus