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pseudoephedrine have serious side effects, they are rare but could be fatal
by 2rsf 2y ago
pseudoephedrine have serious side effects, they are rare but could be fatal
- dreamcompiler 2y agoAlso true of aspirin, ibuprofen, acetaminophen, dextromethorphan, melatonin, vitamins, supplements, and practically every other over-the-counter drug that is not homeopathic.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoHomeopathic too - water allergy is a thing.
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- delecti 2y agoHomeopathic pills are usually literally sugar pills, essentially small crummy candy, so not really any water, despite the purported basis of the "technology".
- TeMPOraL 2y agoSure. Sugar allergy is a thing too. If you give me six lines written in a material safety datasheet for the most chemically inert of materials, I will find something in them that could cause some human, in some situation, to die.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoAfter a little bit of googling, it seems that sugar allergy from ingestion doesn't exist. Intolerance is not allergies. I did find that there's apparently one case of anaphylaxis caused by injection of fructose, though it wasn't the normal reaction referred to as allergies.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoWater allergy is a skin condition triggered by contact with water. I don't think that applies to swallowing water. If someone's actually allergic to water, they're going to be reacting all the time since they're mostly water and have to drink regularly to stay alive.
- immibis 2y agoESPECIALLY acetaminophen aka paracetamol aka Tylenol aka Panadol. This is the single drug with the smallest ratio between the effective does and the lethal dose, and it would not be approved today because of that. Oh, and you'll be fully conscious while you're dying and there's no known antidote.
- Aerroon 2y ago>and there's no known antidote. Isn't NAC (N-acetyl-cysteine) used for that? https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537183/
- xienze 2y agoMy Googling says 7.5g-10g is a lethal (acute) dose for an adult. The extra strength Tylenol pills come in 500mg, and they recommend two of those at a time. Not saying it's wrong that the gap between "effective" and "lethal" is small, but at the same time it's hard to accidentally take 15-20 pills at a time.
- cloverich 2y agoI've commonly been recommended 3-4 g per day by Physicians. I take 1 gram as my standard dose.
- dreamcompiler 2y ago1 gram is the standard dose for a full-sized adult with a healthy liver who is not taking the drug in conjunction with alcohol. As to frequency I limit myself to 2 g per day but that's just me giving my liver extra time to recover.
- NikkiA 2y agoNow consider people with memory issues such as dementia where they might have a headache, take 2 pills, then 10 minutes later think 'I have a headache...'
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