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By not reading the label when they take multiple cold and flu remedies all containing paracetamol to speed up their recovery. Or reading articles which say you
by mortov 13y ago
By not reading the label when they take multiple cold and flu remedies all containing paracetamol to speed up their recovery.
Or reading articles which say you need 500 for there to be any risk.
- ars 13y agoOr by misreading articles. Which is also how people overdose - by misreading bottles. The article says 500 bait doses, not 500 pills.
- DanBC 13y agoBottles are usually a lot clearer than this article paragraph. > For some reason, the snakes are almost uniquely sensitive to acetaminophen, the active ingredient in the ubiquitous over-the-counter painkiller. If you can get a tree snake to eat just 80 milligrams, you can kill it. That's only about one-sixth of a standard pill — pigs, dogs and other similarly sized animals would have to eat about 500 of them to get into any trouble. Most people are going to read that as 500 pills, not 500 doses of one sixth of a standard pill.
- vilhelm_s 13y ago500/6 pills is also way more than the lethal dose in a dog or human. And I wonder what exactly a "similar sized animal" is, since a pig is ten times bigger than a dog (20kg and 200kg according to Wolfram Alpha).