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Hi today i’m going to be talking about acetaminophen my name is olafemi williams and they host pharmacists at my web pharmacists calm so acetaminophen it’s also known by the brand name tylenol it’s known as paracetamol in the in europe and in many african countries so another brand name is panadol we also know it as a pop so today i’m going to be talking about the
Use and the precautions for this medication as the term unifem is commonly used as an analgesic and antipyretic so it reduces pain and it also reduces fever it has little or no anti implement inflammatory properties it can be found in many over-the-counter medications for pain other medications for cold allergies and things like that so it could be only – or it
Could be in combination with other ingredients it’s also found in a lot of prescription pain medications so the question how safe is acetaminophen because of the current pandemic a lot of people have gone to buy a settlement of him because they were told that it’s safe now how safe is it usually it is very well tolerated at the recommended dose now you shouldn’t
Take more than 3 to 4 grams within a 24-hour period now the reason i gave this ring is previously we have always said for was the maximum in a 24-hour period but i did as consumer education training recently that said we should the maximum should be three grams so that means that if you are taking a tablet that has 500 milligrams of acetaminophen you should take
A maximum of 6 tablets in a 24-hour period a lot of people take you know a lot of acetaminophen but we’ll get to that for bred pregnant and breastfeeding mothers it has been found to be quite safe as i said if you take it in the right dose the side effects are also very rare but there have been some reported cases of rashes and some blood disorders now let’s get
To the important part now although acetaminophen is relatively safe it has been found that in the united states it accounts for more than 50% of overdose related achieve liver finnick and approximately 20% of the liver transplant cases so as i said it’s relatively safe but if it’s used in the wrong dose it can be very very fitter than me very very toxic so what
Are the factors that affect the toxicity if you take a high dose and not hit high dose high dose at once he can lead to a fatal liver failure if you take alcohol if you have chronic a whole user it will also increase the toxicity there’s some herbs and medications that will affect the metabolism of the acetaminophen because when you take acetaminophen your liver
Wants to break it down to something that’s toxic and if something else is competing with the metabolism of the acetaminophen that will cause accommodation of the terminals and so even if you are taking it in the right dose and something else is also affecting the metabolism abhi acetaminophen that will increase the toxicity age and genetic factors also affect liver
Metabolism of the acetaminophen as you grow older your body might not be able to handle some of these medications as they should and also some people have some genetic factors that affect their ability to metabolize acetaminophen so that increases the toxicity nutritional status yes if a person is malnourished and that includes fasting for a long time you want to
Be careful taking acetaminophen because that increases the oxygen toxicity so you should take much lower that the maximum dose for those who have chronic liver disease as i said those also those who have chronic alcohol abuse taking acetaminophen you have to really take much lower dose maybe just maximum or three tablets in a day just to be on the safe side now
I the toxicity i wanted to say that sometimes being toxicity we discussed by it’s not intentional people buy a medication that has acetaminophen for pain and then they buy another medication for cold and they end up taking much more as an in event that they thought they were taking so by the time they’ve taken six to eight tablets of the 500 milligram tablet as a
Termination they also go and buy a cold medicine that also has as a terminal thing and even another sleep medication that has acetaminophen and before he made they put to a toxic level and the thing about acetaminophen is it might not even need immediately that’s you are taking a toxic read buddy second or third day it will now have damaged a lot of things and no
This could be very very dangerous now i wanted to talk about as soon as you to benefit for acetaminophen for who vide 19 and other infections so as i said earlier people have rushed by acetaminophen because there are reports that ibuprofen is detrimental to covered 19 patients these are just reports you know we are still on uncharted territory with this kovach 19
So we just wanted to be careful rushing to use acetaminophen now fee it is what you probably want to treat when you have an infection it’s the body’s way of healing itself well there is when you have an infection the body sends a lot of things in motion and fever shows you that something is growing up now the body is also trying to heal itself it’s not just there
It’s also trying to heal itself and if the fever is mild or moderate it’s better not to take any medication just allow the body to keep on walking now if it gets that the fever becomes too high you might need to take medication because you want to avoid and seizures or convulsions but as i said your body is trying to fight the infection so we do not need to take
Any medication if the fever is blue i mean not take any medication but it no need to take any fever reducing medication you can take your antibiotics you can take whatever your prescribed books there is me to reduce the fever allow your body to keep on walking now because if you reduce the body temperature you might sometimes affect the body’s ability to fight the
Infection so now in conclusion so what i said i said to me nothing is relatively safe that recommended doses you should wait until you really need it and be careful to take all the necessary precautions to prevent an accidental overdose i have another article that talked about for pain do you just kill the pain should heal the pain sometimes but that’s a different
Article and then we can find this and other articles at my web pharmacists calm and then just want you to you know lend the safe and responsible way to use medications as pharmacists we really want to make sure that you stay safe and please you can subscribe to my youtube video below so that you won’t miss any of videos as they come out thank you and stay safe
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Acetaminophen AKA Tylenol, Paracetamol, Panadol, APAP – Use and Precautions By Myweb Pharmacist
